2thinknow. Innovation in 2009.

Merry Christmas to all our regular Western & Christian readers, and new visitors.

Innovation Cities 2009.

After adjusting the data file & criteria in 2008, flagship 2thinknow Innovation Cities Rankings are bigger & better than ever before.

Ranking more cities on more criteria, the 2thinknow Innovation Cities Index is a benchmark for what constitutes Innovation in Cities worldwide.

Launching January 09, final rankings will be announced to participating cities in May 09, with the Index published June 2009.

This will be announced, and relatedly an entirely new section of the 2thinknow website will be launched.

2thinknow Online.

2008 was the year the web & social web came of age globally. 2thinknow have spent 2008 experimenting with new forms of communication & publishing.

The dramatically revamped 2thinknow website with a full listing of products & services will be released. In addition, we have finalised our social media partnerships, and those sites will be coming online in February 09.

This Journal.

The purpose of the Global Innovation Conversation is to capture global innovation. Accordingly in 2009 we will be implementing a new format focussed on innovation across the world. More news soon.

More Trends.

2thinknow correctly predicted the economic crisis as far back as October 2007 (describing a September shock event), as well as deep US recession and the peak of the Australian stock market.

Watch for our new trend product offerings, using our pioneering original technique ‘Nascent Trend Analysis’ (which allowed us to make these predictions).

Shortly, before NYE 08, we’ll be posting 2009 predictions. So watch out!

Think Global.

2thinknow think global, act local. We will be reducing our emphasis on Australia & NZ and increasing emphasis on the US, UK & German markets in 2009.

We will in 2009 be moving our web presence to a US data centre, so the link & CGI problems we hear about from time-to-time will be gone (It’s now almost impossible to get decent ICT or back-office services in Australia by US standards).

Eagle-eyed readers would have spotted our new logo & the start of our new branding. The visual idea is “turning the corner”. Neat.

2thinknow’s new logo & branding will be rolled out in very early 2009 across all web & printed materials.

We are also planning to be moving our long delayed back office arrangements to San Francisco, Vienna or Frankfurt sometime in 2009. All the remaining broken links & issues with the website or global telephony will be resolved by January 11 2009, once we use the Xmas season to test & do a final roll-out.

News.

Watch this site for exciting new updates starting February 2009.

Meanwhile – keep up-to-date with 2thinknow, and the issues, 24/7 on twitter – www.twitter.com/2thinknow

Merry Christmas to all & to all a good night!