innovation category archives

I attended an interesting webinar this afternoon on Design Thinking by Linda Yaven, Professor at California College of the Arts.

Clarke Ching provides a link to an article / review of Tom Kelly's book, Ten Faces of innovation. It's an interesting collection of personnae that are critical to innovation in teams.

Two surveys came across my eyes in recent days that feel like they are related. Both look at management of bright ideas.

The Innovation Challenge is looking for judges for the competition that will be starting in October. I've done this several times, and am consistently impressed with the ideas that result.

Business Week has an article that talks about A Struggle Between Efficiency And Creativity at 3M. It's a classic problem: tighten down operations and innovation gets squelched.

This Duncan Watts article has been cited by a number of people in my reading circle. The thing that jumped out to me was the comment about how people don't make decisions independently.

Matt Homann dug up a 1997 article on Honda from CIO Magazine that has an interesting description of their collaborative environment. I couldn't help think of "what good looks like" as I read the excerpt.

Chuck Frey points to this great video of Tony Buzan talking about Mind Mapping. It's a five-minute clip that discusses the importance of some key concepts behind mind mapping.

What are the common notions about "lost knowledge?" It turns out the common notions aren't always correct, according to a study from Lori Rosenkopf at Wharton.

Gary Hamel, Thomas Stewart and the Harvard Business Review are asking people to "Imagin[e] the Company of the Future" for a report they are writing.

I've judged projects for the Innovation Challenge the last two years, and it's been interesting. They are looking for some more judges.

Dennis Kennedy points to the Innovation Styles website and a personality test for your Innovation Style.

The British Psychological Society has a blog, kept by Dr. Christian Jarrett. A friend mentioned the recent "Why do we still believe in group brainstorming?" that describes the "illusion of group productivity."

Anil Rathi of Innovation Challenge has interviewed me for their audio blog. I focused on the idea of networking and the ideas that a number of concept plans had for developing networks and community around the services being offered by the sponsoring companies.

I know I am a little late to the game, but I just finished the very enjoyable The Innovator's Solution by Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor. I particularly liked the no-nonsense tone of the book. And I see some connection to theory of constraints, once again.