Category: collaboration
Me contraigo cada vez que veo un nuevo artículo tratando de decir básicamente que algunas personas son innovadoras y otras no, o que ciertos individuos son más innovadores que otros. Simplemente no es verdad. Soy un firme creyente de que no se trata de personalidades cuando se trata de innovación, se trata de los papeles que desempeñamos al hacer que ocurra (o no) la innovación. Continue reading
Who gets rewarded for innovating in your organization? Is it only those teams that manage to successfully carry an idea all the way through to a lucrative reality? What happens to teams that work on ideas that did not pan out? Continue reading
I have been highly critical of brainstorming over the past year or two. And I am not the only one. The formal brainstorming process as defined by Alex Osborn some 60 years ago has come in for criticism since Mr. Osborn first wrote about it. But over the past couple of years, a growing body of research shows that all the assumptions behind brainstorming are flawed. Continue reading
Last week I described the Improve Idea button that we have added to our 2013 Innovation Roadmap activity at EMC. I’d like to describe in a bit more detail what happens when this button is pushed. Continue reading
Lately my work with senior marketing folks has yielded a consistent message. They want to tap into the ideas of their customers.I’m turning now to the concept of using the Crowd to get creative ideas for your next marketing video. Continue reading
Last week GE and Quirky announced a new partnership where GE will make some of its library of patents available as part of Quirky’s new inspiration platform, allowing inventors to use some of its patents in their potentially novel consumer product invention ideas. This on its surface is a very interesting and logical open innovation partnership (no, not crowdsourcing). But will it work? Will it achieve the goals that GE has in mind for the open innovation partnership? Continue reading
How to design products that engage and encourage a broad exploration of their uses? Ingi Brown thesis draws a model highlighting the concept of Disjunction. Disjunctive goods tend to give pending attributes and unexpected properties, opening free design spaces. Continue reading
