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Innovation linkage

I gave a talk on innovation at Chisholm tonight in their Business Innovation Seminar Series, and promised to provide links to some of my references. Here they are:

Leave a comment if I’ve missed anything and I’ll try and find a reference.

Tags: Apply, Innovation, iPad, iPhone, John Boyd, John Kay, obliquity, OODA, Peter Drucker, Seven Sources of Innovation, Sony, Steve Jobs, Walkman

Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the internet.

As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated.

The global innovation paradox [The Atlantic]
Innovation has always, and will always, occur at the coalface where there are problems to solve, and not in some ivory tower research and development centre.
Growth on the cheap [The Economist]
The OECD tells governments how to unleash business’s creative potential.
Forget Design Thinking and try Hybrid Thinking [Fast Company]
We have a strong tendency to try and latch onto the next big thing, the (next) silver bullet, when we should be more like bowerbirds, stealing what we think is useful.
All We Want to Do is Make Better Products [All Things Digital]
Steve Jobs makes a strong case for obliquity at one of the main drivers behind innovation.

Tags: Apple, Design Thinking, Fast Company, Innovation, OECD, Steve Jobs, The Atlantic, The Economist