A while ago Tim wrote an excellent post on the difference between networking and network structure. It’s one of my favorite posts and it’s among the most popular on the blog. Just to recap the main idea from that post – some network structures are better at supporting innovation and we need to understand how […]
How do we decide what our innovation strategy should be? Jeffrey Phillips says that we don’t need an innovation strategy at all, we just need a strategy, and it should have innovation embedded within it. That’s pretty consistent with what I’ve said here before as well when I talked about four different ways to integrate […]
Today, just for fun, I’ll let you assemble the story yourself from the collected parts. First up – Tom Fishburne says: I blogged a few months ago that companies can be classified either as Rule Makers, Rule Followers, or Rule Breakers. Most companies duke it out amongst themselves as Followers, trying to gain share against […]
There is a big problem that organisations often face: they want to be innovative, but they also want to minimise risk. This creates a certain amount of tension. If I had to pick the number one thing that I would recommend to organisations that are trying to become more innovative, it would be this: experiment. […]
In this week’s class we talked about Jane McGonigal’s TED talk on using games to save the world. It’s one of my favourite recent talks, and it’s worth a watch: Her key idea is that we can harness the efforts put into online games can to solve real-world problems. Her latest game is called Evoke, […]
Our post and press release on how accounting kills innovation has generated some really nice debate. Although I had a lot of criticism from my academic colleagues in accounting and finance, most of that was from people who hadn’t actually read the research paper. One of the biggest objections was that innovation academics like me […]
I already told you about Ada Lovelace Day – it’s the day for everyone to write blog posts celebrating inspiring women in science and technology. As I mentioned, there are a ton of good candidates doing great work these days. Since there are likely still a bunch of hours left in March 24 wherever you […]
Three things came together to make me think of this post: I regularly get feedback from my research interviews that people really enjoy them. That’s interesting, because I’m a lousy interviewer. After the last round, we got some feedback from our contact at the firm who said that he had received thank-you emails for setting […]
I often talk about Ada Lovelace in my public talks and in class. In the mid-1800s, she was the world’s first computer programmer – writing code to run on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine. Like Babbage, she was well ahead of her time, and an important figure in the history of computing. Which is why Ada […]
