Patricia Seybold conducted a case study concerning “The Anatomy of Innovation”. One of the main results is a kind of checklist for innovations within large organizations:
Hire an outside renegade.
Have him build and sell his vision.
Let him create his own team.
Locate the team off-site.
Take a blank slate approach.
Create a blueprint with an integrated cross-functional team.
Have the [...]
Some things do not need an innovation. “Events” like Christmas are innovated enough by far calling them “Xmas”.
credit: Manuela Michalski (via The Design blog)
Other – even incremental – innovations concerning Christmas (like this type of tree) are imho not necessary – although I really like the design
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!
Jeffrey Philipps posted:
Why do we think people can immediately and effectively “think outside the box” when for their entire lives we’ve reinforced “coloring inside the lines”?
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To my mind that’s really one of the crucial points! Most people that I would call “creative” are also not what one would call “conformed”. So let’s start to [...]
Harvard Business School professor Niall Ferguson includes the following key concept (among others) in his historian’s view on globalization and the current financial crisis:
Optimized global networks may be vulnerable to crises.
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This reminded me of a general optimization problem: we always try to find a special state (optimum) for a special situation under special [...]
This illustration of a “Corporate Innovation Machine” presented by jpb.com
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reminds me of (and goes largely along with) the New Concept Development Modell (NCD) published by Koen et al. in 2001:
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