Crowd Innovation

James Todhunter

“Avoid the crowd.  Do your own thinking independently.  Be the chess player, not the chess piece.”— Ralph Charell

Crowdsourcing seems to be a popular topic these days.  But, I can’t help thinking that its popularity will be short lived.  … Read More

Patents – Innovation Killer or Innovation Accelerator

James Todhunter

It seems every time I scan the recent blog postings on innovation, I see at least one or two posts declaring patents are stifling innovation.  This certainly wasn’t the intent of the patent system.  To the contrary, the idea … Read More

The Problem with Ariz and Other Innovation Processes

What is the blinding flash of the obvious that designers of sequential problem solving processes have somehow failed to address before? Step-wise processes will not and cannot work so do not try to create them.Read More

Mimicking Innovation

Cass PursellFor every Google, for every Nintendo, there are a thousand copy cats. Success breeds imitation in innovation, as in everything else. But what is striking to me about the organizations that attempt to mimic another company’s successful innovation process … Read More

National Innovation Initiative

Praveen Gupta

In 2005 US Congress passed the innovation act with the intent of increasing research investment, increasing science and technology talent, and developing an innovation infrastructure. The legislation required to establish the President’s Council on Innovation for promoting innovation in … Read More

Innovation–There and Not There

Jack Hipple

In a Business Week issue last year (Special Report,12/11/06) there was a fascinating article about Best Buy (the giant electonics retailer) pushing the limits of workers not being required to be at their workplaces. This follows trends established by … Read More

Report from the 2nd IberoAmerican Technological Innovation Congress

Ellen Domb

Tuesday was the opening day of the Congress, in Monterrey Mexico, at the conference center of the University Autonoma de Nueva Leon. Amazing view of the city! More than 40 people participated in the tutorial sessions, with the distance … Read More

Creativity and Innovation Management Conference

Praveen Gupta

DePaul University’s Center for Creativity and Innovation held its first annual conference on October 26, 2007. The conference had Matthew Wise, CEO of Q Interactive, Tom Stat, Associate Partner at IDEO, and many other speakers on topics ranging from … Read More

Chicago Innovation Award

Praveen Gupta

Chicago is celebrating its first Innovation Week by holding variety of innovation activies. I had the opportunity to attend Chicago Innovation Award (CIA) celebrations. The Award was created six years ago by Dan Miller, Business Editor of Chicago Sun Times, and Tom Kuczmarski … Read More

Leadership for Innovation

Praveen Gupta

Everyone is talking about innovation in the corporate world. Books, conferences, courses, and presentations abound. Corporate executives are surveyed, and results publicized. Corporations are becoming more innovative just by availability of more information, and networked environment in the flat … Read More

Success through Innovation Conference – Part II

Praveen Gupta

Success Through Innovation: “Profitability and Competitivenessin the European and World Markets” – The EIPC Management Council Meeting

Copenhagen, Denmark, Oct. 10, 2007 (www.eipc.org, www.ipc.org)

After lunch, Konrad Wundt, General Manager of Multiple International Europa talked about the European … Read More

Success Through Innovation Conference – Part I

Praveen Gupta

Success through Innovation: “Profitability and Competitivenessin the European and World Markets” – The EIPC Management Council Meeting

Copenhagen, Denmark, Oct. 10, 2007 (www.eipc.org and www.ipc.org)

Electronics industry has been the driver for dramatic progress for over last twenty … Read More

Scheduled Innovation

Praveen Gupta

In a recent discussion at an innovation conference, someone made a point that scheduled innovation is a contradiction. Innovation is considered to be unpredictable due to uncertain amount of time involved, or the product development cycle.

We have … Read More

Beyond TRIZ – the World of Systematic Innovation

TRIZ is featured on RealInnovation.com, but so are a variety of other systematic innovation methods and tools. The following is a taste of what you may have missed by not reading each Monday’s featured article on Real Innovation.Read More

Microsoft National Innovation Forum – Part IV: The Album and Acknowledgements

Praveen Gupta

Finally, thanks to everyone at the forum, and special thanks to Julie Gatzkiewicz for her superb photography!

Thanks to Simon, Joe, Don, and Shelley Stern Grach for inviting me to the Microsoft National Innovation Forum, and for granting permission to … Read More

Microsoft National Innovation Forum – Part III: Innovation Practices

Praveen Gupta

Welcome to Day 2.

First presentation was titled Customer Needs Management in PLM given by Ed Miller, President of CIM Data. He asked if anyone knew what CIM stood for. He had to answer it, Computer Integrated Manufacturing. … Read More

Microsoft National Innovation Forum – Part II: MS Solutions

Praveen Gupta

Don Richardson gave a presentation about innovation management.  He highlighted business challenges as follows:

• New competition
• Intensely increasing price and cost pressure
• Ever shrinking product lifecycles
• Increasing integration of the worlds economies
• Major technology shifts

Don’s research shows … Read More

Microsoft National Innovation Forum – Part I: The Context

Praveen Gupta

Last week I had a great opportunity to participate in an innovation forum organized by Microsoft in Redmond, WA. Participants included Microsoft’s customers, employees, and partners including affiliates, consultants, professors, and experts. Objective of the forum was to seek input … Read More

Innovation Tours

Praveen Gupta

The Scanlon Leadership Network, with 21 member companies, is committed to learning all they can about Innovation.  The members of the Network have always been innovative in their products, process and people systems but they decided to formally study … Read More

Vintage Drucker on Innovation

Praveen Gupta

Going through my collection of books on innovation, I came across Peter Drucker’s book Innovation and Entrepreneurship. This book was first published in 1986! He was a visionary. It is interesting how he had distinguished the two disciplines. Most … Read More