Linking Innovation to Strategy, part 3
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One of the more alarming aspects of the global financial crisis has been the corresponding downturn in innovation-related spending by firms. Obviously, if you lost your job or your house or your retirement savings this issue doesn’t seem so critical, but I think it is important even so. The reason is that future jobs and […]
Linking Innovation to Strategy, part 2
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One of the critical elements of managing innovation is linking your innovation efforts to your overall strategy. Over the weekend, I talked about how you can use the Strategy Diamond by Hambrick & Fredrickson to help achieve this coordination. Another tool that you can use is the Business Models idea, something that we’ve discussed here […]
James Boyle’s Important Ideas on IP & Innovation
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Intellectual Property rights encourage innovation, right? Right? Well, not necessarily. Actually, people that study this empirically consistently find that the evidence suggests that they don’t. Here’s a fantastic talk by James Boyle discussing his book The Public Domain, which addresses this exact issue: (Thanks to Gerd Leonhard for the tip on this talk) Boyle’s book […]
Linking Innovation to Strategy, part 1
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I just read a great post by John Borthwick which reviews the upcoming book about google by Ken Auletta. I encourage you to read the entire post, as I’m only going to focus on this part of it: What about a corporate statement of intent like Google’s “Don’t be evil”? “Don’t be evil” resonated with […]
Lessons from Babbage’s Difference Engine
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Three Horizons of News Innovation
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Journalism is a fascinating business model innovation case study these days – at least if you’re on the outside looking in. Journalism must exist in some form or another for democracy to work, yet newspapers and other journalism outlets are struggling terribly right now. The availability of inexpensive digital content has made it much harder […]
Three Informal Project Milestones
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How can you tell how well a project is going? Many types of projects have formal milestones that help you track your progress, and there are many tools available that enable project management. However, in our research group meeting yesterday, I realised that there are some informal project milestones that are just as important to […]
Network Analysis Resources
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I have run across a few useful resources for network analysis recently, including: Mini-Course on Networks: Howard Rheingold has put together a very nice mini-course on networks and network analysis. It includes two videos where he describes the history of networks and some of the basic concepts of network analysis, links to other videos, a […]
The Problem with Measuring Innovation
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The problem with measuring innovation is that you can’t measure innovation. This makes it a difficult thing to manage. Now obviously, organisations figure out ways to measure how innovative they are – but they usually doing it by finding metrics that approximate some part of the innovation process. The fact that our metrics are all […]
What are Innovation Networks, and Why Should You Care?
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I did some media training last week, which was interesting. In the course of the morning, I had to think about the main messages I would like to communicate to people about my research. The key one is that the networks that people form within innovating groups have an enormous impact on how successfully the […]
How to Deal with Complexity
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Is google making us stupid? No. We keep hearing the argument that relying on technology makes us less smart somehow. Plato was probably the first person to make this argument. His target? Writing – his argument was: So, too, with written words: you might think they spoke as though they made sense, but if you […]
