Innovation by observation: the rise of the biomimetist
Posted by: innovtoday on: July 25, 2010
One of IDEO’s ten faces of innovation is the anthropologist: the one who observes human behaviours and actions to discover wasted effort that could be turned into an innovation challenge. In the past decade, an eleven’s face has been quietly but steadily rising to prominence in the innovation team: the biomimetist, Read the rest of this entry »
Creativity is not top priority for the emergence of an innovation culture
Posted by: innovtoday on: July 6, 2010
An injection of creativity serum for all employees – if such a thing was ever invented – is not what the enterprise seeking to become more innovative needs. Essentially for two reasons:
- Firstly, creativity is part of human nature, though often repressed and suppressed. In the right environment it will naturally re-emerge and bloom. No need for chemical boost!
- Secondly, and perhaps more counter-intuitively, creativity is only a small component of innovation, one that may not make the real difference: the creative enterprise is full of ideas, the innovative enterprise is full of cash. Read the rest of this entry »
Creativity starts with copying
Posted by: innovtoday on: June 23, 2010
What do these two paintings have in common?
While Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) is world-famous, The first communion, painted 12 years earlier, would only be recognised by experts or serious connaisseurs.
In martial art fashion, iPed exploites iPad obessive defense to attack
Posted by: innovtoday on: June 10, 2010
The iPed has just been released. I first thought it was a typo, but it’s not: the iPed is a Chinese copycat of the iPad, going as far as picking one of the few vowels left by Apple to comically copy the name of its californian rival. It would be easy to dismiss it as a cheap imitation (and at $150 v $500, cheaper it is indeed) that will only appeal to second-class customers. But the iPed brings something radically different: it is open source. Read the rest of this entry »
Crowdsourcing solutions to the Gulf oil spill
Posted by: innovtoday on: June 2, 2010
Hutch Carpenter asks on Blogging Innovation: should BP crowdsource potential solutions for the Gulf oil spill? Crowdsourcing has indeed proven its value time and again. In We Think Charles Leadbeater demonstrates its power to harness the collective brains of people across the globe to design strategies to solve problems more effectively and rapidly than formal organisation could ever do.
In his post, Hutch examins three factors that might be holding BP back: Read the rest of this entry »
Co-creation springs from a sense of common purpose
Posted by: innovtoday on: May 28, 2010
Too often the question of value extraction/retention is a dominant concern for all parties at too early a stage. For the sake of argument, let’s consider a supplier who has to develop a critical component for a customer who will integrate it in the design of a new finished product. The development process has not yet started that the customer plays its cards close to its chest with the conscious objective to retain as much of the value they will get from selling the finished product, Read the rest of this entry »
Why Hollywood will succeed where BP has failed
Posted by: innovtoday on: May 21, 2010
As efforts to contain the Gulf spill appear to be on the brink of collapse, Costner’s Ocean Therapy device is going to be tested in real life conditions – monstrously larger than life conditions, actually. As a scientist or simply a logical human being can I affirm that the device will work? No, I can’t.
But I will.
Innovation is a form of win-win negotiation
Posted by: innovtoday on: May 11, 2010
Almost three decades ago, Ury and Fisher published their ground-breaking negotiation method, Getting to Yes that laid the foundation of win-win negotiation. Reflecting back on my early years in B2B Account Management and my current activities in Technology, I was struck by the parallels between win-win negotiation and innovation. Read the rest of this entry »
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