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Collaborative Innovation

Posted on Agosto 31st, 2008 in Uncategorized by german

 

The Olympics and party conventions give me hope that we can build on the desire to be a part of something larger than ourselves to unite and improve.  Leanne Carlson defined innovation as the art and science of how we evolve for the future (Carlson LK. 2006. Innovating for the Future. The Physician Executive. 33(6):30-34).  Innovation requires:

  • Focus and will
  • A supportive culture, celebrating learning rather than blame
  • Blend of structure and self-organization
  • Willingness to respect what
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Making Innovation Work in Green Marketing

Posted on Agosto 31st, 2008 in innovation by german

 

Show 187 of The Engaging Brand leadership and marketing podcast is ready just for you. To subscribe or listen on your PC now - both for free, you don’t need to download anything - all explained at the end of the post. Don’t forget to try GoToMeeting for your 30 day free trial!

Today I talk with Rob Shelton who is an expert on… Continue reading

How does gene duplication allow evolutionary innovation?

Posted on Agosto 31st, 2008 in innovation by german

Genes with new functions do not magically appear from nowhere, or so most scientists assume. (If I thought that evolution, perhaps especially human evolution, was being guided by some supernatural individual or group, I would be looking for such “genes from nowhere” rather than whining that theories with no evidence should get equal time. Not that they want schools to teach all theories that lack evidence, of course, just

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Innovation Is Relative

Posted on Agosto 31st, 2008 in innovation by german

Scott Berkun, formerly engineer at Microsoft, delivered a talk on Google regarding the nature of innovation.

Our conventional ideas on innovation: that the best ideas defeat inferior ideas, that future innovations are superior or more progressive to past innovations, are all myths.

Berkun challenges all these preconceived notions about change and innovation, and also relates innovation with mythology and the tendency of ideas to evolve in popularity. The nature of innovation is… Continue reading

BIF-4 Collaborative Innovation Summit

Posted on Agosto 31st, 2008 in innovation by german

 

It’s business story-telling on steroids. No PowerPoints allowed. That’s the agenda for this year’s—the fourth in an ongoing series—Collaborative Innovation Summit put on by the non-profit Business Innovation Factory in Providence, RI. One co-host is Xconomy board member Bill Taylor, bestselling author of Mavericks at Work. You can also hear Xconomist John Abele, who’ll speak about the hunt for his father’s WWII sub, the USS Grunion, along… Continue reading

How to build new businesses: creativity, innovation and marketing

Posted on Agosto 31st, 2008 in innovation by german

 

Workplace social networks, if managed, can foster the mixing of talent, ideas that fuel innovation

Big companies are good at innovating within silos, but woefully bad at combining creative energies across divisions to build new businesses. Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Cohen once asked: How is it possible that Time Warner owned both Warner Music and AOL and didn’t create something like iTunes? The problem, we believe, is structural: Business-unit boundaries exist… Continue reading

European newspapers thriving on quality, innovation

Posted on Agosto 31st, 2008 in innovation by german

 

Punchier headlines. Shorter stories. Bigger photos. None of them have stilled the death knell for U.S. newspapers.

With readers migrating to the Web and ad revenue failing to keep up with the shift, American editors might look across the Atlantic for tips on how to stave off their demise.

London, for example, is bursting with several thriving competitors, boasting at least five serious newspapers and four tabloids. In Berlin, Europe’s

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