How the Travel Industry Defines Innovation — Skift MeetingsIQ
Photo Credit: MIT Media Lab was host venue for this week's MIT Design Driven Innovation 2016 conference. MIT Media Lab
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Companies from Airbnb to Marriott are implementing innovative operational strategies based on the need to be fluid and adaptable as the travel marketplace continually evolves.
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The MIT Design Driven Innovation 2016 conference wrapped up yesterday at the MIT Media Lab in Boston. John Sculley, ex-CEO of Apple and Pepsi; Charles Johnson, director of innovation at Puma; and Matthew Von Ertfelda, head of innovation at Marriott, were just a few of the speakers who discussed their respective brand philosophies on disruption. Sculley said that when he was working with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates in the 1980s, they never talked about money and other realistic concerns. They talked about changing the world.
Nicholas Negroponte, cofounder of MIT Media Lab, and founder of One Laptop per Child, described in his keynote why he's always amazed when students say, "That's not realistic." They don't
