There have been a few before, but here’s another Innovation Manifesto: Innovation doesn’t need a manifesto – it needs action. We won’t wait for someone to give us permission to innovate- we’ll just try things out. Innovations have a life-span – we will try to execute ideas that last, and that make things better. Not-Invented-Here […]
I’ve spent the past couple of days reading an astonishing number of excellent blog posts. I share nearly all of them on my twitter feed, so if you want a compilation of those, check that out. Today I thought I’d share three different blogs which always seem to have great content. First up is Innovate […]
Here are some thoughts on ‘design-driven innovation’ versus ‘design as making things look cool’: Design-Driven Innovation – Nespresso from Tim Kastelle on Vimeo. And here are some related points: We often think of design as making stuff look cool, but when we talk about design-driven innovation, we’re actually talking about creating new categories of goods […]
There were some good (all reactions are good!) reactions to the blog post on the problems of using patent counts to measure innovation so I thought I would follow up with some evidence on patents and intellectual property (IP) strategy. Conventional thinking is that any IP generated within an organization should be carefully guarded by […]
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -F. Scott Fitzgerald That’s the quote with which Richard Lester and Michael Piore open their outstanding book Innovation: The Missing Dimension. The opposing ideas that they discuss throughout […]
One of the best ways to build connections within the economic network is to be an authority – and since revenue often follows connections, this is a useful strategy to consider. How do you become an authority? I’ve run across a couple of suggestions recently. First up – this from the JournaMarketing Blog (I’m not […]
We often think of art as being innovative by its nature – but what about curating art? A couple of weeks ago Nancy and I went to a talk Amanda Pagliarino, the Queensland Art Gallery’s Head of Conservation. She was discussing some the challenges that her team faced in getting all the exhibits ready for […]
What is the biggest challenge facing an entrepreneur? There’s coming up with a great idea, which can be hard. There’s finding funding, which is definitely a challenge. There’s getting your idea to work, and we’ve been arguing here for quite a while that execution is critical. But I think that the biggest challenge is actually […]
One of the major themes running through the blog is that innovation is a complex process made from different activities. Tim and I have pushed this pretty hard because innovation is often confused with invention (the generation of an idea resulting in a new physical process or thing). There is a lot to be gained […]
