Comments on: Innovation should not be the race for the new-new thing http://peter.evans-greenwood.com/2009/09/14/innovation-should-not-be-the-race-for-the-new-new-thing/ Trying to understand the intersection between business and technology Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:45:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Peter Evans-Greenwood http://peter.evans-greenwood.com/2009/09/14/innovation-should-not-be-the-race-for-the-new-new-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-919 Peter Evans-Greenwood Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:30:50 +0000 http://peter.evans-greenwood.com/?p=760#comment-919 I'm fairly sure that it was Ikea, and it's a sentiment that I've agreed with for some time. The web is a brilliant way to share ideas and make us all good at what we do, which <a href="http://peter.evans-greenwood.com/2008/11/17/the-revolution-will-not-be-televised/" rel="nofollow">makes the real challenge to be original</a>. I'm fairly sure that it was Ikea, and it's a sentiment that I've agreed with for some time. The web is a brilliant way to share ideas and make us all good at what we do, which makes the real challenge to be original.

]]> By: Lee Provoost http://peter.evans-greenwood.com/2009/09/14/innovation-should-not-be-the-race-for-the-new-new-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-918 Lee Provoost Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:18:41 +0000 http://peter.evans-greenwood.com/?p=760#comment-918 "Innovation, the ability to be original, comes from inside, not outside of our organizations. "<br><br>I can't really recall exactly which company it was, I think Ikea, and they keep their main design center far away from the traditional "design hubs" in the world just to avoid that it gets too much polluted with outside ideas, they want to encourage unique ideas that come from the inside, inspired by nature. “Innovation, the ability to be original, comes from inside, not outside of our organizations. “

I can't really recall exactly which company it was, I think Ikea, and they keep their main design center far away from the traditional “design hubs” in the world just to avoid that it gets too much polluted with outside ideas, they want to encourage unique ideas that come from the inside, inspired by nature.

]]> By: Why scanning more data will not (necessarily) help BI – PEG http://peter.evans-greenwood.com/2009/09/14/innovation-should-not-be-the-race-for-the-new-new-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-898 Why scanning more data will not (necessarily) help BI – PEG Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:09:50 +0000 http://peter.evans-greenwood.com/?p=760#comment-898 [...] seem to be a synthesis process. We take a handful of data and fuse them to create an insight. The invention of breath strips is a case in point. We can rarely break our problem down to a single (computed) metric, the world [...] [...] seem to be a synthesis process. We take a handful of data and fuse them to create an insight. The invention of breath strips is a case in point. We can rarely break our problem down to a single (computed) metric, the world [...]

]]> By: Innovation [2009-10-18] – PEG http://peter.evans-greenwood.com/2009/09/14/innovation-should-not-be-the-race-for-the-new-new-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-847 Innovation [2009-10-18] – PEG Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:01:59 +0000 http://peter.evans-greenwood.com/?p=760#comment-847 [...] for the next brilliant idea? That idea that’s going to drive a disruptive innovation. The race for the new-new thing. The innovation silver bullet. Or is innovation the result of combining many small, commoditised [...] [...] for the next brilliant idea? That idea that’s going to drive a disruptive innovation. The race for the new-new thing. The innovation silver bullet. Or is innovation the result of combining many small, commoditised [...]

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