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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.
This issue:
- Inside Google’s design process [BusinessWeek: Innovation]
Google takes an integrated approach to innovation, pulling together design, analysis and engineering to create an iterative processes which helps them nurture small ideas into big products.
- Horizontal Innovation Networks: By and for Users [Eric von Hippel]
Innovation development, production, distribution and consumption networks can be built up horizontally—with actors consisting only of innovation users (more precisely, “user/self-manufacturers”). Some open source software projects are examples of such networks, and examples can be found in the case of physical products as well. In this article, we discuss three conditions under which user innovation networks can function entirely independently of manufacturers. We then explore related empirical evidence, and conclude that conditions favorable to horizontal user innovation networks are often present in the economy.
- Jim Jarmusch On Stealing From Everywhere [PSFK]
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination…
- If Isaac Asimov designed your computer… [Educated Guesswork]
Like nearly all science fiction authors of that era, Asimov got computers pretty much all wrong, in at least three major ways.
Tags: BusinessWeek, Educated Guesswork, Eric von Hippel, Google, Innovation, Isaac Asimov, Jim Jarmusch, PSFK
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the Internet.
As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated.
This issue:
- What Apple learned from Kodak [BusinessWeek]
Sometimes repeating what was done in the past is the best path to innovation.
- Miyamoto unplugged [Edge Online]
Back before the Wii was released no one took them seriously, but Nintendo’s focus on simply making fun games has paid off and they see no need to change strategy now.
- The role of business in society [John Kay]
Sometimes the best approach to success is to approach it indirectly. Apple focused on making products they themselves would love to use, while Nintendo wants to make fun games everyone can enjoy. Obliquity might be the best approach to innovation: try and be the best you can, rather than trying to be the most innovative.
- In which innovation leads to injury [Wondermark]
Not all ideas work out the way we expect.
Tags: Apple, BusinessWeek, EDGE, Innovation, John Kay, Nintendo, obliquity, The Economist, video games, Wondermark
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the Internet.
As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated.
This issue:
- Engineers rule [Forbes]
At American auto companies, finance guys and marketers rise to the top. Not at Honda.
- China’s long road to innovation [strategy+business]
Beijing is mandating an increase in home-grown R&D, but Chinese companies face long odds in meeting international standards of innovation.
- Cisco CEO John Chambers on speeding up innovation [BusinessWeek]
In Chambers’ view, business is on the verge—not in the midst—of a dramatic transformation, a huge leap forward in productivity built on collaboration made possible by Web 2.0-style tools similar to YouTube, FaceBook, and Wikipedia but adapted to the corporate environment. “Our children, with their social network[ing], have presented us with the future of productivity,” he emphatically told the crowd of about 4,500 executives.
- The kids are alright [Economist]
Worries about the damage the internet may be doing to young people has produced a mountain of books—a suitably old technology in which to express concerns about the new. Robert Bly claims that, thanks to the internet, the “neo-cortex is finally eating itself”. Today’s youth may be web-savvy, but they also stand accused of being unread, bad at communicating, socially inept, shameless, dishonest, work-shy, narcissistic and
indifferent to the needs of others.
Tags: BusinessWeek, China, Cisco, Forbes, Innovation, strategy+business, The Economist
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