innovation + creativity

Effective Innovation: Large or Small?

BY Roger SmithTue Aug 9, 2005 at 3:46 PM

Which companies are the most effective in investing in innovation/R&D? Large companies have many more resources to dedicate, but small companies specialize in what they know best. So is there a way to determine which gets the biggest ...READ»

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Get Out

Tue Aug 9, 2005 at 3:41 PM

Studies at the University of Illinois' Human Environment Research Laboratory make the case that symptoms of ADD/ADHD may be greatly reduced by spending time in nature. The greener the setting the more relief. If kids who spend more ...READ»

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Catalyze Curiosity: 7 Tips

Tue Aug 9, 2005 at 1:34 PM

Curiosity helps you clarify problems, ideas, and situations, and it encourages you to explore how they could be different. Actively exploring the environment, asking questions, investigating possibilities, and possessing a sense of ...READ»

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7 Ways to Amplify Your Awareness

Tue Aug 9, 2005 at 11:38 AM

Awareness is a natural human ability and an essential catalyst for Personal Brilliance. When we combine it with the other three catalysts, curiosity, focus, and initiative, we can come up with innovative solutions in all areas of our ...READ»

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Innovators: Made or Born?

Tue Aug 9, 2005 at 9:56 AM

In answer to my earlier post regarding the Four Catalysts of the Habit of Innovation, Elaine Mikesell offered some pertinent questions. She believes that innovative tendencies are "a function of genetics and home and school ...READ»

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Can Innovation Be Bought?

BY Roger SmithTue Aug 9, 2005 at 9:56 AM

In his Harvard Doctoral Dissertation, Saikat Chaudhuri (2004) examines the degree to which acquisitions are an effective path toward adding new technology and new products to a company. Acquisitions can be used as an alternative to ...READ»

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Personal Brilliance: The Four Catalysts

Mon Aug 8, 2005 at 5:36 PM

The idea behind my work on Personal Brilliance is the development of a personal habit of innovation used in all aspects of life. The four catalysts are Awareness, Curiosity, Focus, and Initiative. Awareness involves self-awareness ...READ»

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Innovative Leadership - A Definition and Roll Call

BY Leigh DuncanMon Aug 8, 2005 at 5:19 PM

Thanks for inviting me to BlogJam, heath. As I geared up for the main topic: innovative leadership, I began to think about the nature of leadership and innovation. I thought thought it'd be interesting to start a collaborative roll ...READ»

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End Corporate Constipation

Mon Aug 8, 2005 at 2:50 PM

With all of this talk of pushing creativity and "out of the box thinking," we have to discuss: Is it lack of great ideas or lack of great people who champion ideas that's standing in the way of innovation? Seth Godin has said it a ...READ»

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Kicking But

Mon Aug 8, 2005 at 2:37 PM

I credit Dave Hibbard, founder of Dave Hibbard International with a neat way to push you to think outside the box and innovatively. It's called "The Impossibility Question." Answer the question: "What would be impossible for you to ...READ»

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Creativity Is NOT Innovation

Mon Aug 8, 2005 at 1:52 PM

We've had a great discussion on Top Down vs. Bottom Up. Here's a more straight forward but foundational and definitional item. There is a difference between creativity and innovation. Creativity is the process of generating ...READ»

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Innovation Is All about a Mindset

Mon Aug 8, 2005 at 11:49 AM

I'd like to weigh in on Jeff De Cagna's post "Innovation Requires a Holistic Perspective" and his question regarding the true nature of innovation: is it primarily about the organization or primarily about the individual? Yes, it is ...READ»

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Don't Close the Open Door

BY Kevin OhannessianMon Aug 8, 2005 at 11:44 AM

Miss Hunt's entry on Wikis is right on. I've previously written about such creative democracy. I would hate to see it be changed for the worse. You can't let a few bad apples spoil the bunch. With any collaborative tool there are ...READ»

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Innovation Inside Out

BY Roger SmithMon Aug 8, 2005 at 10:40 AM

There has been some very interesting research on the impacts of intellectual capital on innovation. Specifically, Subramaniam & Youndt studied the impacts of three forms of IC on two forms of innovation. Their findings were ...READ»

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The Innovative Individual

BY Gautam GhoshMon Aug 8, 2005 at 8:54 AM

What Jim Canterucci mentions in his post is a pertinent issue. There is only so much that organizational processes and structures can do to make organizations more innovative. Let us not forget that above all organizations are not ...READ»

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Innovation - Top Down or Bottom Up?

Mon Aug 8, 2005 at 8:11 AM

Can innovation be a top down driven corporate initiative? Or, is innovation dependent on the individual within the organization? Much is being reported about corporate strategies regarding innovation and design -- GE, P&G. I can't ...READ»

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Innovation-Centric Company

BY Roger SmithMon Aug 8, 2005 at 7:39 AM

Companies have historically considered the product to be the core of their business. This has been followed by "service as core" and "process as core." A product-centric company may be something like a mid-20th century General ...READ»

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Patent Happy

Mon Aug 1, 2005 at 12:49 PM

When last we visited our friends in Redmond, we wrote about how money can't buy innovation. Back in December, Carleen Hawn chronicled Microsoft's $6.8 billion in annual R&D spending--and how little of it is spent on breakthrough ...READ»

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Best Business Blogs

BY Heath RowThu Jul 28, 2005 at 5:52 PM

What are your favorite trendspotting and cool hunting blogs? Blogs that track the latest and greatest developments in culture, technology, and design? Tell us.READ»

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Take a Hike

BY Linda TischlerWed Jul 20, 2005 at 6:05 PM

Forget designing quieter cubicles. Companies that really want to maintain a creative edge should install locker rooms with great showerheads for their workers. Not so they can sleep on the office sofa and then get up and work all day ...READ»

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Inventive Designs

BY Heath RowTue Jul 19, 2005 at 1:14 PM

I first learned about TRIZ and its approach to creative problem solving last June. Thanks to a recent blog post by Kevin Kelly, I'm revisiting Genrich Altshuler's design strategies for inventing -- a summary of engineering design ...READ»

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Think Different

Thu Jul 14, 2005 at 3:30 PM

Stanford's Jeffrey Pfeffer, one of my all-time favorite business thinkers, has some new research out that confirms one of Fast Company's long-held beliefs: that competing differently in a marketplace is strategy. In a new research ...READ»

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Fast Food's Smart Move

Mon Jul 11, 2005 at 10:00 AM

The fast-food industry isn't exactly the first thing that comes to mind when someone says "innovation." But if you think of innovation, in its simplest form, as solving an every-day, age-old, why-can't-someone-do-something-about-this ...READ»

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What I Did This Summer: Started an Airline

BY Chuck SalterWed Jun 29, 2005 at 12:19 PM

Plan to stay up for Letterman tomorrow night or at least set your Tivo. Not just to hear the infectious smoothness of the Eels, but to see Martin Halstead. Following the flight paths of Sir Richard Branson and David Neeleman, the ...READ»

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Code Read

BY Heath RowMon Jun 20, 2005 at 1:42 PM

According to the St. Petersburg Times, Sunday is the 31st anniversary of the bar code. The first bar code was used on a pack of Wrigley's gum that was sold in Troy, Ohio. Happy birthday, bar code!READ»

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