I think you will like this good read article about innovation by Simon Mosey from Management-Issues.
Excerpt:
"Getting more from less has been one of the big drivers of invention and innovation throughout history. In today's troubled economic climate, innovation and effective decision-making is even more of an imperative."
As a business transformation practitioner, do you connect, share, and grow in the evolving era of “Knowledge Working?" This is a good question. To learn more, click on this article "Knowledge Culture" by Terrence Wing from Learning Solutions Magazine.
Excerpt from The Management Innovation eXchange (MIX):
Bill Gore conceived of W.L. Gore as a kind of experiment in management innovation—one that is still ongoing. The questions that drove him at founding are crucial questions managers everywhere must grapple with today: Was it possible to build a company with no hierarchy—where everyone was free to talk with everyone else? How about a company where there were no bosses, no supervisors, no managers and no vice presidents?
You may want to rethink your business model when doing business in developing countries. Watch this interesting video from Harvard Business Review and learn why disruptive innovation in developing countries means not just making minor changes, but instead "rethinking" your business.
With the rise of Android, the reboot of BlackBerry, and the redesigned iPhone, 2010 can rightly be called the year of the smartphone. After reviewing nearly all of the top devices, here is my countdown of the best devices of the year.
These days, you're as likely to see "innovative" on any given job description as you are to see "strong communication skills" or "team player." But how do you hire innovators? What exactly are you looking for, and more importantly, how do you identify the ability to innovate?
Take this anecdote: Our innovation consultancy recently played host to a rather unusual job interview when a candidate came to us after selling his company, a premium brand of Cachaça (the Brazilian liquor). While still in college, the candidate conceived the brand, sourced it, packaged it, imported it, and distributed it. For his interview, he hosted a Cachaça happy hour in our office, bringing in a bartender and the fresh fruits required to prepare Brazil's signature cocktails.
AT&T promoted the Picturephone as the telephone of the future, but high cost, inconvenience and a lack of compatible devices turned it into the phone of dreams instead. The same fate awaited many more videoconferencing technologies over the following decades, as systems sprouted up in boardrooms and some offices but mostly were reserved for scheduled meetings and for high-level executives.
The Management Innovation eXchange (MIX) is a Web-based open-innovation project dedicated to catalyzing the creativity of thinkers and practitioners interested in reinventing management. That’s not an undertaking for any one individual or organization—it’s everybody’s problem, which is why the MIX is designed as a collaborative platform both to surface bold ideas and make progress on a set of make-or-break challenges.
An impressive list of participants representing money and minds from several continents will converge in this week in São Paulo and in Rio de Janeiro for a series of presentations and conversations designed to foster ongoing communication and information exchange, and to generate direct investment.
Silicon Valley Week in Brazil symbolizes the aspirations of emerging entrepreneurs and economies to become leaders of innovation and wealth creation on the global stage, and represents a significant step in realizing those aspirations.