jorge barba

Hello my friend, welcome to the Game-Changer! A blog about innovation, new ideas and how the world is changing. I’m your host Jorge Barba, an Innovation Insurgent. You’re here because you’re interested in being or becoming a Game-Changer in everything you do. Let’s do it!

I’m CEO of Netek and I’m also the President of the Baja California Innovation Cluster.

I also work with startups and corporations. Need help reinventing your innovation capability, developing new growth platforms and revenue streams?

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AI Unlocks Every Kind of Innovation

Some people believe technology is the only way to innovate. It’s not. There are many ways to innovate. Consider the innovation radar MIT published over a decade ago; it can help companies identify opportunities to innovate across 12 dimensions: offerings, platform, solutions, customers, customer experience, value capture, processes, organization, supply chain, presence, networking, and brand.

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Is This Your Best Piece of Work?

Anyone can use their favorite LLM to produce content now. A report. An article. A strategy document. A presentation. Give it a prompt, wait a few minutes, and you have something that looks finished. That’s creating a new problem.

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Playing Not to Lose Is How You Lose

When was the last time you questioned the status quo? When was the last time you stopped, looked at how your organization works, and asked, “Why do we still do it this way?”

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Creativity, entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership

Why I’m Bullish on Humans

by  in Creativity, entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership
There’s been a lot of conversation about the existential risks posed by AI. Some of it is warranted. We should think about worst-case scenarios. We should pressure-test what could go wrong. We should think seriously about alignment, control, incentives, concentration of power, and what happens when systems become more capable than the people using them.