innovation posts, articles, and infographics

Innovation Mistake: Thinking Tools Will Fix Your Problem

January 24, 2012 by Tim Kastelle
with 768 views

I had lunch a while back with two executives from an organisation that the Business School does a fair bit work with. They wanted to improve innovation and that’s what triggered our meeting. We talked for a couple of hours about what was happening in their organisation. We talked about innovation as a process, the different forms of... [read more]

Disruption vs. Innovation: Don't Get Stuck in a Facebook Rut!

January 10, 2012 by Charity Hisle
with 412 views

Disruption vs. Innovation in Apartment Marketing: Don't get stuck in a Facebook rut! Can you afford to wait for perfection? How much proof do you need? Is it all about the leases? Customer service? SEO? Name recognition, PR and branding? Is there value in community? [read more]

The Ethos of the Internet and a Culture of Innovation

December 7, 2011 by Elizabeth Lupfer
with 512 views

"An innovative culture is a combination of the right technology, culture and people, working together seamlessly to deliver innovative solutions to important organizational problems. Is there an off-the-shelf blueprint or formula that can guarantee innovation? Absolutely not. But there are best practices and core principles that can be used to guide your effort." [read more]

Social Media Revolution in Organisations : Blitzkrieg vs. Guerilla

September 30, 2011 by Christophe Mallet
with 833 views

"You might have heard of Jeremiah Owyang’s model, “The Five Ways Companies Organize for Social Business”. His framework presents and details 5 organisational models illustrating how companies structure their social media activity across the organisation. Summing it up broadly, here’s how it goes..." [read more]

The Big Idea vs. Small Idea Debate

August 23, 2011 by Mark Pollard
with 641 views

Image courtesy Katherine Kirkland.

The debate about big ideas versus small ideas is dumb. It’s Fox News narrative re-framing applied to advertising. It’s a dubious act of political rhetoric that I’ve seen mostly deployed by digital agencies to make older agencies look their age; often the older agencies oblige. I’m tired of hearing it, and I’m tired of it nearly getting... [read more]

Three New Principles in Internal Communication

August 22, 2011 by Luc de Ruijter
with 1,066 views

The revolution in Communication isn’t about journalism, or about sending out messages, nor about designing image and reputation and selling stuff. Social media are there for people to get in touch with one another and to share information about whatever the subject is that is binding them together. [read more]

Walled Gardens and the Value of Innovation: Questions for Bill Franks

March 16, 2011 by Robin Carey
with 137 views

Bill Franks, Chief Analytics Officer at Teradata

Two interesting articles of note in the current Harvard Business Review, one, an interview with John (“I’m not Meg Whitman”) Donahoe, the new CEO of eBay, and a fascinating piece about creating a “culture of experimentation” coincide perfectly with my recent talk with Bill Franks, Chief Analytics Officer at Teradata. Bill* has become an innovation evangelist to the customers of this cutting-edge, “big data” provider, and it just so happens that eBay is one of them. [read more]

Are You Too Scared to Ask a Good Question?

February 24, 2011 by Tim Kastelle
with 1,390 views

One of our long term research projects is the problem of innovating in large complicated businesses such as engineering and mining companies. We have been using social network analysis to understand innovation because one of the biggest innovation challenges involves finding good ideas and existing expertise to do something in a... [read more]

Social Media Tools Can Be Used In The Enterprise

December 3, 2010 by Ron Shulkin
with 3,178 views

One of the best applications of social media is the collaborative tools in the pursuit of idea collection and enhancement. Incremental improvements that produce quick wins along with Breakthrough Innovation that can sustain an organization are all benefits of using social media within the enterprise. [read more]

Perfectionism and Innovation Fluency

October 22, 2010 by christian briggs
with 2,157 views

There has been a lot of talk over the past decade about the importance of Innovation as the speed of business increases, and the difficulty of creating an innovative organization. As a result of our research, we have found it helpful to consider innovation as a fluency which can be broken down into three major sets of skills: The... [read more]

Social Media is the Glue of Innovation

April 27, 2010 by Braden Kelley
with 2,633 views

Social media serves an incredibly important role in innovation. Social media functions as the glue to stick together incomplete knowledge, incomplete ideas, incomplete teams, and incomplete skillsets. Social media is not some mysterious magic box. Ultimately it is a tool that serves to connect people and information. I'm... [read more]

Businesses adoption of social media requires a paradigm shift

April 27, 2010 by Tullio Siragusa
with 937 views

Social Media is only successful because of the human need for active participation in it's own fate. During the agricultural age, people mostly listened to the religious leaders and their fate was not in their hand, in fact anyone who tried to take a stance was murdered, Jesus and Socrates style. During the industrial age,... [read more]

Health Reform: The Imact on American Innovation

December 18, 2009 by Ross Mayfield
with 280 views

This week the NY Times explores how failing to pass health reform will have an impact on innovation -- and archetypal Silicon Valley startups. In the cradle of American innovation, workers are making career choices based on co-payments, pre-existing conditions and other minutiae of health insurance. They are not necessarily making... [read more]

Social Product Innovation: 2 Ways

September 10, 2009 by Paul Dunay
with 592 views

There are 2 ways in which you can use social media to innovate when it comes to developing new products.1) Product led innovations — here companies like Dell and Salesforce have led the charge in using tools to help them prioritize new product features with IdeaStorm and IdeaExchange (respectfully). These are great for engaging... [read more]

About the importance of innovation and how social media marketing can influence an innovation process

June 26, 2009 by Oliver Hellriegel
with 996 views

While the “closed” innovation model served organizations well in the past, more recently, several factors have undermined the logic of this model. One factor is the increased mobility of the workforce. As people move from one organization to another, they take with them the tacit knowledge acquired in one... [read more]

L'innovation c'est parfois pas de business case mais une intuition

May 20, 2009 by Vanina Delobelle
with 60 views

Quand une nouvelle idée est présentée, il faut toujours présenter un business case qui va montrer comment cette idée va évoluer, combien elle va rapporter d'argent. Bref on tourne le sujet dans tous les sens mais dans certains cas, il faut bien le dire, il n'y a pas de... [read more]

Why Big Ideas are so Big

August 19, 2008 by Gary Bembridge
with 579 views

When it comes to developing creating communication, I am a believer in the need to focus first and foremost on the BIG IDEA. Once you have the Creative Big Idea then you can get into the execution. Once you have a Big Idea it is then also very easy to globalise it or write new executions - as then all people locally need to do is... [read more]

Qu'est-ce que l'innovation ?

August 5, 2008 by Vanina Delobelle
with 114 views

J'avais déjÃ abordé ce sujet dans un de mes précédents articles Par quoi passe l'innovation? Avoir un esprit innovant, c'est sortir des sentiers battus, tester, oser. L'innovation peut se faire dans différents domaines mais l'innovation est avant tout un état d'esprit que certains ont plus... [read more]

ID-ah! and The Groundswell

July 31, 2008 by Rex Lee
with 429 views

One of my proudest social computing accomplishments is the creation of ID-ah! (tm), a Bell Canada internal social innovation platform we started in 2005. ID-ah! was featured in the Groundswell book by Charlene Li & Josh Bernoff . Ever since Groundswell, I've had people ask me for more details. I am happy to share more details... [read more]

Co-création, quel avenir ?

July 8, 2008 by Anthony Poncier
with 74 views

Bertrand Duperrin l'a signalé il y a quelques temps sur son blog, McKinsey a publié un article intitulé "the next step in open innovation". Ce dernier traite des interactions entre les entreprises et leurs parties prenantes, qui grÃ¢ce aux nouvelles technologies, permettent une co-création sans préc... [read more]