Innovation

Employers ask for Facebook passwords but not social skills

Lately there has been a lot of buzz about employers asking potential employees for their Facebook passwords. I heard yet another story about this over the weekend. While I don’t feel employers should be asking for social media passwords, this post is…

April 9, 2012
Mike Rollings

From Design Thinking to Creative Intelligence

Some fans of Design Thinking got very excited about the references to design thinking in the US Army Field Manual 5-0: The Operations Process (pdf), published in March 2010, where design is described as a kind of sensemaking or orientation process -…

April 7, 2012
Richard Veryard

From Design Thinking to Creative Intelligence

April 7, 2012
Richard Veryard

Its Not What You Sell, Its What You Believe – Bill Taylor – Harvard Business Review

“Cook did not respond with a detailed review of the products Apple made or the retail environments in which it sold them. Instead, he offered an impromptu, unscripted statement of what he and everyone at Apple believed — “as if reciting a…

April 5, 2012
Brenda Michelson

IT job postings ask for the wrong thing

My report “Job Postings – Hiring for IT’s Past” published today on Gartner.com. This Gartner for Technical Professionals (GTP) report is a wake-up call for IT organizations because it shows that most IT organizations are hiring for the wrong requirements. In late…

April 5, 2012
Mike Rollings

This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business | Fast Company

“In a big company, you never feel you’re fast enough.” Beth Comstock, the chief marketing officer of GE, is talking to me by phone from the Rosewood Hotel in Menlo Park, California, where she’s visiting entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. She gets a…

April 3, 2012
Brenda Michelson

In Profile, Digital Shoreditch

Figure 1 – The Organic Cluster Silicon Roundabout, is an entrepreneurial cluster which has has grown up around Shoreditch and Old Street in East London, extending to reach the Olympic Park in Stratford. It is a ‘hot ticket’ in terms of innovation…

March 8, 2012
Steve Nimmons

Own Voice First Innovation: A Precursor to Group Brainstorming

I am a something of a cynic when it comes to group brainstorming, unless accompanied by excellent moderation and facilitation and an initial phase of ‘solo thinking’. Group dynamics concern me, and there is significant evidence (from personal experience) and the innovation…

March 4, 2012
Steve Nimmons

Does Architecture Put the No in Innovation?

I cannot hide my love for gadgetry, technical wizardry, or miniaturized electronics. I still have an Apple Newton, a Palm Pilot, and even a Rex PC - a PDA so small (think business card size) it slid into the PCMCIA slot in…

March 2, 2012
Eric Meredith

Does Architecture Put the No in Innovation?

March 2, 2012
Eric Meredith

Open Innovation Signposting

Thanks to my good friend and Open Innovation cohort Francisco De-araujo-roso Pinheiro, for signposting some interesting posts on the 15inno group on LinkedIn from Stefan Lindegaard, and some of the academic work he is guiding with EOI Innovation students. Please read, ruminate,…

February 23, 2012
Steve Nimmons

The Quadruple Helix

The Quadruple Helix – Citizen Engagement in local innovation I am currently researching a number of Open Innovation and Social Networking hypotheses using a specific Tech Cluster as the research vehicle. This work is at a very early stage, but I did…

February 23, 2012
Steve Nimmons

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