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The Bangkok Post Business section picked up on our Innovation Management research, and used a few of the findings to kick off an article on Innovation.

"INNOVATION: ARE YOU TALKING THE WALK OR WALKING THE TALK?

These days, it's impossible to read the business news without finding articles referring to the world of innovation. Companies proclaim they will grow faster than their competitors because they are going to innovate better products.

Self-proclaimed "innovation experts", who in the past sold marketing, benchmarking and Six Sigma as the "one and only way to heaven", have recently jumped on the innovation train. They are now bombarding audiences with shallow articles and low-value talks full of innovation buzzwords, from "out-of-the-box" and "disruptive" to "cutting-edge" and "breakthrough".

Public sector agencies organise conferences and events where the concept of the Creative Economy is rightfully celebrated, but without success lessons being effectively adopted and translated into meaningful policies.

Yes, there's a lot of talk about creativity and innovation. But what about the actual process of innovation itself?

A new global innovation survey conducted by Information Architected Inc, found that 17 out of 20 managers agree that innovation management is critical to their firm's business success. Yet 51% of the companies participating in the survey have no formalised innovation management practice. Half of the participating managers said the lack of a systematic innovation process was the biggest impediment to managing innovation, followed by a lack of innovation resources, leadership and adequate funding. Moreover, 7 out of 10 respondents said the downturn has raised the need to actively manage innovation; but only 24% of firms have done anything specific to manage innovation in the last two years.

So how about your company? Do you still only talk about how important innovation is for your business and how much you are going to innovate soon? Or do you already walk the walk and do what it takes to

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Ron Miller of FierceContentManagement prodded me for some feedback on the social additions to MOSS 2010 after the launch news at Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, but at the time I didn't have time to meet his publication deadline. This time, in a follow-up interview Ron did with Christian Finn at Microsoft, I had a chance to provide commentary based on our research and client work.

Excerpt:
"Dan Keldsen of Information Architected thinks the social features are bound to be behind the curve, just because of the time it takes to develop a product like SharePoint. "Microsoft is always going to lag behind their smaller and more agile competitors. It's simply the nature of the development cycle for Microsoft. Features that were "locked in" for design 2 years ago are finally going to ship in 2010. In the meantime, smaller competitors such as Box.net, PBWorks, SocialText, Jive as well as Google (via Google Apps, Sites and now Wave...) have been running like the wind to build light-weight platforms with social computing features first and foremost, while SharePoint has this functionality added afterwards, clearly as an after-thought.""

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A reference to our 2.0 Adoption research - Resistance is Real (and always has been, BTW)

"As Enterprise 2.0 and social business technologies work their way through the Hype Cycle, the resistance to change understandably receives more attentions. A 2.0 Adoption Council study proclaims “Resistance is Real”. Culture has always been on the radar screen, now it’s right into the practitioner’s face again."

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Good to see that our work is getting wider play - above and beyond the keynote we had done live at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. Stay tuned for more on this research.

"It should not surprise us that the top issue is resistance to change. Readers of this blog know that business projects of every kind suffer from issues related to poor communication, conflicting agendas across information silos, and related organizational causes of failure.

A recent study from Information Architected and The 2.0 Adoption Council also describes resistance to change as the significant barrier. This compelling slide clearly summarizes that message..."

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