Archive for the 'Innovation' Category

In-market Innovation

Alexander Kandybin, Surbhee Grover, and Nami Soejima of Booz & Company write about an alternative product launch strategy that they call in-market innovation. This strategy recommends putting out new products in large volume and letting the marketplace — not focus groups — separate winners from losers. Continue reading…

Managing Flow: A Process Theory of the Knowledge-Based Firm

The recent book of Ikujiro Nonaka, Florian Kohlbacher, Toru Hirata, and Ryoko Toyama (Palgrave 2008) expands the theory of the knowledge creating company (Nonaka, I., and Tacheuchi, H. (1995), The Knowledge Creating Company, Oxford University Press), covering six essential building blocks of knowledge creation within companies,  Continue reading…

Globalisation of R&D and Innovation: Four reports

Four reports on the globalisation of R&D and innovation based on the top 1000 R&D spending companies reveal the hidden dynamics and changing geography of contemporary innovation. Continue reading…

European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009

The European Year of Creativity and Innovation has the objective to raise awareness of importance of creativity and innovation for personal, social and economic development, Continue reading…

Beyond Borders: The Global Innovation 1000

This year’s annual Booz & Company study of corporate R&D spending reveals, for the first time, where in the world the money is being spent — and why. Continue reading…

Three Innovation Strategies

The 2007 Booz Allen Hamilton report on Global Innovation 1000 argues that statistical analysis of a representative sample of global innovation 1000 companies divided them into three distinct categories of innovation strategy: Need Seekers, Market Readers, and Technology Drivers. Continue reading…

Business Week: World’s Most Innovative Companies

Business_Week_LogoBusiness Week has just presented its top list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies categorized by industry. Google, 3M, and Nintendo are three companies that show up multiple times. Continue reading…

10 ideas that are changing the world

TIME MagazineMore than money, more than politics, ideas are the secret power that this planet runs on, according to the latest issue of TIME Magazine. The magazine publishes a list of 10 ideas that are changing the world: Common Wealth, The End of Customer Service, The Post-Movie-Star Era, Reverse Radicalism, Kitchen Chemistry, Geoengineering, Synthetic Authenticity, The New Austerity, Mandatory Health, and Re-Judaizing Jesus. Continue reading…

Innovation ’starts in education’

Innovation NationThe key to the UK becoming a world leader in innovation is to forge closer links between industry and higher education, according to “Innovation Nation” White Paper, published by the Department for innovation, Universities & Skills. Continue reading…

Emerging technologies

emerging-tech-horizon2008.jpg The 2008 Horizon Report  describes six emerging technologies or practices that will likely enter mainstream use in learning-focused organizations within three adoption horizons over the next one to five years. The Report, the fifth in this annual series, is produced as a collaboration between the New Media Consortium (NMC)  and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Continue reading…