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Idea Generation
Creativity is a way of thinking and doing. You do not have to be an artist, performer, musician or film-maker to be creative - though thinking creatively could help you.
Innovation processes and tools inter-connect people, content, activities, channels and environments throughout the organization. They help people learn how to engage in ways to produce new ideas.
We're moving away from a product-driven value model to an idea generation value model. Are you skilled up for this? Have you developed a habit of mind for thinking creatively?
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HOW CAN I BE MORE INNOVATIVE?
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Sometimes we're the most creative when faced with the urgent need to solve something.- Take calculated chances. Follow your instincts once in awhile.
- Stop requiring that everything be done according to the way it has always been done - try doing it differently
- Cross-fertilize ideas across disciplines - shift the perspectives and see things freshly
- Experiment with inventive thinking
- Let yourself feel inspired - and think of ways to inspire others
- Play with ideas and people and put them into new contexts
- According to Einstein "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
GET A LEADING EDGE
books on "CREATIVE INNOVATION" from Amazon
HOT IDEA! HOT THINKING!
sparking and inspiring
A hot new idea - or hot new thinking - to trigger your own ideas. Sometimes, if a topic is hot and draws lots of interest, it stays up for a couple of months.
Social responsibility and sustainability are the hot topics this year. How do we face that together? What can we really do as individuals in our homes, communities, businesses and countries to reduce our carbon footprint? How do we build a sustainable future together?
A New Zealand company has applied to patent Celsias.com, the world's first online community that allows regions, businesses or community groups to be paid for reducing the carbon emissions from their everyday energy use. Celsias.com is based upon a fast growing global economy that recognizes energy savings, or carbon credits, as a form of currency.
Read their blog to follow what they're doing.
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the new literacy skills
Henry Jenkins from M.I.T. has published a white paper that helps redefine literacy in the 21st century. He looks at the needed skills in this new media culture, like building affinity spaces and collective intelligence through participation and play. He also addresses the cultural and commercial gaps that are emerging, caused by not having those skills.
Download Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education of the 21st Century. Henry is also the author of the book Convergence Culture.
Here are a few postings from Henry's blog:
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Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
Amazon Price: $19.77 (as of 10/12/2008)
Quantum-playshuns
a blog about innovative practices
In my blog, you'll find links to how science, technology, education, and business converge in worlds of communication, collaboration and creativity through people and their media. Join the discussion where it interests you.
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entrepreneurial approaches to successful innovation
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PURPOSE & POSITIONING
what purpose can I serve to create value?
This is about personal innovation.Keep asking yourself "What purpose can I serve for this particular group of people using what makes me unique - my special combination of talents, skills, abilities and contacts?"
Look at how serving this purpose for different groups sets up particular roles for you to play in different situations.
Allow yourself to evolve in these new situations. Give others the space to do the same. Voila! New opportunities surface.
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PRESENCE & PURPOSE IN OUR WORK
books from Amazon
Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose
Amazon Price: $19.79 (as of 10/12/2008)
The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style and Your Life
Amazon Price: $23.10 (as of 10/12/2008)
Who Really Matters: The Core Group Theory of Power, Privilege, and Success
Amazon Price: $19.77 (as of 10/12/2008)
Presence
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Pursuit of Passionate Purpose: Success Strategies for a Rewarding Personal and Business Life
Amazon Price: $24.95 (as of 10/12/2008)
GAMES & LEARNING
Building the Field of Digital Media & Learning
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Summit on Educational Games
harnessing the power of video games for learning0 points
COMMUNICATE!
Getting it out of my head & putting it to work
Are your "target markets" - that you've invested millions in broadcasting and advertising to - actually dynamic brand communities waiting to engage in a real dialogue with you?Wouldn't it be innovative to just start conversing with them about what creates value for all involved?
Whatever practical, inspirational or methodical way we use, we have to get those ideas out of our heads and into the hearts and minds of others. And...to really listen to what others are trying to share with you. This takes communication skills.
What do you do to get the stuff from your head out into the world to create value for yourself and others?
-- What are your communication tools of choice?
-- What drives your choices?
-- Do you have a PIMS - a Personal Information Management Strategy - to help you manage the content you need to use as a resource for communication?
Check out the Squidoo lens How 2 Connect using Social Media to get geared up.
Essential to being innovative is personal development.
Use the strategies from the Squidoo lens The Evolutionary Brand Called M.E. - My Emergence to help you figure out your engagement and communication style.
WORD A DAY INSPIRATION
learn not only a new word, but it's context
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Sites bookmarked and tagged "IDEAS"
just a click away from your next idea
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IN-SITES
Places to enrich your thinking about innovation
- Change This!
- Spreading ideas P2P through PDFs, blogs and the web
- Institute of Ideas
- "The legacy of the Enlightenment: scientific and social experimentation, intellectual ambition and curiosity Embracing change and making history Art for art's sake, knowledge for its own sake, and education as an end in itself. Freedom. To think, to act, to say what needs saying - even if it offends others Challenging irrational social panics Open and robust debate, in which ideas can be interrogated, argued for and fought over."
- Quantum-playshuns
- Brand innovation practices building communities of practice and new ways to generate value streams through idea generation
THE 10 MOST ENDURING IDEAS
Of all the ideas "strategy+business magazine" has covered, which are most likely to endure for at least another 10 years?
Here are the winners - THE 10 MOST ENDURING IDEAS - voted most likely to affect the way we run our businesses.
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- EXECUTION (1,911 votes; 49.3 percent of the voters chose this concept). It's not your strategic choices that drive success, but how well you implement them.
- THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION (1,807; 46.6 percent). A learning organization is one that is deliberately designed to encourage everyone in it to keep thinking, innovating, collaborating, talking candidly, improving their capabilities, making personal commitments to their collective future, and thereby increasing the firm's long-term competitive advantage.
- CORPORATE VALUES (1,555; 40.1 percent). Companies that care about ethics, trust, citizenship, and even meaning and spirituality in the workplace (or that simply articulate their values carefully) perform better in the marketplace than companies that care just about "making money."
- CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (1,554; 40.1 percent). The cultivation of long-term relationships with customers, including awareness of their needs, leads to highly focused, capable companies that try to make consumers "part of the family."
- DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY (1,513; 39.0 percent). As Clayton Christensen noted in The Innovator's Dilemma, technological innovation radically alters markets by undermining incumbent companies - which are vulnerable because their offerings are all tailored to the needs of their existing customers.
- LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT (1,432; 37.0 percent): You don't have to rely on "putting the right people in place." You can train all employees to be better choosers, better strategists, better managers, and in the end, better leaders.
- ORGANIZATIONAL DNA (1,315; 33.9 percent): Leaders can design an organization's structures - incentives, decision rights, reporting relationships, and information flows - to induce high performance by aligning them with one another and the strategic goals of the enterprise.
- STRATEGY BASED TRANSFORMATION (1,277; 33.0 percent): Beyond the "blank page" of reengineering, this is the redesign of processes and organizational structures, and the consequent cultural change, to fulfill the strategic goals of the enterprise. In an ideal universe, this would not even be a management concept, because, as one correspondent put it, "All company activities should be aligned to the enterprise strategy."
- COMPLEXITY THEORY (1,187; 30.6 percent): Markets and businesses are complex systems that can't be controlled mechanistically, but their emergent order can sometimes be anticipated. An understanding of the ways that complex systems evolve can help managers intervene and act more effectively.
- LEAN THINKING (1,183; 30.5 percent): This type of process and management innovation is exemplified by the Toyota production system. Employees use a heightened awareness of work flow and demand to cut waste, eliminate cost, boost quality, and customize mass production. Said one anonymous correspondent, "It combines with complexity theory, emergent behavior, wisdom of crowds, disruption, and agile thinking to extend into areas like R&D to redefine innovation practices. Management thinking will need to change to address these fertile intersections."
Books on how to get ideas to work
INNOVATION TOOLS WEBLOG
a resource for inspiration and practical ways forward
Read the latest innovation trends, news, technology, resources and viewpoints - including innovation research, best practices and strategies; innovation management; business use of blogs for ideation and collaboration...and so much more...
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Listen to what's accelerating change
Links to podcasts for download - or listen online - to keep you in touch with what's accelerating change.
Two hot programs:
-- Listen to ProgrammableWeb to learn about the hottest "mashups".
-- John Smart shares the philosophy guiding the Accelerating Studies Foundation, and how we can accelerate change and keep pace with changes already occurring.
The most recent Podcasts:
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learn more from these books from Amazon
A Guide To Collaboration For IEP Teams
Amazon Price: $18.96 (as of 10/12/2008)
Developing effective collaboration teams in speech-language pathology: a case study.: An article from: Communication Disorders Quarterly
Amazon Price: $5.95 (as of 10/12/2008)
Professional collaboration: A team approach to health care (Clinical series)
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COLLABORATION IS KEY TO INNOVATION
Innovation begins with collaboration
Do you know the difference between teamwork and collaboration?Teamwork is essential because it gives you a group of people who have found a rhythm of working together to consistently deliver results...AND...who can expand on your own talents, skills, abilities...just as you can with theirs.
Learning how to collaborate can bring you great rewards by giving your ideas different places to find roots, grow and bloom into something of value for your self and for others.
Invest your time and effort into successful collaboration.
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It's time to re-evaluate our thinking about leadership. 21st century leadership is about collaboration practices for sharing and building on knowledge and generating new value streams from that practice. It's "evolutionary leadership". Do you have the skill sets for that? Share your ideas, success stories and failures, too.
NETWORKING
groups to connect my interests with theirs
- an international networking site with so many opportunities to team up, share, play and share ideas
- an international business networking site for building a network and qualifying your contacts
- Xing (former OpenBC)
- an international business networking site with a more European slant
- Amodus
- for the more intellectual or creative types with development in mind
WINNING BY SHARING
The more you share, the more you gain
- Winning by Sharing
- Leon Benjamin's book based on experiences of this nature. There are also lots of downloads and inspiration here.
DYNAMIC TOOLS
Keeping up with the tools that enable innovation
- Share Skype
Use Skype to transform how you communicate - use the internet like a phone
.- YackPack
simple, web-based voice messaging for groups. send audio messages to your private "packs" - friends, family, teams - with tag cloud of their photo icons - audio explanation with visuals to get started
.- Google Labs
prototypes for getting the best out of Google
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CREATIVE TECHNIQUES
resources to tickle your creativity
- Inspired by Dee Hock, the man who turned Visa into a top performing global company, The Chaordic Commons is pioneering new ways to organize based on the chaordic principle - the phase between chaos and order. With a library full of presentations, reading lists, projects, speeches.
- 200 different creativity techniques and tools to inspire you, challenge you, and encourage you to be more innovative.
- Dave Gray's Squidoo Lens: Visual Thinking School helps you use pictures to solve problems
CHARTING THE INNOVATION PROCESS INSIDE THE BUSINESS
strategically profiling the brand and the business processes
We just a need a clear path forward to know WHAT to do
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process for building a networked brand organization
process of business innovation
INNOVATING A CATEGORY: BOOKS
people and organizations redefining categories
What is the future of books?Clifford Lynch has written a paper about the role of books in a digital world.
"This paper examines competing visions for the future of the book in the digital environment, with particular attention to questions about the social implications of controls over intellectual property, such as continuity of cultural memory."
What will be the role of books in the future?
Will books become cultural relics?
Just found: Great link list of resources at The Institute for the Future of the Book. Thanks, Joerg!
There is also a blog about the future of the book.
PAPERS & JOURNALS
from those exploring the innovation processes
inspiration or a bit of knowing "who's doing what and how" can help us figure out how to go further
- Stanford Social Innovation Review
- practical and provocative ideas for socially responsible businesses
- Technology Innovation
- the role of innovative partnerships in space exploration
- The Innovation Journal
- independent internet-based journal devoted to sharing ideas on public sector innovation with an archive of case studies and past issues.
- Innovation as a Deep Capability
- article from Leader to Leader Institute from winter 2003 touches on issues inside business models
- The TRIZ Journal
- for people interested in the TRIZ - Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) - methods of creativity and innovation
- A Propulsion Model of Creative Leadership
- download this paper from The Creativity and Innovation Management Journal
- Harvard Papers
- on science, technology and innovation
- Exploring Innovation as a Culture
- proposal to the Dutch Government on how to address innovation issues
BRAND NEW DAY
The Brand Review from Business Week
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