Open Access Tipping Point?
The arrival of eLife, a new open access journal, together with new science networking sites and new metrics to measure the impact of research publications may force the pace of change facing the business of scientific and academic publishing. We may be witnessing a tipping point in collaboration, faster access and new opportunities.
Changing Culture by Doing: Using Behavior as a Lever to Improve Innovation Across Complex Companies
It doesn’t matter how many smart processes and methods you have in place unless the culture is right. Take the opportunity to dive deeper into the discussion about innovation culture and learn more about key success factors to operate cultural changes in a complex organization. On May 3rd IM Channel One invites 3 experts from HP, SCA and United HealthCare International to discuss how to use behavior as a lever to improve innovation across complex companies. This expert panel discussion moderated by Gregg Fraley (KILN) will be the first in a series of discussions programmed for 2012 on different topics of interest to the IM community.
Part 1: Competing in the Age of Mass Customization
The concept of "the customer is always right" is taking on a whole new meaning as the the ability to manage personalized products is starting to determine whether your company can keep up with the competition. In part one of this series, Frank Piller, a leading expert on mass customization, personalization and open innovation, discusses the goals, scope and core capabilities of mass customization.
Pulp Innovation Chapter LIV: The Balancing Act
With Marlow's time heavily invested in one potentially big client, his colleagues have been picking up the slack on the other running innovation projects for months. Will Marlow's persistence and investment in the Accipiter project pay off for the firm?
50 Great Innovators, One Better Future
Sustainability may still not be on the top of everyone's priority list, but those who do take green action get results, and big ones. Chris Sherwin, Head of Sustainability at Seymourpowell, shares his reaction to this year's Fast Company 50, where a few pleasantly surprising sustainability innovators could be found among the trend setters.
The Potentially High Cost of not Implementing an Idea
Many managers are very good at working out the cost of implementing an idea. But they often completely fail to calculate the cost of NOT implementing it. This may sometimes be far more expensive than implementing it, especially over the long term, warns Jeffrey Baumgartner.
Big Data: Big Hype or Big Value?
The amount of data organizations are expected to manage for planning, transparency, compliance, etc. is expanding, but the amount of data which could benefit these organizations if analysed effectively is growing exponentially with the aid of social media, RFIDs, machine translators, and other tools. The total amount of digital data is growing exponentially leading to the coining of the term big data which has become a major buzzword in the enterprise and even in the general press, but what is the real value behind the hype?
The Bouillon Soup Lesson: You Cannot Innovate Alone
It is often in the commencement of one’s career that simple mistakes are made. Whether it’s a result of inexperience, blinding enthusiasm or fearlessness doesn’t really matter, as long as the lesson learned serves you, and others, well. Gijs van Wulfen shares a constructive experience from his first innovation position.
Observation Grounds Collaborative Innovation
The practice of collaborative innovation starts with observation: the discipline to see and grasp the nature of the work, the end user’s environment, or the world at large. In this article innovation architect Doug Collins explores how people who lead their organization’s collaborative innovation practice can reinforce community members’ observational skills.
Special Series of Articles on Mass Customization from Frank Piller
The idea that consumers can customize their own products on a massive scale is having a tremendous impact on customer experience and expectations as well as the way organizations approach R&D. Following an extensive study of mass customization in the domain of consumer goods, this upcoming series of articles provides an overview on mass customization, its strategic capabilities, and the success factors that drive its implementation in business.
Pulp Innovation Chapter LIII: Executive Sponsor Selection
With the innovation initiative now under way at Accipiter, it's time to decide which senior executive will sponsor the project. Nerves run high, as the outcome will affect the entire team.
Innovate to Scale
Like a pair of jeans, the difference between a successful innovation and something tight and uncomfortable often comes down to size. A broadening global view of efficiency has increased the importance of scale when it comes to new projects and innovators should take into account social and environmental considerations when determining the scale of their innovations.
12 Innovator Trademarks
Today we're adding a breath of inspiration to the whirlwind of information about how innovation should be managed in the organization. Caspar van Rijnbach provides twelve suggestions of what an innovative leader should be. Do you have more to contribute?
Breaking Language Barriers
Learning a foreign language is exceedingly difficult for many people, but digital technology is making modest translations of text and voice faster, easier, and more accessible. Machine translators (MT) have been around for years, but the level of availability and their quality continue to rise. They promise to cost-effectively unite the world even more than before with a variety of applications from tourism and social collaboration to business and politics.
Innovation: Should you Roll the Dice?
Paul Sloane uses a gambling analogy to show how uncertain innovation is and why senior management isn't likely to approve a new idea after several failures in a row.
The Innovation Knowing-Doing Gap
If you scrutinize the theories on innovation they seem to conclude for example, that ambidextrous organizations are best at handling incremental innovations rather than radical, and if we would focus more on learning, experimental organizations we would be better off… So why don’t we act accordingly? Bengt Järrehult takes a closer look at the reasons why we act against better knowing regarding innovation.
Innovation Through Co-creation: Consumers Can be Creative
A new trend in business and product development is ‘co-creation’. By its very name it implies a collaboration between the company and some other entity. In this case it is the consumer who partners in the creation of value. The term ‘co-creation’ is not new, however, but is now receiving more attention - driven largely through the increasing use of the Internet and social media websites - as companies endeavour to differentiate themselves from the competition.
Pulp Innovation Chapter LII: The Whole Kahuna
It's game time at last - the full innovation immersion program. Susan and Marlow present their plans to encourage much more innovative thinking and new product development, to develop an innovation process and methodology with a centralized innovation team - in short, to change the entire dynamic at Accipiter. Now that the stakes are high, will the CEO keep playing?
Characteristics of Winning Communities for Social Product Innovation
Internal and external communities can bring real value to your organization by providing ideas and feedback for the innovation pipeline. Amy Kenly takes a look at several leading practices companies should consider when managing or participating in these communities.
The Problem with Open Innovation Web Portals
Michael Fruhling doesn't like open innovation portals, in general. What's his problem with them?
Material Disruption Ahead
New materials and processes are proving effective against a growing range of bacteria and have wide ranging applications. Similar approaches may also change the way we clean our clothes and how often we paint our houses. They could also prove disruptive to existing sectors’ income streams.
A New Approach to Manage Disruptive Innovation in an Environment of High Uncertainty
Existing methods for the management of innovation projects have a low probability of success in the development of radical or disruptive innovations. A new spiral approach has been developed that provides the balance of flexibility and control needed for a repeatable and successful approach to disruptive innovation.
Pulp Innovation Chapter LI: On the Brink of Something Big
After months of being given the run around by the executives at Accipiter and with with recent success of the innovation presentation still fresh in his mind, Marlowe contemplates the next steps in the development of their innovation initiative.
How to Get Rid of Old Ideas?
Have you participated in a brainstorming session that felt like wasted time? For some reason no new and interesting ideas were formed? Perhaps you need to get rid of your old ideas first! Gis van Wulfen explains.