{"id":4728,"date":"2009-05-31T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/innovation-creativity-within-financial-constraints-is-the-key\/"},"modified":"2009-05-31T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T13:39:00","slug":"innovation-creativity-within-financial-constraints-is-the-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/innovation-creativity-within-financial-constraints-is-the-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation:  creativity within financial constraints is the key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael-Eisner\" border=\"0\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8356fb76c69e2011570b3a178970b \" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/images\/6a00d8356fb76c69e2011570b3a178970b-800wi.jpg\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 4px\" title=\"Michael-Eisner\" \/>So with all the talk about falling conference attendances, it&#39;s clear that people are still game for good events, but are simply being more selective about which ones they choose to attend&#0160;this year.&#0160; After the&#0160;success of the recent <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/2009\/05\/sson.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Shared Services &amp; Outsourcing Network show<\/em><\/a><em>&#0160;in Budapest, I had the good fortune to be at AMR Research&#39;s Supply Chain Conference in&#0160;Scottsdale AZ this&#0160;week, which attracted&#0160;650 senior-level supply chain, finance, operations and IT executives, many of whom wanted to talk about sourcing&#0160;issues.<\/em>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>The one opportunity I did have to escape the analyst meeting room was to see former Disney CEO <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Eisner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Micheal Eisner&#39;s<\/a>&#0160;keynote speech (pictured), where he talked about <em>creativity under financial constraints being the key to success today<\/em>.&#0160; <\/p>\n<p>In order to demonstrate this, he played us&#0160;the now infamous &quot;sword&quot; scene from <em>Raiders of the Lost Ark:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1cdYrBsWhtk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1cdYrBsWhtk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>According to Michael Eisner, Harrison Ford was having a few stomach issues on that day of filming and kept rushing back to the hotel, and with the sun setting, the crew were concerned that they would have to wait until the following day to complete the scene.&#0160; With production costs running at $100K a day (not chump-change in those days), Harrison just got out his gun and shot the guy&#8230; now that&#39;s innovation \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Always happy to hear any more examples of creativity&#0160;that&#0160;saved&#0160;the day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So with all the talk about falling conference attendances, it&#39;s clear that people are still game for good events, but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,88],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[19],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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