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Come join us August 10-12, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois for some great open innovation talks, panels, and networking! Blogging Innovation is proud to announce that Braden Kelley will be the chairperson for World Research Group’s 3rd Annual Open Innovation Summit – an annual gathering in Chicago of open innovation leaders from organizations big and small. Five Reasons Why Innovators Won’t Miss This Summit: It’s the Largest Open Innovation Summit Yet – There are more opportunities than ever before for innovation leaders to connect at this event complete with 40+ speakers, multiple session tracks, and deeper conversations than ever before! It’s Focused on Specific Industries as Well as General Topics – This event addresses emerging challenges and opportunities that are being realized by specific industries and also the entire open innovation community as a whole like no other event has done in the past. Dive deep beneath the surface of the … Continue reading
A message from the Founder The global innovation community is moving to a new home soon – Innovation Excellence. Founded by two of the world’s leading innovation experts – Braden Kelley (author, Stoking your Innovation Bonfire) and Rowan Gibson (co-author, Innovation to the Core) – innovationexcellence.com will build upon an international group of more than 6,000 members from over 150 countries. It will bring you an arsenal of resources from today’s innovation thought leaders and practitioners that will help you achieve innovation excellence in your own organization. A global innovation community (150+ countries) More than 2,650 articles Innovation thought leaders Thousands of practitioners and innovation heroes just like you So join the community today. Share your innovation experience. And be one of the first innovation heroes to contribute to and benefit from innovationexcellence.com. If you’re on LinkedIn, please join the Innovation Excellence group. If you’re not on LinkedIn, please sign-up … Continue reading
by Sonal Chokshi, Lawrence Lee, Peter Pirolli On the surface, Malcolm Gladwell’s latest article for The New Yorker, “Creation Myth: Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about innovation”, is a story about the mouse and how inventions travel – and evolve – across time and place. But examined more deeply, the article is really about the factors that determine whether you end up with an invention or an innovation. Simply put: “invention” is the manifestation of an idea or creation of something new. It doesn’t become an “innovation” until it’s applied successfully in practice – i.e., it reaches the market and impacts people’s lives. The story of PARC – and for that matter, any other innovative company – is indeed a mix of hopeful inventions, world-changing innovations, and missed opportunities, as Gladwell observes. We agree with many of the key points illustrated by the anecdotes and quotes in his article. … Continue reading
Below you will find the Top 10 innovation slideshares as ranked by me from the submissions I received for the Front End of Innovation (FEI USA) contest and from the thousands of innovation presentations on slideshare. I’m sure there are probably better ones, but I couldn’t find them. If I missed some, please add a comment with a link. If it is really good (and downloadable), I’ll add it to our Innovation Excellence slideshare channel. Here are my Top 10 Innovation Slideshares: The Art of Innovation by Guy Kawasaki Creating and Sustaining Profitable Growth by Clayton Christensen The Nine Innovation Roles by Braden Kelley Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs by Carmine Gallo 100 Things to Watch in 2011 by Ann M. Mack 10 Business Models That Rocked 2010 by Nick Demey 10 Lessons of Innovation by Idris Mootee Innovation by 10 by Frog Design Innovation and the Future by Torsten … Continue reading
More than 2,600 articles, and growing… In preparation for the launch of Innovation Excellence, and in the continuing spirit of the global Blogging Innovation community, I am opening up this blog even farther. If you are a published author, an aspiring author, an academic, an innovation practitioner, or frankly just an innovation enthusiast with a unique and powerful innovation insight to share, we want to hear from you – regardless of pedigree or geography. We can’t of course accept and publish every submission, but if the innovation insight is strong enough and the grammar is sufficient to be understood, then we are open to looking at any and all submissions and we would be proud to add to our community of 30+ contributing authors who gain valuable visibility from having their work appear on Blogging Innovation. For those of you who may not realize how big Blogging Innovation already is … Continue reading
Last year I experimented with a Top Ten list at the beginning of each month, profiling the ten posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Blogging Innovation, and people seemed to like it. So, without further ado, here are April’s twelve most popular innovation or marketing posts (each receiving 2,000-6,000 page views): Relationship Between Value and Price – by Patrick Lefler Business Models Aren’t Just For Business – by Saul Kaplan Value Propositions are Key to Successful Innovation – by Robert F Brands Innovation Competency Model – by Drew Boyd 41 Ways to Foster a Culture of Innovation – by Barry Gruenberg Evolution of the Innovation Funnel – by Jeffrey Phillips Impact of Social Factors on Innovation – by Roy Luebke Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing on the Rise – by Paul Sloane The Four Types of Corporate Innovation – by Jeffrey Baumgartner Innovation And Entrepreneurship Fatal … Continue reading
