Archive for June, 2007
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Whirlwind trip (out of the office)
Retrospective out of office notification : Just got back from a whirlwind trip : Singapore-London-Hague-London-Sydney. In a mere eight days. Is there some sort of prize for this type of itinerary? Like copious quantities of sleep?? Or maybe a free refill of melatonin…
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Thursday, June 28th, 2007
You know innovation is mainstream when…
I was listening to the radio this morning when the Arctic Monkeys came on. In the middle of the tune “Brain Storm” came a line which made me stop dead. It went “see you later innovator.” You can verify this here. The jury is out as to whether this means that innovation is waaay cool [...]
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Monday, June 11th, 2007
Processes vs innovation at 3M (BusinessWeek)
BusinessWeek has a fascinating insight into the old, new and then the new-old (stay with me here) cultures around innovation at 3M. If you are familiar with the story of the company that bought you Art Fry and the Post-It, this is still worth a read and looks at Six Sigma vs free thinking. Or, [...]
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Friday, June 1st, 2007
Corporate refugees
Every so often you meet people in innovation who really understand what it’s about. I mean : really understand. Inevitably one of the questions that I ask is what’s their background? After the second or third time asking this question I gave up being surprised by the answers. Inevitably those that are passionate about innovation [...]
