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Innovation Is Not Clockwork – The Challenges of Innovation Systems
A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system. – W. Edward Deming
Ignoring the interconnections between organizational subsystems causes havoc when innovation is demanded of all areas of the business, instead of one function, and the competition for resources becomes fierce.
Bill Gates’ 2010 Annual Letter focuses on Innovation
Gates: This is my second annual letter. The focus of this year’s letter is innovation and how it can make the difference between a bleak future and a bright one.
2009 was the first year my full-time work was as co-chair of the foundation, along with Melinda and my dad. It’s been an incredible year and [...]
Stupid Wins In The Game Of Innovation – Phil McKinney
Phil McKinney’s latest blog post nails the way in which we are primed to think that creativity and innovation are domains reserved for the “gifted and talented”. So many times our ideas are beaten down by our own ruthless self-censorship, denial and embarrassment-induced conformity. McKinney notes that, “We are a race of innovators – born [...]
Eyes on the Prize – In a CoIN a flexible approach to changing conditions means more wins
In his fascinating research on collaborative innovation Peter Gloor, a Research Scientist at MIT’s Sloan School for Management Center for Collective Intelligence, identified a model he termed CoIN for, Collaborative Innovation Networks. He first named this model in the popular press in his book, Swarm Creativity: Competitive Advantage through Collaborative Innovation Networks. His stated goal [...]
Brand Complacency – Why User Experience (UX) Designers must look to their cultural impact
If there is a future for designers and marketers in big business, it lies not in brand, nor in “UX”, nor in any colorful way of framing total control over a consumer, such as “brand equity”, “brand loyalty”, the “end to end customer journey”, or “experience ownership”. It lies instead in encouraging behavioral change and [...]
I Am Just Like You – Bob Sutton on impediments to self-awareness
Bob Sutton dips into, “David Dunning’s book Self-Insight, which presents a compelling case that there are numerous impediments to self-awareness and that many of these roadblocks are mighty difficult to overcome. I am now on the last chapter, which contains some interesting ideas about how to increase our awareness of how skilled or unskilled we [...]
Working Creativity – Blog by Mark Batey, PhD at Psychology Today
The second of a 12-part series focused on organizational creativity:
OK – a few words on reclaiming creativity from the banal…
We’re lost. We have drifted. The safe shores of lexical precision, descriptive accuracy and the exacting use of words have slipped over the horizon. Etymologists the world over sob silently to sleep each night.
Once, a word [...]
Advisors & Agents – Reflections on the Trust Summit NYC October 23
After the not-so-timely NJ Transit deposited me in Manhattan bright and early this morning I made my way with my good mate Vijay to the Harvard Club for the Trust Summit. This breakfast event brought together the authors (David Maister and Charles H. Green) of one of my professional services bibles, The Trusted Advisor, with [...]
The Young and the Neuro – Implications for Organization Performance?
A recent David Brooks column in The New York Times highlights the rising impact of neuroscience on the way we perceive social psychology.
The series of studies and research investigations being done by members of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society isn’t dehumanizing at all, and it is leading to a host of revelations about how [...]
Where Great Workplaces Start
From the Blog Where Great Workplaces Start – The Keys to Creating an Innovative Organization
Where Great Workplaces Start.
Research seems to suggest that there are two “entry-ways” towards innovation. Both opportunity and necessity/limited resources stimulate creativity. In fact, in addition to new opportunities that present themselves (such as new technology), pressing problems, necessities and distress [...]
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