I’m absolutely delighted that Elinor Ostrom has been selected to receive this year’s Nobel in Economics (along with Oliver Williamson). I started reading her work regularly a couple of years ago now, and I am working to pattern my research stream on Innovation Systems after her work on the governance of the commons. Ostrom is […]

I was talking to one of my MBA students today about innovation the public sector. He was having problems figuring out how a government department could be innovative. How about this? How about this? You can innovate anywhere – but you have to want to do it. Even in situations where you face financial constraints, […]

Here’s a great talk from Dan Pink at this year’s TED Conference: The implications for people managing innovation are obvious, and to discuss these in too much detail here would diminish the impact of the talk. So all I’ll say is watch it, enjoy it, and then think about how you might act on it.

Here’s a video from Bob Garfield discussing the main ideas in his book The Chaos Scenario: The Chaos Scenario from Greg Stielstra on Vimeo. He has a lot of stats and a lot of stories that make the point about how all of the media business models have been breaking down recently. His recommendation is […]

Tim and I get to talk to many managers as part of our research and consulting work. One of the good things about doing this is that we get to see common success factors and inhibitors of innovation. A particular tension that exists in nearly all of the organisations that we see is between the […]

John & I are both working on other posts at the moment, but in the meantime, this is hilarious: Charles Babbage & Ada Lovelace use the Difference Engine to solve the Global Financial crisis! It’s a webcomic by Sydney Padua, and it’s fantastic. Padua touches on a lot of issues that I regularly talk about […]