CHART OF THE DAY: Remember Google Wave? Blogging Innovation » The Nine Innovation Roles. I’m seeing an increasing number of articles about innovation personalities and the like, and I’m a firm believer that it’s not personalities that matter so much when it comes to innovation, it’s the roles that we play in making innovation happen (or not). So, I would like to add my Nine Innovation Roles to the conversation. The following is an excerpt from my book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire: Too often we treat people as commodities that are interchangeable and maintain the same characteristics and aptitudes. Of course, we know that people are not interchangeable, yet we continually pretend that they are anyway — to make life simpler for our reptile brain to comprehend.
Deep down we know that people have different passions, skills, and potential, but even when it comes to innovation, we expect everybody to have good ideas. I’m of the opinion that all people are creative, in their own way. Here are The Nine Innovation Roles: 1. 2. 3. The Connector does just that. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. The New Arithmetic of Collaboration - Navi Radjou, Jaideep Prabhu, Prasad Kaipa, Simone Ahuja - The Conversation. Roles on a Team and How They Apply to the Enterprise. What Giving Gets You at the Office - Shawn Achor.
Google Apps Marketplace: 6 Great Apps to Try Now. Last night at its Campfire One event, Google officially launched the Google Apps Marketplace. The Google Apps Marketplace offers third-party developers and services a way to integrate directly with the Google Apps platform and sell that integration at whatever price point they choose. This is a huge win for the cloud because it finally allows other cloud services to tap into some of Google's APIs for things like Gmail and Google Docs at a much deeper level, which can benefit their own customers, as well as offering additional value to Google Apps itself. Although the launch was yesterday, many companies and developers have been preparing for this event for quite some time and a number of very cool and useful apps are already available in the Marketplace. Here are just a few that stand out to us. 1. Zoho for Google Apps Zoho and Google Apps actually offer a lot of the same services: hosted email, word processing, spreadsheet and presentation tools, wikis, chat, etc. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
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