Categories: Innovation Insights, Innovation Software
Note: this is my first draft and I thought it would be good to publish early to get some feedback before I formalize it into a report. This is an extremely important area – and report – and hopefully will map out the innovation/technology investments for the months and years to [...]
Entries from January 2006
January 27, 2006
Introducing "Innovation Infrastructure" – first draft white paper
January 23, 2006
Is innovation growing as a market place? Proof from Fortune
Categories: Innovation Insights,Innovation ConferencesIn November 2004, Fortune magazine ran an Innovation Forum in NYC for senior executives. It was invite only. They reached capacity at 240 people (I know – I signed up late but the conference was already full).
In November 2005, Fortune ran the conference again in a slightly different format. The two-day event [...]
January 23, 2006
A dishonest take on Ideas are Free
Categories: Innovation InsightsI have been trying to crack a tough idea management problem recently – how to make ongoing programs work. Luckily my research methods have yielded some successful conclusions, thanks to my combination of quantitative data research on masses of customer data generated from our Idea Central system, speaking to friendly clients and unfriendly [...]
January 23, 2006
Assessing Risk for New Products & Projects – the Futility of 100% Risk
Categories: Innovation InsightsWhen it comes to measuring the viability of new concepts, it is standard practice to use risk as a criteria. Risk can be technical, commercial, organizational, risk of competition, etc.
Unfortunately this variable is entirely illogical when working on breakthrough or disruptive concepts. The more concepts are new to the world or new to [...]
January 23, 2006
"Don’t use this tool… because I do not supply it" What the heck!?
Categories: Innovation InsightsIt has come to my attention recently that a few of the leading innovation consultants and gurus are actively encouraging their senior level clients that they do not need to implement idea management systems, or adopt these new best practices. If you have any insider knowledge into the industry, you will probably know [...]
