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The best way for large organizations to work through the dilemmas posed by innovation is to borrow from the most powerful innovative force in the world: biological evolution.

Content: Article | Author: Charles Leadbeater | Source: Outlook Journal (Accenture) | Subject: Innovation

Thomas Davenport has helped midwife some of the biggest trends to have shaped business over the past 25 years–among them, reengineering and knowledge management. Now he’s asking: Where do ideas come from? And how do they get traction? Here’s his eight-point plan for winning with ideas.

Content: Article | Author: Bill Breen | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Innovation, People

We have the challenge of making things standardized without letting standardization itself become the new straitjacket. First, I believe that it may kill off common sense-for which I have a high regard-because people honestly believe that the system is what you want them to do, rather than what is sensible. And second, I think it’s the mavericks and maverick thinkers in all of our organizations … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Innovation, Management

A three-part blueprint for building processes for innovation into your organization.

Editor’s Note: for the same basic information in a different format, read “It takes systems, not serendipity: A blueprint for building a disruptive-innovation engine” at:
Content: Article | Authors: Alistair Corbett, Darrell K. Rigby | Sources: Bain & Company, Journal of Business Strategy | Subjects: Innovation, Strategy

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As part of our ongoing research, Arthur D. Little has explored many of the key barriers, enablers, and drivers for innovation management in a wide variety of companies and industries. The firm has also examined many of the key dimensions of the next-generation enterprise, from cross-functional teams and global networks to external sourcing and partnering.

The key findings can be clustered around six critical pathways … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Arun N. Maira, Ron Jonash, Tom Sommerlatte | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subject: Innovation

In this challenging economic climate, many firms are focusing on cost-cutting and on gaining short-term efficiencies. Our study of more than 3,500 consumers suggests, however, that innovation geared toward actual consumer preferences and incomes may be the best tool to achieving valuable long-term results.

Content: Article | Authors: Brian A. Johnson, Paul F. Nunes | Source: Accenture | Subjects: Innovation, Marketing / Sales

An Accenture survey of Chief Executive magazine readers determined that the majority of CEOs feel innovation-in everything from products and services to business models-is one of the five most important factors required for competitive advantage. The research suggests that companies can improve their efforts by focusing on two fronts that are critical for innovation to flourish. They can build the context within their organizations by … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Ajit Kambil | Source: Accenture | Subject: Innovation

Clayton Christensen’s idea of “disruptive innovation” made him the unintended mascot of the dotcom boom. So what’s he thinking now?

Content: Article | Author: Polly LaBarre | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Innovation, People

One important characteristic of the next big thing is that it must have the power to surprise at the time it starts to become big, but surprise only a little bit.It’s not whether you can see it coming; it’s whether your neighbour doesn’t, but only by a little bit. Your neighbour must also share the perception that the next big thing has the power to … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: Innovation, Trends / Analysis

Peter M. Senge offers an excellent look at Peter Drucker’s discipline of innovation (focus on mission, define significant results, and do rigorous assessment), providing along the way some of the best comments about mission and vision that I have ever read.

Content: Article | Author: Peter Senge | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Innovation, Organizational Behavior

Alan Kay’s famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual’s brilliance. It’s not as if innovators’ heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Innovation

In the past, competitive advantage rested on factors such as quality, productivity, access to low-cost resources, and customer service. Today, these factors have become threshold competencies-keenly important, but unlikely by themselves to provide sustainable competitive advantage. Yet many organizations still gauge overall performance by measuring these threshold factors.

Organizations that continue to rely on such traditional measures are locked into the old-and dangerous-paradigm that past success … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Darren Smith, John Collins | Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little) | Subject: Innovation

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This article is for those who want to be actively involved in drafting patent applications on their inventions. Most inventors want to make sure they’re still a full partner on the team when a patent attorney takes over and starts writing the application. Some inventors go beyond that and want to write either or both of the following: (i) a “provisional” patent application, as discussed … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Patrick D. Kelly | Source: The Bent of Tau Beta Pi | Subjects: Innovation, Legal

This report draws on interviews with 581 senior executives across industries in 18 countries, as well as Accenture’s experience in helping companies to deliver innovation.

The study demonstrates how innovative companies have shown themselves to be genuinely open-minded, unafraid of new ideas; ready even to change their most fundamental strategies if that is needed. The study found that the approach of innovators is essentially collaborative, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Accenture | Subject: Innovation

What if innovation could be made routine-if assembly-line procedures could churn out brilliant ideas on command? O’Connor, the founder of online ad wholesaler DoubleClick and an unremitting entrepreneur, relishes innovative ideas-from a youthful scheme to shock a troublesome raccoon to DVD rentals that self-destruct instead of having to be returned-and offers here a “reproducible” process that will “force innovation” and “improve both the numbers and … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Kevin O’Connor, Paul B. Brown | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Innovation

By treating innovation as a legitimate business process, CEOs are encouraging the development of new ideas from a variety of sources – and managing the risk that goes with it.

Content: Article | Author: Jennifer Pellet | Source: Chief Executive | Subject: Innovation