Jeffrey Phillips writes a really nice innovation blog called Innovate on Purpose. One of his recent posts concerns the importance of synthesis, where he says: What should be obvious is that one of the most important skills from an innovation perspective is the act and insight of synthesis. This is a real challenge, because most […]
Nancy and I were chatting with Phil Long over the weekend about some of the barriers to innovation that we run into at our university. We concluded that some of the biggest ones come from slavish adherence to the Handbook of University Policies & Procedures (the HUPP). I’m not saying that organisations shouldn’t have rules. […]
If you want more insight into the differences between invention and innovation, check out the Museum of Unworkable Devices! It includes many perpetual motion machines, along with other ideas that will never work. Best of all, it has very good explanations of why the designs are futile. Great stuff! (that’s a picture from the site […]