Monthly Archives: December 2010
Instead of just releasing a Top 20 Innovation and Marketing Articles of 2010 list for the new year, based purely on traffic, I thought I would also allow people to vote – by ranking articles based on the #of facebook likes added to the # of retweets for the top 40 article candidates – and then also publish a Top 20 Innovation and Marketing Articles of 2010 list based on these votes. Vote for your favorite by: Clicking the “like” button in our new RED toolbar at the bottom of the article Retweeting the article using your favorite tool or the “retweet” button to the right of the authors name at the top of the article, or using the “tweet” button in our new RED toolbar at the bottom of the article To make things more interesting Facebook likes will count DOUBLE Below, in no particular order you will find … Continue reading
Earlier this month Michael Tompert, a San Francisco digital imaging artist, violently destroyed some brand-new Apple products for the sake of art and the results are a collection high resolution prints with a statement “our relationship with fetish, fashion, freedom, and bondage. The collection of giant prints including one called “Targeting” that shows a 3G iPhone that’s been shot with a Heckler & Koch handgun. I guess we can call it “creative destruction.” What’s “creative destruction?” It is of communist origin – a term originally derived from Marxist economic theory which refers to the linked processes of the accumulation and annihilation of wealth under capitalism. These processes were first described in The Communist Manifesto and were expanded in Marx’s Grundrisse “Volume IV” (1863) of Das Kapital. It is about economic innovation, the way in how capitalist economic development arises out of the destruction of some prior economic order. Only since … Continue reading
It only happens once a year, that magical week between Christmas and New Year. And for those who continue working in between holidays, it’s definitely slower. More colleagues, customers and partners are out of the office, more recurring meetings are canceled, and we consequently have more lightly-scheduled days than normal. How you use that time is completely up to you. It would be easy to reactively handle email, take a long lunch, and linger too long in your RSS reader. But we both know, if you’ve chosen to stay in the office this week, there are better things to do. Here are at least ten things you can do in the quieter days leading up to New Year’s Day to help you accelerate through the curve and come back January 2nd ready to take on the world. Finish a big project. Something (or several things) on your plate …
A few weeks back, I wrote a blog post, From Innovation Archer to Innovation Magnet, which was based on a recent meeting with Jan Bosch, VP of Open Innovation at Intuit. As a follow-up post, I am pleased to be able to share some insights from Jan on how they act in the early stages of building relationships with potential partners. This is the advice from Jan based on their experiences. Get beyond the usual suspects. Traditional business development folks easily get overwhelmed and focus on “the usual suspects”. In our Open Innovation efforts, we try hard to reach new potential partners rather than the companies that we already knew. Set expectations up front. We try to be very clear about what potential partners can expect in order to avoid the “false positives” mode. For instance, for entrepreneur day, we promise a yes/no response within 48 hours after the event. … Continue reading
As you may have already guessed, John and I are mentally wiped out right now and are taking a short break from blogging. We’re saving up ideas and posts and will be ready to go again once the new year starts. In the meantime, here are a few questions to consider. If you’d like to answer them in the comments, it would be fun to have a discussion on these issues: What’s the most innovative thing you’ve done this year? What will you do next year to build on this year’s success? What is your greatest innovation challenge right now? Here are my answers: My most innovative idea was The Innovation Matrix. Over the next twelve months or so I’m going to give serious thought to how to best use The Innovation Matrix within organizations to help them improve innovation. The two key issues here are figuring out metrics that … Continue reading
Achieving a sense of renewal to your innovation activities by Paul Hobcraft We need to constantly renew within ourselves. There is a time when your innovation efforts may need a serious renewal and for many this might be now. Knowing when to invest in an innovation renewal and organizing for it is like any other organizational activity. Those that are honest enough to admit that what they have achieved to-date in innovation activity is just not going to ‘cut it’ for the future will be making a very ‘tough’ call but it might be one of the best ones you are about to make. I think we all need to think of a renewal of innovation as essential in our thinking as over time many things have changed and moved on. We need not just to adjust in our objectives but more importantly to adapt and acknowledge that our innovation … Continue reading
