ISPIM is the leading academic conference on innovation and product development, with over 200 PhD presentations from over 50 countries. Mark Turrell, CEO of Imaginatik plc (www.imaginatik.com), presented some of the underlying concepts behind collaboration at mass scale, the area of crowdsourcing. This presentation was mainly in pictures – so there is relatively little [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 25, 2009
Six-short cuts to innovation… or not…
I came across a recent article on the Six Short-Cuts to Innovation on the BNet UK site, an article written by Jo Owen. In the articlem the author proposes that one does not need fancy innovation tools, systems, but one can by-pass anything looking like hard work by following six simple rules:
1) Copy an idea
2) Solve [...]
June 22, 2009
Myth #4: We Need Simple Idea Management Systems
I am a great believer in simple systems. The ideal solution is one that is so elegant, that any complexity is hidden from end users so that they would never know it was there. As an owner of two iPhones (one for Europe, one for the US), I know this to be true at a [...]
June 22, 2009
Introducing the Sense Gen
I have a swimming pool with a pump that keeps going wrong. Why do I have to go look at the pump to find out it is not working, after it has already failed. And do this while my friend in Berlin has attached the baby monitor for his toddler daughter to an SMS text [...]
June 16, 2009
Myth #3: “We need lots of ideas”
This is one of the most pervasive of the Top 10 Myths of Idea Management, the notion that in order to get good ideas, you need to start with lots and lots of ideas, good and bad. This myth stems from the work of advertising guru, Alex Osborne, in brainstorming in his 1953 book, Applied [...]
June 8, 2009
The 2 M’s: Method & Money – the Core Problem behind US Innovation performance
I was inspired by this week’s BusinessWeek article on Innovation, Interrupted ‘How America’s Failure to capitalize on innovation hurt the economy – and what happens next” by Michael Mandel. Inspired… to come up with some simple fundamental ‘rules’ – the 2M’s – that explain the lack of real, hard fact innovation success in the [...]
June 4, 2009
A Framework for Social Media – on a T-Shirt
Thanks to John Hagel (@jhagel) for sharing!
