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Marc Wachtfogel PhD sur Twitter : "Creating an #Innovation Group in a Large Organization #culture #employeeEngagement @IXchat. Creating an Innovation Group in a Large Organization. As an innovation management professor and product management trainer, I have spent a good deal of time this year talking with leaders of product development and management in organizations of all sizes.

Creating an Innovation Group in a Large Organization

The three most frequent topics are: How to create a culture that embraces and promotes innovation,How to create a group responsible for innovation, andWhat should the responsibilities of an innovation group be? Often the discussions begin with one of these questions and leads to the others, as the topics are interdependent. To explore one large company’s experience with these questions, I interviewed Jeff Honious, the VP of Innovation at the RELX Group.

The organization is a global multi-billion dollar enterprise that describes their work as helping scientists make new discoveries, lawyers win cases, doctors save lives, and executives forge relationships with their clients. See link for podcast interview below. Alex Osterwalder sur Twitter : "Must read for big corps @strategyzer "Innovation Shouldn’t Be Career Suicide!" The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Compan... The Online Identity Crisis. Scott Beale / Laughing Squid via Flickr The intense identity aggregation of products like Google and Facebook is pushing users towards anonymous services.

The Online Identity Crisis

Whisper and Secret are both making headlines, each promising an escape from the ruthless scrutiny of mainstream social networks. While these services are great for providing a momentary distraction, they are still doing nothing to address the core problem of online identity. In real life, there are very few situations where it is useful or even desirable to be anonymous outside of explicitly anti-social or criminal behavior. The standard examples of corporate leaks, personal confessions, honest reviews, etc., do not benefit from true anonymity. For example, an Apple employee who wants to release a corporate leak does not want Apple to discover who he or she is, but it is still important that others know that the person is an Apple employee and not just a random fan.

The Googles and Facebooks (GoogleBooks?) Ideas4all Innovation Review. Thinkchange sur Twitter : "Think, idea, share, collaborate, innovate, assess, decide, plan, change, improve, Think, idea, share, collaborate ... Culture Feasts on Innovation: Here's What you C... SAPVoice: Innovation Disrupted: 6 Ideas To Inspire Business Transformation. By Vivek Bapat, Global Vice President, Portfolio & Strategic Marketing, SAP SAP The term “innovation” may just be the biggest buzzword of the last two decades.

SAPVoice: Innovation Disrupted: 6 Ideas To Inspire Business Transformation

Strategy gurus have identified 15 different variants of innovation ranging from “red ocean” innovation to “blue ocean” innovation; from incremental innovation to frugal innovation; from disruptive innovation to sustainable innovation; etc. Innovation buzzword bingo, while sometimes parodied, is real and here to stay. The “business” of innovation itself may be one of the best innovations in itself.

And it is big business. Photo: Shutterstock Like bees to honey, the industry is hooked and the dopamine-induced innovation cravings continue. #CultureCode: Designing a Culture of Innovation... MaxMckeown : "I feel an endless need to ... How Taking A Detour Can Actually Lead To Greater Innovation. Back from U.S.

How Taking A Detour Can Actually Lead To Greater Innovation

Navy service in World War II, a college degree in hand, as well as rejection letters from all 23 of the medical schools to which he had applied, young Julius Jacobson enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania to pursue a Ph.D. degree in cell physiology. In the lab he stared through a microscope, all day, every day. That daily routine in his career detour would one day have a profound effect on the practice of medicine. Eventually accepted by Johns Hopkins and earning his medical degree, Jacobson did his surgical residency at Presbyterian Hospital in New York and then took the position of Director of Surgical Research at the University of Vermont. His first project there, as part of testing a new veterinary drug, was to stop a dog's nerves from functioning. And then it came to him--look at the artery under a microscope! The problem was not that the artery was too small to reconnect. The New Patterns of Innovation. Let 10 000 lights shine: how end users are cocr.

Why Most Companies Renovate Instead Of Innovate... Amazon.co. Why aren’t CEOs ambitious any more? “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde In the Japanese city of Sapporo, one man towers above all others.

Why aren’t CEOs ambitious any more?

“Shounen yo, taishi wo idake!” William Smith Clark told students as he departed in 1876. “Boys, be ambitious!” A chemistry professor and colonel in America’s Civil War, Clark had been hired by the Japanese government to establish an agricultural college on Hokkaido. That agricultural college is now Hokkaido University and Clark’s statue overlooks Sapporo from several vantage points. Today, too few leaders seem to share Clark and Jobs’ visionary zeal. “We grossly underestimate the extent to which the world has changed,” says Steve Vamos, former CEO of Microsoft Australia and now a director on several blue-chip Australian boards. “We’re stuck in these old ways of thinking. A new survey by global IT services firm Accenture confirms the sense of stagnation. Story continues on page 2.

Leadership: Are You Disruptive? #peopleskills # Leadership: Are You Disruptive? #peopleskills # Creativity & Innovation. Disruptive innovation. Sustaining innovations are typically innovations in technology, whereas disruptive innovations cause changes to markets.

Disruptive innovation

For example, the automobile was a revolutionary technological innovation, but it was not a disruptive innovation, because early automobiles were expensive luxury items that did not disrupt the market for horse-drawn vehicles. The market for transportation essentially remained intact until the debut of the lower priced Ford Model T in 1908.

The mass-produced automobile was a disruptive innovation, because it changed the transportation market. The automobile, by itself, was not. The current theoretical understanding of disruptive innovation is different from what might be expected by default, an idea that Clayton M. The work of Christensen and others during the 2000s has addressed the question of what firms can do to avoid displacement brought on by technological disruption. History and usage of the term[edit] The term disruptive technologies was coined by Clayton M.