Category Archives: innovation strategy
the innovation strategy of flowers
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probabilities
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markets really are networks
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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 […]
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 […]
more on the difficulties of prediction
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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 […]
Do strategy and innovation converge under uncertainty?
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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 […]
the future is in filtering
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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 […]
“the rules”
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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. […]
herding the butterflies of innovation
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the three stages of innovation strategy
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Here are the slides + audio for the talk that John gave today at the Brisbane Innovation Network meeting: The Three Stages Of Innovation Strategy View more presentations from Tim Kastelle. There were a few key points that John made. The one that really jumped out for me was the issue of time. This process […]
