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Micro-blogging vs Mega-blogging — Matt Mullenweg

Whether the Twitter team intended it or not, they’ve built a killer and highly addictive reader platform with dozens of interesting UIs on top of it.

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Can Small Changes Save Your Business, and the Planet? - Andrew Winston - HarvardBusiness.org

When I talk about the incredible value in getting lean, of course I'm channeling Amory Lovins (and many other efficiency proponents). The big idea here is that there are not only low-hanging fruit, but fruit on the ground. Many companies that have aggressively pursued efficiency have found vast amounts of money waiting to be picked up, even if the large-scale savings result from adding up many small changes. For example, Wal-Mart improved the fuel efficiency of its entire fleet by over 25% in just a few years with a range of efforts — from new tires to aerodynamic improvements such as side 'wind skirts' to a larger investment in new auxiliary power systems that eliminate idling. (Note that all the improvements paid back in at most two years, the company's internal hurdle rate for investments.)

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BankerVision: When small innovations are good

Initially, I disagreed with this. Doing small, incremental optimisation sounds rather like doing small, incremental innovation. But then I thought about the question of incremental vs. optimisation in the context of our own definition of innovation: innovation is anything except what we would have done as business as usual.

Optimisation, clearly, is business as usual. Innovation isn’t.

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We Perform Best When No One Tells Us What To Do

According to Dan Pink (lawyer, speech writer, author, and career analyst), the way to get the best original ideas out of people is to cut back on restrictions and rules regarding output, and stop offering incentives for work produced. This may sound a little backwards, but science has shown that sometimes when we offer rewards for output or production, it effects the quality of the ideas or work as opposed to offering no incentive.

In his TED Global 2009 talk last month, Pink said, “There is a disconnect between what science knows and what business does.” And he adds, “Traditional notions of management work great if you want compliance, but if you want engagement, self-direction works best.”

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TheOpen100 - home

This wiki has been created to capture the top 100 open innovation companies and organisations globally. We've posted some of our favourite examples in the table below, from Adobe to Zopa, and given reasons why they qualify as successful open innovators. Please feel free to add to or edit this list, debate and discuss, and add any useful links where possible. Thanks.

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Facebook | Open Innovation in Google

Facebook group tracking Google open innovation topics

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Thinking About Design Thinking

Other disciplines, I'm sure, do one or more of these at any given time. But I think it's the combination of these that people mean--or should mean--when using the phrase "design thinking."

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What's Thwarting American Innovation? Too Much Science, Says Roger Martin | Design of the Times | Fast Company

The problem, says Martin, author of a new book, The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage, is that corporations have pushed analytical thinking so far that it's unproductive. "No idea in the world has been proved in advance with inductive or deductive reasoning," he says.

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Prototype - Six Sigma and Design Thinking - How 2 Methods Should Mix - NYTimes.com

Design thinking offers tools for exploring new markets and opportunities; Six Sigma skills can be applied to improve existing products. Companies that adhere strictly to one or the other risk failure. “The practices that make for success at one time can trap firms and contribute to their downfall at a later time,” says Bob Cole, a quality expert and professor emeritus at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Six Sigma and Design Thinking » Design Thinking

I don’t think that anymore. Having spent more time studying companies like Toyota I have realized that high quality (the goal of Six Sigma) is a great platform for new ideas (the goal of design thinking). Similarly, as Chuck Jones implies, Six Sigma can help new ideas get better faster. Having been involved in several first mover products at IDEO I can attest to the fact that very rarely is that first iteration the best possible product in terms of quality or functionality.

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Micro-blogging vs Mega-blogging — Matt Mullenweg

Can Small Changes Save Your Business, and the Planet? - Andrew Winston - HarvardBusiness.org

BankerVision: When small innovations are good

We Perform Best When No One Tells Us What To Do

TheOpen100 - home

Facebook | Open Innovation in Google

Thinking About Design Thinking

What's Thwarting American Innovation? Too Much Science, Says Roger Martin | Design of the Times | Fast Company

Prototype - Six Sigma and Design Thinking - How 2 Methods Should Mix - NYTimes.com

Six Sigma and Design Thinking » Design Thinking

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