Top 20 Innovation Articles – August 2012. Drum roll please… At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence.
We also publish a weekly Top 10 as part of our Innovation Excellence Weekly email. Did your favorite make the cut? But enough delay, here are August’s twenty most popular innovation posts (each receiving 3,300 – 6,300 page views): BONUS – Here are three more strong articles published the last week of the month: If you’re not familiar with Innovation Excellence, we publish 2-6 new articles every day built around innovation and marketing insights from our roster of contributing authors and ad hoc submissions from community members.
Editor’s Note: Innovation Excellence is open to contributions from any and all innovation professionals out there (practitioners, professors, researchers, consultants, authors, etc.) who have a valuable innovation insight to share with everyone for the greater good. How Big Companies Are Becoming Entrepreneurial. Editor’s note: Dan Schawbel is the managing partner of Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and management consulting firm.
He is also the author of Me 2.0 and was named to the Inc. Magazine 30 Under 30 list in 2010. Subscribe to his updates at Facebook.com/DanSchawbel. You probably believe that big companies are anti-entrepreneurial because you assume they are slow growth dinosaurs that resist change, but history teaches us otherwise. Corporations have been run entrepreneurship-type programs for many years, like the fabled Lockheed Martin “Skunk Works” – a small group of employees working on revolutionary products such as famous aircraft designs including the U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird. Today, companies are starting new entrepreneurship initiatives because they need fuel for innovation, desire top talent and need to sustain a competitive advantage.
Intrapreneurship is on the rise In the past, we heard of intrapreneurs or individuals that behave like entrepreneurs in major companies. C. M. Rubin: The Global Search for Education: In Search of Innovation. "We reinvented the notion of a film festival and we were disruptive mainly out of necessity.
" -- Craig Hatkoff "Educate to Innovate," President Obama's campaign for excellence in science, technology, engineering & math, is a call to action that our education system embrace a specific type of orientation. Innovation requires educators to think about a 21st century education incorporating both critical and creative thinking beginning with the earliest years of a student's education. And why is this focus so important? Welcome to the 21st century world of disruptive innovation. Disruptive innovation definition: A disruptive innovation is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually goes on to disrupt an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology. Mathematicians will lead the next consumer tech market disruption.
Innovation from the Edge. Some time ago, Mathew Ingram of Gigaom asked in a post why it is that the NY times and other newspapers don’t create new innovations, like daily deals .
The question inspired an impressive variety of comments, from those who denounced newspapers as “old fashioned” and “change averse” to those who pointed out that a newspaper’s primary mission is journalistic. Whatever your sentiments about newspapers, clearly the problem isn’t exclusive to them. Why didn’t Yahoo invent the search engine? The other side of INNOVATION - Research. The only effective way to study the management of innovation initiatives is to compile in-depth, multi-year case histories.
Doing so is time-consuming and expensive. Thomas Kuhn: the man who changed the way the world looked at science. Fifty years ago this month, one of the most influential books of the 20th century was published by the University of Chicago Press.
Many if not most lay people have probably never heard of its author, Thomas Kuhn, or of his book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, but their thinking has almost certainly been influenced by his ideas. The litmus test is whether you've ever heard or used the term "paradigm shift", which is probably the most used – and abused – term in contemporary discussions of organisational change and intellectual progress. A Google search for it returns more than 10 million hits, for example. And it currently turns up inside no fewer than 18,300 of the books marketed by Amazon. HBS Professor & Disruptive Innovation Expert. It Took Less Than 10 Years for IT Not to Matter. Way back in May 2003, Nick Carr published the article “IT Doesn’t Matter” in the Harvard Business Review.
For those of you who don’t remember it, Carr’s piece was a doozy and then some. He argued that companies paying top dollar for the latest and greatest technological equipment were spending a lot to buy a very limited competitive edge, if any. The chief executive officers of the largest technology companies reacted to this proposition as you might expect. Ignoring all the nuances in Carr’s argument, they viewed it as a wholesale attack on technology. Carly Fiorina, then CEO of Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), called Carr “dead wrong.” In truth, it has taken just about 10 years for Carr’s view of the world to reach mass adoption. Most of the people I talk to these days are like Siobhan McFeeney, who heads up information systems management for the AAA in Northern California, Nevada, and Utah. (Founder Stories) The GroupMe Guys Reveal How To Land A Job At A Startup.
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