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Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the internet.
As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated.
Tags: BusinessWeek, Google, Innovation, Mixergy, Seth Godin, Swiss Miss
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the internet.
As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated.
- An innovation report card [The Conference Board of Canada]
Countries with the highest overall scores not only spend more on science and technology but also have policies that drive innovation supply and demand.
- Innovation: what’s your score? [McKinsey & Company: What Matters]
Can companies measure the impact of their innovation activities? Can they benchmark their performance on innovation against that of their peers? Can the long-term effects of innovation strategies be tracked systematically? Yes, yes, and yes. In fact, not only can companies objectively assess innovation; we believe they must. Only then will they know how to select the right strategies and execute them well.
- The Original Futurama: The Legacy of the 1939 World’s Fair [Popular Mechanics]
Seventy years after the closing of the 1939 New York World’s Fair, The Daily Show writer Elliott Kalan looks back at its past vision of the World of Tomorrow.
- Why private companies are more innovative [BusinessWeek: NEXT]
Do privately held companies have an edge when it comes to long-term innovation? At least some of them seem to. Recently, Al Gore—former Vice-President and Senator and now Nobel Prize-winning environmental evangelist—declared S.C. Johnson & Son one of the most sustainable companies in the world.
Tags: Australia, BusinessWeek, Canada, Conference Board of Canada, Innovation, McKinsey, New York, Popular Mechanics, World's Fair
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the internet.
As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated.
- Cisco’s Patent Strategy: It’s More Than Numbers [BusinessWeek: NEXT]
Innovation—at least as measured by patents—seems to fading in the U.S. For the first time, moreover, foreigners obtained more patents than U.S. residents.
- Technology First, Needs Last [jnd]
Don Norman has come to an interesting conclusion: design research is great when it comes to improving existing product categories but essentially useless when it comes to new, innovative breakthroughs.
- Boyer Lectures [Radio National]
General Peter Cosgrove, AC MC (ret’d) presented the Boyer Lectures, from 8 November 2009, with his 40 years of military experience and service to Australia placing him in a unique position to talk about the challenges and opportunities faced by society today and into the future.
- Head to Head: Innovation in China and the US [Innovate on Purpose]
A survey comparing the attitudes and expectations about the US and China in regard to innovation finds some relatively unexpected differences, and some safe assumptions.
Tags: Boyer Lectures, BusinessWeek, China, Cisco, Don Norman, Innovate on Purpose, Innovation, Peter Cosgrove, U.S.A.
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the internet.
As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated.
- Patent Volume Isn’t the Best Innovation Gauge [BusinessWeek: Innovate]
Patent volume isn’t necessarily a valid proxy for innovation. A study by the Patent Board, an intellectual-property consultancy, shows there are other—and better—ways to quantify innovation. Ranked by sheer volume, Honda Motor is No. 1, with 54. That’s almost twice second-place Panasonic, which has 28. Ranked by other metrics, though, Honda isn’t a leader.
- The Downside of Seeking Common Ground [strategy+business]
People’s tendency to find common ground in conversation by focusing on what’s familiar can stifle the most innovative thinkers.
- Is America Losing Its Mojo? [Newsweek]
Innovation is as American as baseball and apple pie. But some traditions can’t be trademarked.
- Innovation relies on synthesis [Innovate on Purpose]
We often talk about the importance of combining disparate skills or capabilities when innovating, or holding two diametrically opposing ideas and finding the happy medium. What should be obvious is that one of the most important skills from an innovation perspective is the act and insight of synthesis.
Tags: BusinessWeek, Honda, Innovate on Purpose, Innovation, Newsweek, Panasonic, Patents, strategy+business, Synthesis
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the internet.
As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated.
- Warren Buffett’s bet against innovation [BusinessWeek: Innovate]
In proclaiming an “all-in wager on the economic future of the United States, Warren Buffett just paid $44 billion for a 19th century technology platform, a railroad, that carries 20th century goods—coal, agriculture, imports from Asia, petroleum. This is a vision of an America mired in the past and in economic and political decline. And Buffett just might be right. He has a great track record betting against innovation.
- Embracing Innovation: a new methodology for feature film production in Australia [Centre for Screen Business]
Do too many Australian films fall into a budgetary ‘no-man’s land’ – not big enough to compete with the US studios, yet too big to stand a chance of commercial viability in a market flooded with independent films? Robert Connolly’s recommendations provide us with valuable grist for the mill as we, in the IT industry, work our way through the current evolutionary phase our industry is going through, driven by the shift from large, on premises applications to a future increasingly dominated by cloud solutions. His approach to the problem is also an excellent model of how to engage with the wholesale transformation of an industry.
- 10 examples of minimum viable products [Venture Hacks]
Brilliant products are rarely the result of brilliant ideas. Most products start small, as minimum viable products, and then grow as the customers and developers work together to learn what the product should be.
- What do the crowds know about innovation? [Innovate on Purpose]
Companies use different strategies and techniques for crowdsourcing ideas. All of these approaches help gather ideas from the crowd, but they also serve as trend spotting and public relations opportunities as well, and some companies might be more interested in these secondary effects. As Henry Ford pointed out, “If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.”
Tags: BusinessWeek, Centre for Screen Business, Henry Ford, Innovate on Purpose, Innovation, Minimum viable products, Robert Connolly, Venture Hacks, Warren Buffett
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the internet.
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Tags: BusinessWeek, hypios, InnoCentive, Innovation, LEGO, LEGO Mindstorms, Open Innovation, strategy+business, The Economist, The Global Innovation 1000
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Tags: BusinessWeek, Globalization, Google, Innovation, Royal Pingdom, Stefan Lindegaard, The Economist, U.S.
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Tags: BusinessWeek, Harvard Business, IDEA, Innovation, X Prize, ZD Net
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Tags: Apple, BusinessWeek, FOWA, Innovation, Pragmatic Marketing, presentation, Simon Wardley, The Industry Standard
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