Tag Archives: Innovation

Mark’s Innovation Expertise – 24 Things to Explore

I recently had a follow-up conversation with a judge at the Hult Prize and we got talking about innovation. My current work has been on Scaling, now put into book format (available at startscaling.com). Scaling is highly relevant for innovation. I consider innovation to be the process of developing new things that deliver value. The key is delivering value. […]

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Collaborative problem solving – but let’s try not to obsess about ‘free’

http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/229727/35956092 I came across a blog posting by Dave Tebbutt, a technology analyst writing about collaboration and social computing. I read his comments on doing what Imaginatik does with great interest, particularly in focusing on the ‘use of free tools’ angle. Here is my response, saved on his blog as a comment: The funny thing […]

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Reviewing an online collaboration initiative – the IBM Partner Jam

http://acceleratingbusinessvaluejam.ning.com/forum An interesting experiment in what NOT to do. Normally I would not write about something which my company might just about be involved in In this case I am prompted to share my thoughts based on visiting the web site for the first time in a couple of months, and seeing some pretty damning […]

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Innovating in a Recession? Time for Depression.

Innovating in a recession. Or a depression. It is enough to make anyone depressed, and sadly in my view, rightly so.   When economies hit recession, what do firms do? They cut back. They cut back on advertising, training, marketing, IT and, of course, innovation. Who cares about a brand new product line that can […]

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Geoffrey Moore @ WEF Innovation 10

It is 845 am in Palo Alto and I am just about to be interviewed by GM on innovation in practice. My fellow interviewees are from Innocentive and Salesforce.com. My comments will be on: Is innovation art or science – in my view, we can now make it more like a science The secrets are […]

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World Economic Forum Innovation 100 meeting in Palo Alto

I am having an excellent time contributing at the WEF event on innovation. This morning’s breakout session was on clusters, regional areas where there is high levels of connected innovation. Our group, led by Navi Radjou of Forrester Research, considered an optimistic scenario for Bangalore in India. I just finished a great session on Innovation […]

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