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How Group Dynamics May Be Killing Innovation - Knowledge@Wharton
To come up with the next iPad, Amazon or Facebook, the last thing potential innovators need is a group brainstorm session. What the pacesetters of the future really require, according to new Wharton research, is some time alone. In a paper titled, " Idea Generation and the Quality of the Best Idea (PDF) ," Wharton operations and information management professors Christian Terwiesch and Karl Ulrich argue that group dynamics are the enemy of businesses trying to develop one-of-a-kind new products, unique ways to save money or distinctive marketing strategies. Terwiesch, Ulrich and co-author Karan Girotra, a professor of technology and operations management at INSEAD, found that a hybrid process -- in which people are given time to brainstorm on their own before discussing ideas with their peers -- resulted in more and better quality ideas than a purely team-oriented process.
drawing by hugh mcleod at gaping void C onsulting ‘guru’ Peter Drucker introduced the concept of Management by Objectives in business and government affairs a half-century ago. The idea was that if you set objectives and measure ‘progress’ against them, more will get accomplished. These objectives, he said, had to be ‘SMART’: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-Based. Drucker was one of the last of the old industrial model thinkers, but these ideas have caused a huge amount of damage since he introduced them. Essentially, they mistake complex environments (which most social environments — communities, enterprises and institutions — are) for merely complicated environments.
Not So SMART: Replicating (Instead of Growing) Natural Small Organizations « how to save the world
Where Social Learning Thrives | Learn at All Levels | Fast Company
This blog is written by a member of our expert blogging community and expresses that expert's views alone. To benefit from social learning, build a culture that makes learning fun, productive and commonplace, a culture where learning is part of everyday work. Marcia Conner and Steve LeBlanc look at where social learning thrives. Social learning is not just the technology of social media, although it makes use of it. It is not merely the ability to express yourself in a group of opt-in friends. Social learning combines social media tools with a shift in the corporate culture, a shift that encourages ongoing knowledge transfer and connects people in ways that make learning a joy.
About Education Eye Futurelab's Education Eye brings you a wide range of exciting, relevant and useful innovations which are selected from the best of the web and updated daily. The Eye provides a way to discover, explore and share new ideas. It maps hundreds of the top educational websites, blogs, forums and practitioner case studies. With additional features like saving your own favourite innovations, Futurelab's favourites, customisable email digests, and a widget version, it is invaluable. A searchable, browsable space which leads you to discover new and exciting innovations tailored to the education industry and brought together in one easy-to-use location.
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Don Tapscott ( http://dontapscott.com ; Twitter: @dtapscott) is the author or co-author of thirteen books on technology in society, including Grown Up Digital (2008), Growing Up Digital (1997), and Wikinomics (2006). He is Chairman of the think tank nGenera Insight and an Adjunct Professor at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, and he consults to universities in several countries. Anthony D. Williams ( adw@anthonydwilliams.com ) is a writer, speaker, and co-author of Wikinomics . He recently led nGenera Insight's worldwide investigation into the impact of Web 2.0 and wikinomics on the future of government and democracy. Tapscott and Williams will publish their new book, Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World , in September 2010.
Innovating the 21st-Century University: It’s Time!
Bounded Innovation
I initially considered calling this post "bound and determined" but I could not arrive at a reasonable origin for the phrase, so we won't go there. What I am interested in is defining a platform for successful innovation and ideation. Too often, teams and firms like the "boundless" approach to innovation - that is, we need some NEW IDEAS about something that will help us DO SOMETHING VALUABLE. Often, this is the direction that innovative teams and people receive.One of the interesting challenges that innovation presents is that ideas are often "out of context". That is, ideas may be generated by people who are not responsible for their implementation, or ideas may appear but their scope and value are not clearly defined. When ideas are submitted with no context, they are difficult to evaluate and often don't move through the ideation process. If left without correction, eventually the idea management system becomes overloaded with interesting but ultimately useless ideas that simply sit in the system. This eventually leads to the decision that the system isn't working.
Ideas in Context
VIEW: A unique assessment tool for creative problem solving styles
Yesterday, I participated in a one-day innovation training session for my full-time employer. Prior to this session, all of our staff went online to fill out a problem-solving styles assessment survey. During the morning segment of the training session, the facilitator reviewed the results, and interpreted what they meant in terms of how our staff approaches problem solving, and some things we may need to work on. It was a very valuable exercise! The assessment tool is called VIEW , and it was developed by the Center for Creative Learning. It is designed to help organizations to assess their style preferences when people are solving problems or managing change.
Scott Cook opened CHI 2006 with a plenary on fostering innovation. Live-blogging notes have been posted on the CHI Blog . Here are my notes, which are not a word-by-word report on the talk but more of an annotated reconstruction (quote at your own risk).
Scott Cook, founder of Intuit, talks about innovation at CHI 2006 | AntonellaPavese.com