Marketing & Innovation
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Innovation: Moss Kanter describes innovation classic traps
What are the most obvious of innovation traps? Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the former chief editor of the Harvard Business Review, a distinguished Professor at Harvard and an innovation pundit. Innovation: Moss Kanter describes innovation classic traps Now she contributes to the review from time to time and she is…
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MIT digital drawing board: Innovation, really?
In the following video presentation, you will discover the so-called MIT digital drawing board complete with geometrical recognition and simulation of movements. What can this video teach us on innovation? Quite a lot in fact! MIT digital drawing board: Innovation is in the eye of the beholder Everybody on the…
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The Innovation Game Has Changed, BCG’s Andrew Says
In a Chicago Business article BCG’s head of global innovation practice James Andrew is putting his trotters in the trough: Innovation is no longer an option, he tells journalist Samantha Stainburn. Before the world got so flat, cost differentiation was enough to position an average big company but this is…
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Joint innovation program: a methodological perspective
This whitepaper is the foundation for the Joint Innovation Program, the program that I have developed for Orange Business Services. It is aimed at delivering joint innovative projects, mainly in the framework of outsourcing contracts. A methodological perspective on joint Innovation A high-level view When innovation is discussed, people often say,…
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Innovation is like a dishwasher
I found this cartoon which I found very apt on Joyce Wycoff’s Innovation network. Innovation is like… — innovation is like a dishwasher — making life easier? — Nah, Requires energy and someone to use it! More cartoons are available here
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8 tips to improve your group brainstorming sessions
Robert Sutton is delivering 8 tips to improve your group brainstorming sessions in Businessweek. He is also quoting a Wall Street Journal article entitled “Brainstorming Works Best if People Scramble For Ideas on Their Own.” This will remind our readers of another post where some Dutch researchers claimed that Group…
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BusinessWeek provides list of innovative companies
Check this issue of BusinessWeek for a list of the best innovative companies listed by BusinessWeek and the Boston Consulting Group in 2006. Ranking available here. Business week’s top 10 list (see picture on the left) includes just one European company (Nokia). It is difficult to evaluate such a list. Should…
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The Innovation Machine is a must-read for would be innovators
An innovation machine? Come on! Baumgartner, the founder of the jpb.com group of companies and the developer of the Jenni idea campaign management software is posting a whitepaper on his website describing how you can set up an innovation strategy for your corporate organisation. The picture on the cover (see…
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Is Apple a good example of an innovative company? … after all
Is Apple really so innovative? In a ZDNet article published yesterday entitled ‘Where Apple fails’ Michael Kanellos has a readymade answer for that question: Definitely no! Kanellos shows that Apple’s market share has fallen below the 2.5% par and therefore, amounts to virtually nothing. In my “ICT Marketing” book (available…
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Yahoo! launches new AJAX-based webmail Beta
At last! It is now available. The much-awaited Ajax-based version of Yahoo mail – in beta version – is now available to those who registered for its trial at http://mail.yahoo.com. Some of the main new features include: automatic refresh to fetch out new mails, composing emails in rich format, automatic…
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MS employee Who daPunk wants Management to be fired
Microsoft has decided to postpone the launch of its much-awaited Vista operating software. Here is an article from ‘The Register‘ describing the hooha it prompted within Ms employees. Some of them do not hesitate to post angry comments on their Internet blogs. An individual who goes by the nickname of…
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Brianna Sylver claims that defining innovation is a must
Innovation is one of these words we use all the time and eventually, it ends up being some sort of bingo buzzword. Brianna Sylver urges us to take some hindsight and start defining this term before trying to … uh uh … innovate! Brianna Sylver claims that defining innovation is…
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