Categories: Innovation Insights, Innovation Conferences
One of the best sources of information on innovation is Chuck Frey’s InnovationTools web site. I recently caught up with Chuck at the Innovation Convergence conference in Minneapolis. We shared spicy Thai food, and deep thoughts on the world of innovation.Chuck recently shared the interview on Fortune Magazine’s new Business Innovation [...]
Entries from October 2005
October 31, 2005
Fortune Innovation Blog & Conference – Interview with Mark Turrell
October 17, 2005
A Fool with a Tool is Still A Fool
Categories: Innovation Insights
At the recent InnovateEurope conference I saw a fantastic slide from Howard Smith, CTO at CSC, entitled “A Fool with a Tool is Still A Fool”. His underlying theory, based on extensive practice within CSC and within client organizations, is that innovation is a reliable business process, and that there are methodologies, such [...]
October 2, 2005
Book Review: The Slow Pace of Fast Change – Bhaskar Chakravorti
Categories: Book Reviews
Good Innovation books typically break down into two categories: consolidators and original thinkers. The consolidators create overall frameworks for innovation and make the overall topic more digestable to the general reader. The original thinkers share new knowledge and insights, focusing on much narrower topics, such as Open Innovation (Henry Chesbrough), Disruptive Innovation (Clayton [...]
October 2, 2005
Book Review: Winning through Innovation – Tushman & O’Reilly
Categories: Book Reviews‘Winning Through Innovation’, first published in 1997, was one of the first books to highlight the importance of innovation as a strategic process, laying bare the failures of ad hoc approaches, and providing a framework for successful innovation. Tushman and O’Reilly highlight the importance of congruence (organizational fit) both as a benefit and [...]
October 2, 2005
Perfect Sunday Read – a thought-provoking Innovation Blog
Categories: Resources / LinksI came across a fascinating blog on innovation this weekend – the Innovation Blog – a collection of intriguing ideas and concepts that relate to innovation and product development. I most like the research snippits that make you think (just a little), such as:
- people treat smells differently depending on the words [...]
