4 keys to building a culture of innovation. Stephen Shapiro’s excellent book, 24/7 Innovation, contains a list of four keys to building a culture of innovation, which is one of the best, most concise explanations I’ve seen anywhere. [Innovation Weblog]
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New URL for Charles Cave’s…
New URL for Charles Cave’s creativity Website. Charles Cave’s Creativity Web site, one of the most comprehensive guides to creativity anywhere online, recently moved to a new URL. [Innovation Weblog]
CPS: Creative Problem Solving Technique
Creative Thinking TechniquesThe Creative Problem Solving Process Links originated from the Innovation Tools website; a great site with pointers to brainstorming, creativity, mind-mapping and other innovation techniques. They also have an RSS feed. Pointer from Jim McGee
Business and Innovation [1].
Business and Innovation. Dave Pollard writes that businesses are once again starting at look at innovation as a way to grow, and discusses a survey by the Boston Consulting Group: In what I think is the most useful section of the article, several innovation ‘traps’ are outlined: The Denominator Trap — believing an innovation can capture 100% of an existing…
Russell Ackoff resources on systems…
Russell Ackoff resources on systems thinking. Like Jerry Michalski I’ve long been a fan of Ackoff’s. Here are two posts of Jerry’s from October that provide access to some of Ackoff’s insight and wisdom about how to think about complex design problems. All of these items are worth your time. Idealized redesign I’ve mentioned elsewhere that I’m a big…
Blogs Bubble Into Business [1]….
Blogs Bubble Into Business. Great in-depth article in Computerworld on how enterprise weblogs are being adopted…. [Ross Mayfield’s Weblog]
My Yahoo Beta Tests RSS…
My Yahoo Beta Tests RSS Feeds. Everyone is buzzing about the fact that Yahoo is beta testing the addition of any RSS feed to it’s My Yahoo portal, a move that may signal an inroad to the mainstream. I didn’t want to comment on this until I had a chance to play with it; today I had that chance. Here…
TECH TALK: Rethinking Search: What…
TECH TALK: Rethinking Search: What Others Say. Before we go ahead, here are a few quotes from various publications which give an overview of the action in the Search space: Business Week: ?Google has decided that its customers should gather information through inputs of text search terms by using more or less the same simple interface to search for news,…
TECH TALK: Rethinking Search: What…
TECH TALK: Rethinking Search: What Other Say (Part 2). Wired News: ?As wonderful as Internet search engines are, they have a pretty big flaw. They often deliver too much information, and a lot of it isn’t quite what we’re looking for. Who really bothers to read the dozens of pages of results that Google generates? Some intriguing technologies are getting…
Analyst Best Practices #4: Working…
Analyst Best Practices #4: Working in Distributed Teams. Jeff Nichols over at Pervasive Computing has been running an excellent series of posts about good practices for analysts / consultants that are great guides. As a Road Warrior Consultant / Analysis I am finding them very helpful. Here are links to the first set in the series: Analyst Best Practices 1…