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Riding on board a Virgin America flight, I have CNN on my seat media screen. I’m watching CNN much more than I’m usually able to. I notice those tweets flashing along the bottom of the screen. Some are good. Many aren’t. They are examples of the tendency for online discussions to devolve into name calling, stereotypes and ad hominem attacks. ...

“Innovation ‘Management’ as a term, doesn’t sit well with me. Just like Knowledge ‘Management’. KM failed in part because of the inherent controls.” Sameer Patel, April 22, 2009 by Hutch Carpenter I thought this was a good comment by Sameer, as it reflects a couple things: Nascent field of technology tools that specifically facilitate and improve corporate innovation is just ...

IBM recently launched its Smarter Cities initiative. Part of its overall SmarterPlanet project, Smarter Cities is an effort to find solutions to the problems that will occur due to our ever-increasing population growth in urban centers around the world: “In 1900, only 13% of the world’s population lived in cities. By 2050, that number will have risen to 70%. We ...

The New York Times has a great story about Lego’s resurgence as a profitable, growing toymaker. In Beyond the Blocks, the newspaper asks: “Lego has rebuilt itself, but does it risk losing a sense of wonder?” Lego is a universal toy for all of us, across generations. As kids, we played with canisters of those multicolored bricks. As parents, we ...

A classic dilemma for companies is determining the best way to foster innovation. There are many good books with different approaches. Clayton Christensen’s “Innovator’s Dilemma” has influenced a generation’s thinking about innovation. He focuses management and entrepreneurs’ attention on the Big I: ‘disruptive innovation’. One outcome of the popularity of Christensen’s book is the awareness people have that entrenched business ...

In his keynote at the Spigit Customer Summit, Gary Hamel said that something that caught my attention: democracies don’t suffer famines. Hearing this, I was intrigued and did some research. Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics, made this empirical observation: One of the remarkable facts in the terrible history of famine is that no substantial famine ...

Adam Hartung, Managing Partner of Spark Partners, a strategy and transformation consultancy, asked this question on LinkedIn: “Do you think “Tide Basic,” a less-good formulation, is an innovation? Isn’t innovation about making things better and cheaper, not just cheaper?” The genesis of the question is a story in the Wall Street Journal describing why P&G recently rolled out Tide Basic. ...

Last week at the first-ever Spigit Customer Summit, I had a chance to listen to Gary Hamel live. He delivered the keynote for the event, “Inventing Management 2.0.” If you’re a reader of Gary’s blog or his books, you know he’s a big proponent of empowering employees and changing management paradigms. See his 25 Stretch Goals for Management in the ...

This a bonus eighth ‘Innovation Perspectives‘ article to give one extra perspectives on The Importance of Innovation Strategy: Describe the importance of innovation strategy to the success of an organization’s innovation efforts. Braden Kelley of Blogging Innovation asked a number of people to contribute their perspectives on the question above. This is our response. Popular culture associates innovation with one ...

Item #1: “As the spam annoyance factor on Twitter goes up, the credentials/relevance go down meaning less user value. @biz huge deal!” – Kim Patrick Kobza, President & CEO of Neighborhood America Item #2: “Twitter Search will also get a ‘reputation’ ranking system soon, Jayaram told me. When you do a search on a ‘trending’ topic – a topic that ...