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Tim Kastelle

Student and teacher of innovation - University of Queensland Business School - links to academic papers, twitter, and so on can be found here.

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more priorities

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Via Dan Pink – Russell Ackhoff makes a point very similar to Peter Drucker’s: All of our social problems arise out of doing the wrong thing righter. The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing […]

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filtering when you’re small

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In a strange confluence of events, yesterday I: wrote a post about filtering and connecting when you’re a small enterprise; then Clay Shirky wrote about almost exactly the same subject in a post on algorithmic authority; then I ended up talking about the same topic with Paul Moynagh from the innovation consulting group Tough Problem. […]

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lumping helps learning by analogy

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Seth Godin’s post today demonstrates one of the key benefits of being a lumper instead of a splitter – you can learn by analogy. Sure, the industries change, the goods/service ratio changes, regulation changes, names change. Doesn’t matter. It’s all the same. People are people, and basic needs and wants don’t vary so much. Put […]

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connecting when you’re not aggregating

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In a nice piece in the latest newsletter from edge.org, Annalena McAfee talks about the impacts of digital technologies on modern life (check out the whole piece – it’s quite good). Her first interesting contention is that she feels that younger people are more polite, and more engaged with adults than kids were when she […]

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markets really are networks

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For my money, David Weinberger is one of the sharpest thinkers around on the topic of the impact of the internet on business. All three of his books are worth reading (see my brief thoughts on Small Pieces, Loosely Joined). Today on his blog he posted the transcript from a speech he gave to the […]

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implementation

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I just saw this on Merlin Mann’s twitter feed: The guy who worries people will “steal” his idea might better ponder why nobody “steals” his implementation. As I keep saying – ideas are cheap, and implementations are valuable. We need to find better ways to cycle through ideas rapidly. This reminds me of a post […]

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network talk by Mark Newman

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Here’s a really good talk by Mark Newman called Structure and Dynamics in Complex Networks: Structure and Dynamics in Complex Networks If you’re curious about network analysis and have never run across it before, this gives a pretty good explanation of what it is, and some of the things that we can analyse with network […]

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Henry Chesbrough on business models

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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 […]

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priorities

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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 […]

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forms of innovation

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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 […]

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more on open education

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Seb Schmoller has written a post discussing a call to action for creating the university of the future. It came out of a meeting held last month on the topic and it has five key points including: We must enable a culture of sharing. Recognizing that the sharing and reuse of scholarly work is a […]