Monthly Archives: December 2009
by Braden KelleyThe first edition of the conference was held in Orlando, Florida at the Crowne Plaza Orlando Universal. The second annual Open Innovation Summit will be held August 11-13, 2010 in Chicago, IL.The second day of the conference kicked off with Robert Brands. Here are some of the key takeaways from Robert and the other speakers on the second day:Robert Brands (InnovationCoach) – Creativity x Risk Taking – There is a multiplier effect if you have the courage. Internal innovation projects need a champion to overcome corporate antibodies and those champions need to be part of other teams. Too often we forget to train our people on the basics of doing proper project management, meeting management, new product development (NPD) next practices, etc. Innovation accountability is critical. Robert Brands is right, many companies don’t effectively manage projects or meetings – lots of lost $$$ and time as a result. … Continue reading
by Braden KelleyEarlier this month I led a workshop at the Open Innovation Summit on identifying and removing barriers to innovation with special guests: Greg Fox (Cisco Systems), Helene F. Rutledge (GSK Consumer Healthcare), and Hutch Carpenter (Spigit).The first edition of the conference was held in Orlando, Florida at the Crowne Plaza Orlando Universal. The second annual Open Innovation Summit will be held August 11-13, 2010 in Chicago, IL.After the workshop I covered the rest of the Open Innovation Summit on Twitter as @innovate – check out the #OIS09 transcript courtesy of @renee_innosight.”Press has done a good job of turning innovation into the buzzword of the decade.” – Philip McKinney (HP)The conference kicked off with Phil McKinney of HP, and he was followed by innovation leaders from companies such as CSC, Shell, P&G, Whirlpool, Clorox, Xerox, and more. I don’t think there was a single company speaking at the conference … Continue reading
I run across a lot of organisations that say that ‘innovation’ is one of their core values, but their actions don’t support innovation at all. Every once in a while, one of them decides that it is time to get serious about innovation, and that’s when I get called in to help. As John has described, one of the first issues that these organisations deal with is the question of how to be more innovative. Often their first step is to work on generating more ideas, but we know that idea generation usually isn’t the problem – idea execution is. Coming to grips with this is one of the key steps to take in becoming more innovative. Another key step is figuring out who should be responsible for innovation?Jonathan Crowley from NESTA frames the issue nicely – organisations face two choices: create an innovation team that is responsible for driving … Continue reading
For those of you who asked, here is the video of my six minute speech at the TEDx NASA conference. Enjoy.Stephen Shapiro is the author of three books, a popular innovation speaker, and is the Chief Innovation Evangelist for Innocentive, the leader in Open Innovation.
We all have big, intimidating projects on our plates that, frankly, are a little scary. They either feel like a lot of work, or you’re not exactly sure how to tackle them. So, we hem and haw and avoid them.I’ve found that a fairly simple trick can help me get more of those projects done. It takes just five minutes.When I’m facing a big project or task, I tell myself I’m going to spend five minutes getting it started, and that’s it. I’m either going to just do five minutes worth of that task, or just spend five minutes planning how to tackle it.The secret of the Five Minute Rule is that I almost always keep going, blow past the five minutes, and get the task done in far less time than if I would have kept procrastinating.It’s those five minutes that demonstrate how relatively quickly & easily the task … Continue reading
January’s opportunity to contribute your Innovation Perspectives is now here. This monthly feature presents our loyal readers with different perspectives on a single topic all in one place – from several different authors. It gives our innovation community the opportunity to compare, contrast and discuss them in the comments here on Blogging Innovation and with the 1,600+ people in the Continuous Innovation group on LinkedIn.Here is this month’s topic for publishing the week of January 11-17, 2010:What product or sector is in desperate need of innovation?Thank you to Graham Horton for submitting this month’s topicSeveral contributing authors will be writing articles on this topic, but you are also welcome to submit an article by the end of January 9, 2010.We look forward to sharing January’s Innovation Perspectives with you and hearing your thoughts! If you missed November’s Innovation Perspectives, you can find them here.Braden Kelley is the editor of Blogging … Continue reading
