Tag Archives: open innovation
Innovation posts of the week: Unpredictability is the new consistency
- Business Innovation: Why It Is So Rare, So Prized And So Feared – Forbes
- The knowing-doing gap in innovation by @ovoinnovation
- IDEO: Big Innovation Lives Right on the Edge of Ridiculous Ideas – The 99 Percent
- Drop Innovation from Your Vocabulary – HBR
- Unpredictability is the New Consistency – FrogDesign
- You Can’t Analyze Your Way to Growth – HBR
Innovation posts of the week: 10 common innovation blunders
Creative solutions often are born out of unrelated ideas: Collaborating Across Cultures – HBS
Three Ways to Succeed by Breaking Convention – HBR
The Rise of Radical Adjacency – Forbes
An Innovator’s Guide: 5 Ways to Think Outside the Box – CNBC
Breakthrough innovation starts with breakthrough questions – via @ralph_ohr
How To Hold A Design Jam In 53 Minutes – by @matthewemay
10 Common Innovation Blunders – Blogging Innovation
Innovation posts of the week: Innovation always starts with empathy
- Putting Higher Principles into Innovation Management: How to Be Guided by The Classical Approach to People – by @dscofield
- The challenge of innovation – Ivey Business Journal
- 5 recommendations for successfully implementing distributed innovation and shared value – by @rossdawson
- 10 ways to know you are with a real innovator – by @bankervision
- Innovation Always Starts With Empathy; Look at Zipcar and Even Apple – Co. Design
- Big Firm Innovators: What Large Companies Can Do to Be Just as Innovative as Small Entrepreneurial Ones – Forbes
- How fast and flexible do you want your information really? – MIT Sloan Management Review
- The invisible hand of time: How attention scarcity creates innovation opportunity – by @exponentialedge
Must read innovation stories of the week: Everything you need to know about innovation
Innovation is difficult to do. There are numerous books out there about innovation that teach you a certain aspect on how to innovate yet are clearly written for experts.
Richard Watson put together a well written comprehensive article about innovation that any person can understand. Read it, share it with your team, discuss it and accept that if you want to create anything new you’re bound to fail more than a few times.
There is no magic formula!
- Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know About Innovation* But Were Afraid To Ask
(Fast Company)
- To Change Effectively, Change Just One Thing (HarvardBusiness.org)
- Is Open Innovation really cheaper? (Blogging innovation)
- Become a More Creative Leader (HarvardBusiness.org)
- What is strategy? (Game-Changer)
- Content is No Longer King
(Blogging Innovation)
- The Five Reasons Strategies Fail (Six Disciplines)
Open Innovation for philanthropist’s
Thanks to twitter I’ve been able to connect with a few people in the innovation space and thanks to @philoptima_org I was directed to Philoptima an innovation marketplace for philanthropists.
Philoptima uses an open innovation platform to help grant makers, funders, donors, philanthropists, and seekers to have access to applied research and interventional best-methods for their work on any global community challenges such as environmental, education and health.
The high levels of brainpower that can leveraged from open innovation efforts such as Philoptima’s can help philanthropists better define a problem they are trying to solve and then given that clustered brainpower increase the likelihood of coming up with a solution of higher impact.
Open innovation efforts Beerfest video Dune movie download are abundant now a days, crowdsourcing has been adopted as part of a businesses’ dominant strategy as they’ve seen the power that tapping so much brainpower can yield.
Open innovation is all about connecting with others to find and then create new ideas that have market changing potential.
The time is ripe for your business to engage in open innovation. With recession in full swing the opportunity to collaborate with others in finding and developing new ideas is a strategic move you should be considering a priority.