Stefan Lindegaard has a post with links to a lot of good innovation related material, including an interview with Henry Chesbrough. The Chesbrough interview is terrific. He is best known for his research on open innovation, but a central part of that has been his work on business model innovation, which is the focus of […]
Here’s a great quote from Peter Drucker: There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. We often get asked about how innovation relates to efficiency programs like lean and six sigma. Obviously, ideas that you implement within these programs that improve efficiency are often innovative. And we […]
One of the points that I consistently stress in my innovation classes is that there are many forms of innovation, and that people and firms need to think about more than simply product innovation. This idea goes back at least to Schumpeter and his five forms of innovation: New product or service New method of […]
Today I ran across this talk from Mark Buchanan: Prediction and its Limits in Socio-Economic Systems It’s from the International Workshop on Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems that took place in Zurich last May. It provides excellent support for the main point in John’s recent post – that the economy is a complex […]
I got a new mobile phone this week, and I’ve spent a fair bit of the time since then playing around with different programs and applications that are available for it. The killer app in smart phones for me is gps tracking. Using google maps, getting turn-by-turn directions and geotagging photos and notes are all […]
Last week I was a panelist on an event hosted by CEDA on the topic of strategy after the global financial crisis. One particular theme that came out of the discussions was a reduced reliance upon prediction and planning. This is significant becuase traditionally, this is what strategy is all about. There was some recognition […]
I love the story of the first message to cross the internet: Forty years ago today, a team led by Leonard Kleinrock typed the “Lo” of “Login” into a Stanford computer, which promptly crashed before the command could be entered. But because Kleinrock’s team was sending this message from a UCLA machine, he had just […]
Roland Harwood has an interesting post today on the always worthwhile NESTA Connect blog in which he discusses eight issues that firms run into when trying to manage open innovation. While you should definitely read the whole post, one idea that jumped out at me is this: Misunderstand the difference between hierarchies and informal networks […]
Yesterday we had evidence of the importance of connecting, and today we’ve got some for filtering. Dominic Basulto points to a great graphic commissioned by Wired magazine and made by Density Design on his terrific Endless Innovation blog. Here’s the small unreadable version: And you can see the full version here. The map is based […]
