Innovation 1.0: A guy in his garage Innovation 2.0: A team in their research lab Innovation 3.0: People – dispersed….. everywhere! And we’re going to skip right over Innovation 4.0 – Innovation 6.0 to introduce the best, most up-to-date, most exciting version of Innovation yet – yes, that’s right: Innovation 7.0!! If you’re using Innovation […]
I ran across this story earlier this week about Ludwig Wittgenstein in an otherwise awful piece by Paul Monk in The Australian: A student says to Wittgenstein, “You know, it’s really not surprising that people believed for so long that the sun revolves around the earth, because it looks like that is what happens.” To […]
This isn’t going to be one of those rants against ‘beancounters’. We have actually collected and analysed data which tells us that traditional accounting and valuation methods will damage innovation performance. To be fair to my accounting collegues (some of my best friends are accountants) the main conclusion from our study is that we need […]
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 […]
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 […]
Here are some thoughts on ‘design-driven innovation’ versus ‘design as making things look cool’: Design-Driven Innovation – Nespresso from Tim Kastelle on Vimeo. And here are some related points: We often think of design as making stuff look cool, but when we talk about design-driven innovation, we’re actually talking about creating new categories of goods […]
There were some good (all reactions are good!) reactions to the blog post on the problems of using patent counts to measure innovation so I thought I would follow up with some evidence on patents and intellectual property (IP) strategy. Conventional thinking is that any IP generated within an organization should be carefully guarded by […]
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -F. Scott Fitzgerald That’s the quote with which Richard Lester and Michael Piore open their outstanding book Innovation: The Missing Dimension. The opposing ideas that they discuss throughout […]
One of the best ways to build connections within the economic network is to be an authority – and since revenue often follows connections, this is a useful strategy to consider. How do you become an authority? I’ve run across a couple of suggestions recently. First up – this from the JournaMarketing Blog (I’m not […]
