Comments on: albatrosses v. salmon

By: Library clips :: Enterprise 2.0 : Pilot or experimentation? :: May :: 2010

Library clips :: Enterprise 2.0 : Pilot or experimentation? :: May :: 2010 — Mon, 10 May 2010 21:31:16 +0000

[...] The decision-making doesn’t have to be bottom-up, perhaps management agree with a no-cost Proof of Concept as part of the strategy, this is a win for them as they are able to experiment and fail for free, something that was not possible in the enterprise tool arena a couple of years ago. Free hosted sites like Yammer for micro-blogging, and others for blogging, wikis, bookmarking, etc…make all this possible…a move from the Albatross to the Salmon. [...]

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Fri, 07 May 2010 06:01:03 +0000

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By: You’re too Scared to Innovate « Book Riffs « Innovation Leadership Network

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:47:09 +0000

[...] Try a lot of ideas at once so that you don’t get too attached to them – if you only have one idea, the stakes are much higher, even for a cheap and quick [...]

By: You Don’t Need Any More New Ideas! « Innovation Strategy « Innovation Leadership Network

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:21:20 +0000

[...] so did Braden Kelley on Blogging Innovation. I’ve tried to tell you about it too, using both analogies and statistics. The secret idea of innovation is [...]

By: the hardest part of innovation « Innovation Strategy « Innovation Leadership Network

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:59:25 +0000

[...] John and I have talked about the dangers of over-focusing on idea generation at the expense of execution, so [...]

By: implementation « Filter « Innovation Leadership Network

implementation « Filter « Innovation Leadership Network — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:14:38 +0000

[...] I keep saying – ideas are cheap, and implementations are valuable. We need to find better ways to cycle [...]

By: but that was MY idea! « Innovation « Innovation Leadership Network

but that was MY idea! « Innovation « Innovation Leadership Network — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:16:31 +0000

[...] generation of variety. So new ideas are important. However, I also think that we frequently place far too much emphasis on the idea part of that process, when in fact selection and replication are the parts that are often more important. They are [...]

By: talks - invention, innovation & business models « Innovation Leadership Network

Tue, 26 May 2009 02:51:34 +0000

[...] related to the posts I’ve made here about the relative importance of ideas (first post, second post). The key takeaway point is that it is not enough to come up with a good idea. From an evolutionary [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:43:38 +0000

I think that’s probably right Amber. Like (I think) I said in the comments last week, for me writer’s block is a case of too many ideas not too few – and just not knowing how to make the ones I’ve got work. So just plowing ahead actually is a really good way to address the issue then…

By: Amber

Amber — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:45:28 +0000

While I see now how I mistook your original point, it still had me thinking on forcing new ideas when when husband and I went out to a reading by George Pelecanos from his new book. During the questions period, someone did ask how he dealt with writer's block and he just said that he keeps writing, no matter what. Just putting words on paper made him productive. I thought that matched well with your conclusion that the more ideas that you put out, the more ideas you have. I think that proves true for all fountains of creativity.