James Todhunter collects critical success factors of corporate innovation management, i.e. the things that make a difference, Peter-Anthony Glick added another one in the comments: – Executive Leadership – Skill Development – Innovation Infrastructure – Network for Innovation Mentoring & Facilitation – Internal Promotion – Recognition & Reward for innovation Nice list but let me […]
In a recent BusinessWeek – Innovation of the Week podcast Jeneanne Rae of Peer Insight gives “practical advice on how to redesign common business models using examples of transformations in companies from Amazon to IBM and Boeing”. Download the mp3.
Via LukeW: Guiding Principles of Googley Design: 1. Useful: focus on people -their lives, their work, their dreams. 2. Fast: every millisecond counts 3. Simple: simplicity is powerful. 4. Engaging: engage beginners an attract experts. 5. Innovative: dare to be innovative. 6. Universal: design for the world. 7. Profitable: plan for today’s and tomorrow’s business. […]
I don’t know, at first sight this seems like just another buzzword bingo event, but at close sight “Identity Management – Recognition replaces attention” offers several interesting speakers. Keynote speaker will be Richard Florida, while the accompanying site collects interviews with people like Mark Vanderbeeken of Experientia or Hartmut Esslinger, the founder of frog design […]
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One of my favourite blogs of late is innovation playground by Idris Mootee, always insightful and with good ideas. Here he introduces and conceptualizes “design thinking” as natural instrument to “inspire the exploratory process in the business strategy cycle”, while keeping the “balance between business discipline and creativity + imagination”. He shares this presentation: | […]
Via Dominic Basulto, a nice piece in Wired on design thinking applied to product development processes (“Birth of a Gadget: Inside the Industrial Design Process“): Creating and then manufacturing the Next Big Thing in the world of consumer gadgets is more difficult and complex than you might at first guess. Wired Magazine has put together […]
