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

This issue:

• How to build an innovation culture [BusinessWeek NEXT]
  How to embed innovation in an organization must be one of the most discussed, little agreed-upon topics of our time. A panel of industry heavyweights worked through the problem at Incentive 2 Innovate in July.
• Does IT need more social scientists and fewer technologists? [ZD Net, Between the Lines]
  We hear a lot about the need for IT pros to become more business savvy, but Gartner researcher Tom Austin takes that thinking even further.
• 50 coolest products of the 21st century [BusinessWeek]
  BusinessWeek select what they see as the 50 most interesting products to with IDEA (the International Design Excellence Awards) awards in the last 10 years.
• How knowledge can hurt innovation [Harvard Business Innovation Insights]
  People who have deep knowledge about a topic sometimes assume other people have that same knowledge. This can easily lead to miss steps when the experts assume something that isn’t necessarily true.