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12 Oct 09

Blogging Innovation: Identifying the Innovators in your Firm

"The five attributes the authors identified as relevant for innovation are: associating (making connections across unrelated ideas or problems), questioning (especially focused on "what if" or "why not"), observation (especially observing behavior), experimentation (new experiences or exploration) and networking (especially with people from different industries or perspectives). Let's assume these factors are correct - from my experience they appear to be. Then, let's compare to what happens in many firms today."

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The point here is that most organizations actively work against many of the attributes that would define good innovators.

So, if you are seeking to build an innovation team, or hire people with a greater proclivity for innovation, perhaps you should ask the following questions:

26 Jun 09

Business Strategy Expert Gary Hamel: Ten Tips from the Top

Recognized by Fortune magazine as “the world’s leading strategy expert in business today”,
Gary Hamel has outlined ten design rules for innovation for companies intent on generating sustained wealth in the future:

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10 Feb 09

Social Networking for IT Organizations in a Recession « IT Organization Circa 2017

I’ve been thinking about a couple of things my CIO clients are wrestling with, and how these might be better approached jointly rather than as separate challenges. These are:

1. How to strengthen Business-IT Relationships in the context of the current economic climate.
2. How to experiment with, learn from and foster Social Networking in the business context (rather than the more common “Facebook-like” personal context.
3. How to sharpen and refocus the role of IT for the global recession.

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03 Feb 09

Wikinomics » Blog Archive » Is your Organization Talent Ready?

The very nature of work is changing. It is . . .

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Project driven . . . based on roles not jobs.
Community based . . . the active use of collaboration tools to share information, create relationships, develop insights or create product is the work itself.
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- On demand . . . the style of work is ‘bursty’ meaning its discontinuous and done when required by the work not necessarily during ‘work hours.’
- Golocal” . . . requires that we simultaneously take a global and local approach
- To enable these organizational capabilities, organizations are embracing new competencies like . . .
  
  Agile experimentation for innovation. This means using shorter development cycles with fast feedback enabling an organization to rapidly accelerate when the experiment is successful.
  Or Collaboration which takes on new meaning. This means developing networks and building alliances across boundaries. It’s about routinely contributing to and drawing from others to inform, influence, create and leverage ideas and services.
  Or management competencies that emphasize the ability to engage talent flexibly with well supported processes for developing and maintaining an ‘on-demand pipeline.’