Innovation vs. Inertia: Lessons Learned in Health Care & Other Industries featuring Steve Case, Chairman & CEO, Revolution, and Cofounder, America Online; with Thomas Goetz, Executive Editor, WIRED.
Disruption happens. A technology breakthrough. A shift in consumer demand. A rise, or fall, in a critical market. Any of these can rewrite the future of a company -- or a whole industry. If you haven't faced this moment, you will soon. It's time to change the way you run your business. Now what?
How you decide to respond is what separates the leaders from the left behind. Today's smartest executives know that disruption is constant and inevitable. They've learned to absorb the shockwave that change brings, and can use that energy to transform their companies and their careers.
At the second WIRED Business Conference, presented in partnership with MDC Partners, you'll hear from industry leaders on how to respond to change, and how to use it to your advantage. Through one-on-one conversations between speakers and Wired editors and interaction with the speakers, you'll see how disruption is transforming the way smart organizations make decisions, keeping them on a steady path to growth.
Bio
Steve Case
Steve Case is Chairman & CEO of Revolution and
Cofounder of America Online.
As cofounder, chairman, and CEO of America Online, Steve Case played an important role in the development of the Internet. AOL brought millions of Americans their first connection to the Internet and helped drive adoption of the new medium. After a decade of rapid growth, AOL acquired media giant Time Warner in 2000; Case served as chairman of the combined company until 2003.
In 2005, he launched the private investment firm Revolution. The company aims to build consumer-oriented businesses that provide people with more choice, control, and convenience in their lives. Revolution's activities are focused in the health and wellness, resort, and digital sectors. Case is also chairman of Exclusive Resorts, a luxury destination club financed by Revolution. He chairs two nonprofit organizations, the Case Foundation and Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure. He was a founding organizer of Business Strengthening America, has served as vice chair of the Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy, and was honored with the National Mentoring Partnership Leadership Award.
Thomas Goetz
Thomas Goetz is executive editor of WIRED magazine and author of the book The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine. Since Goetz joined WIRED in 2001, the magazine has been nominated for 18 National Magazine awards and has won nine times, including the top award for General Excellence three times. His cover stories at WIRED have been selected for both the Best American Science Writing and the Best Technology Writing anthologies. Before joining WIRED, Goetz held posts at the Village Voice, then at the Wall Street Journal, and The Industry Standard.
Extent of continuing physical, emotional, mental, and social ability to cope with one's environment. Good health is harder to define than bad health (which can be equated with presence of disease) because it must convey a more positive concept than mere absence of disease, and there is a variable area between health and disease. A person may be in good physical condition but have a cold or be mentally ill. Someone may appear healthy but have a serious condition (e.g., cancer) that is detectable only by physical examination or diagnostic tests or not even by these.
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