Chapter 1: Innovation In The Networked World: New Corporate Mindsets For The Cyber Age

Ian Lin

About the author

Ian B Lin, BSc, MSc, PhD, FIEAust, CPEng

Dr Ian Lin is CEO of Quo Vadis. He is an economic and social strategist and futurist. He researches the latest forecasts, trends and global ideas on the future of economics, society, government, technology, demography and the environment, and uses these as the foundations on which to build the foresight and wisdom that we need to succeed in the rapidly changing world in which we live and work.

Ian has been a consultant and policy adviser to many sectors of government and private enterprise, and uses visual thinking (thinking into the future with imagination about its possibilities) to create scenarios of the future that form new perspectives, perceptions and possibilities for proactive strategic change and continuous corporate innovation.

For over 25 years , Ian was Managing Director of a group of companies with extensive international investment, manufacturing and trading interests. He draws on his bi-cultural heritage and global business networks to help others identify new opportunities and develop cross-cultural strategies for global success.

Ian has also been a professor of engineering at Sydney University and a professor of management at the University of NSW, and acts as a mentor in entrepreneurship to many new businesses, indigenous groups, community organisations and young people.

To find out more about Ian s work and to view selected articles, visit www.quovadis.com.au

Ian Lin can be reached at ianlin@quovadis