July 2004

The Osborne-Parnes Creative Problem Solving Process The steps guide the creative process. They tell you what to do at each immediate step in order to eventually produce one or more…

Overcoming Obstacles to Innovation The most successful companies say that organizational alignment is a minor problem for them, but 75 percent of companies reporting low success rates see this as…

The Benefits of Centralization for Innovation Everybody has to be involved in innovation, but you do need someone who can coordinate activity and explain how the process works? Innovation is…

By Chris ShipleyNetwork World, 06/14/04 Good news: Technology innovation is returning to levels not seen since the start of the Internet boom. In the past few months, dozens of great…

Check out Innovation Tools by Chuck Frey for a link to the AMR Innovation and NPD Survey. Interesting stuff!

While companies that place a high emphasis on creating new products, services, and technologies are likely to have a designated R&D unit, not all innovation comes from this source. In…

The term “innovation” is widely used to signal change. But the extent of that change is in the eye of the beholder-some apply the term to shifts that are modest…

How to develop a creative mind: 1.   Travel to new places.2.   Read from a variety of fields.3.   Become curious about everything.4.   Attend professional meetings and seminars.5.   Join professional groups and…

Clayton Christensen – Innovation Day 5Ten Types of Innovation – Category 4 Delivery: Innovation type 8: Channel Description of Type: How you get your offerings to marketHow do you innovate…

Like the Clayton Christensen Theme Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4 and Day 5, I will also be doing “Making Innovation Work” from the Conference-Board Report “Making Innovation…

by Fusion – “Fuse two or more ideas or ‘parts’, not usually put together. by Fission – Take an idea and split it into its components to see if they…

Resolving Innovation Strategy Technology is one of the most important resources we have as a civilization. It’s both the threat and the promise. Huge opportunities, and no lack of disruptive…

Clayton Christensen – Innovation Day 4Ten Types of Innovation – Category 3 Offerings: Innovation type 5: Product Performance Description of Type: How you design your core offeringsHow do you innovate…

At Innovation 2004, all the members are busy contributing to the wiki put up by Joyce Wycoff. In the process, we are also finding great stuff to put on our…

From a White Paper released by Imaginatik last summer: ROI of idea management. “Costs of idea management, as well as its benefits. –Advisory services –Manpower –Process –Training –Technology –Reward and…