Category Archives: networks
What Motivates Knowledge Brokers?
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I wrote a post last week about the importance of connecting different groups as a precursor for innovation and the special role that some people have as bridges between disparate knowledge communities where ‘structural holes’ exist within the network between the communities. After writing this post I went looking for more research on the psychological […]
You Have to Break Connections to Get Your Ideas to Spread
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The Economy is a Network
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Information Wants to Be Free?
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An Innovation Manifesto
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There have been a few before, but here’s another Innovation Manifesto: Innovation doesn’t need a manifesto – it needs action. We won’t wait for someone to give us permission to innovate- we’ll just try things out. Innovations have a life-span – we will try to execute ideas that last, and that make things better. Not-Invented-Here […]
Three Blogs I Love
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I’ve spent the past couple of days reading an astonishing number of excellent blog posts. I share nearly all of them on my twitter feed, so if you want a compilation of those, check that out. Today I thought I’d share three different blogs which always seem to have great content. First up is Innovate […]
Building an Entrepreneurial Network
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What is the biggest challenge facing an entrepreneur? There’s coming up with a great idea, which can be hard. There’s finding funding, which is definitely a challenge. There’s getting your idea to work, and we’ve been arguing here for quite a while that execution is critical. But I think that the biggest challenge is actually […]
Think ‘Network Structure’ not ‘Networking’
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The biggest problem with the idea of ‘networking’ is that it is a bad idea. Why? Because as it is usually practiced, networking consists of going out and making a whole bunch of new connections, and then hoping that something good will come of them. It is much more productive to think about your position […]
New Ideas in Old Systems
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The fundamental point that I was trying to make in yesterday’s post is that most of us are facing the same innovation problem: it is extremely difficult to get new ideas to spread within most organisations. We are a bit deceived because we hear about innovation at Google, and 3M, and Apple, and we think […]
Fighting the System
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Today was one of those days when a lot of related ideas just seemed to keep popping up. It started when I read today’s post by George Siemens which discusses the difficulties of changing the educational system. I recommend reading the whole post, but here is part of his argument: I want to resist the […]
I Have No Idea How the iPad Will Do!
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With all the feverish discussion and prognostication about Apple’s preview of the iPad, I want to be the first person online to make this prediction: I have absolutely no idea how the iPad will perform. I’ll go one step further – neither does anyone else. The benefit of making predictions right now is that if […]
