I’ve just finished reading a nice article on IP strategy and open innovation that was published in the MIT Sloan Management Review last year. It’s worth reading because the authors, Oliver Alexy, Paula Criscuolo and Ammon Salter have been doing research in this area for a while and now have a good corpus of evidence […]
I had a very invigorating meeting with Johnnie Moore while I was in London. We discussed a wide variety of interesting things, but there is one idea in particular that has stuck with me – that it is very important to develop the skill of choosing the best way to communicate your ideas. Here’s the […]
Can universities keep delivering education in the same way that they have been for past few hundred years? The reason this topic is coming up frequently these days is that digital technologies are having an increasing impact on the delivery of education. Consequently, Don Tapscott wonders if the university model of delivering education can still […]
I am always skeptical of ‘everything is different now’ style arguments. If we think about the history of business, we have been trying to manage in a state of turmoil going back at least to the start of the industrial revolution, possibly longer. The introduction of railways, the telegraph, electricity and the automobile were all […]
What’s the best way to measure innovation? Many organisations use only a single measure, like patents, or R&D investment, or revenue from new products/services. The problem with this is that innovation is complex, multi-dimensional, and difficult to capture – especially with only one metric. Take a look at this video from a post about the […]
One of my research partners invited me along to a show last night called Elvis Meets Buddy. It was a great evening, with a lot of interesting discussion of innovation, New Zealand wine and other interesting topics over dinner. Then we went to see the show, which was also pretty fun. It was a guy […]
For a couple of years I was the manager in charge of a self-managing marketing team (I’ll leave it to you to figure out what that actually meant!). My first year with them, we ran the most successful campaign in the history of the organisation. There were many factors that came into play that led […]
I saw Naomi Simson, the founder and CEO of RedBalloon, give a talk at the Future Summit sponsored by the Australian Davos Connection. It was a fantastic talk, and she had a number of interesting insights on the innovation process. This talk gets at a lot of the same issues that she touched on last […]
Veronica Vera pointed me to a great talk by Anil Gupta from TEDIndia. He talks about grassroots innovation, and methods for getting ideas to spread in poorer regions. It’s a fascinating talk: Innovation in developing countries is a wildly unappreciated phenomenon – there are incredibly interesting things going on in places like India, China and […]