Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
How paradigms form – NYT article
During a conversation with Denis Dutton (of the always good Arts and Letters Daily) he pointed me to a fascinating article about the formation of the current paradigm that surrounds popular thinking on diets and heart disease. There’s a great extract which gets to the heart of the matter (excuse the pun – which you’ll [...]
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
Economist special report on innovation
Fresh off the virtual presses is a special report on innovation from The Economist. My colleague – and founder of Innovaro – Tim Jones was interviewed for the section and shares an insight on innovation in the mobile industry in Africa. At the moment the whole report is available as a free download here. First [...]
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
“Intellectual prototyping”
Bruce Nussbaum has a great quote on his blog which – in the field of innovation – resonated strongly with me. “Blogging is intellectual prototyping.” Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Gary Hamel on management innovation
The HBR is publishing excerpts from Gary Hamels latest book. It’s an interesting read, especially when he starts discussing management innovation. Not all types of innovation are created equal. When focused on big, chunky problems, management innovation possesses a unique capacity to create difficult-to-duplicate advantages. Why? Become some heresies are more heretical than others. You, [...]
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
The new symbol of innovation – the daffodil bulb
Over at Endless Innovation Dominic points out that GE, “the very company that gave birth to the light bulb is scaling back its light bulb business,” as energy efficient bulbs take over. Dominic points out that as a symbol of innovation, the light bulb is completely overused, and I thoroughly agree. He poses the question [...]
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Friday, October 5th, 2007
Inspiration in unexpected places
From an article in the FT (admittedly a while ago, but I’m playing catchup) comes this great little quote about the Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Holidaying executives, hoping to recharge amid all this artistic experimentation, might not expect to pick up ideas to take back to work with them in September. But perhaps they shouldn’t switch [...]
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Friday, October 5th, 2007
Humility
Slightly off topic, but worth noting an article in the recent issue of Technology Review. It’s an extract from the autobiography of James Watson. Never be the brightest person in a room Getting out of intellectual ruts more often than not requires unexpected intellectual jousts. Nothing can replace the company of others who have the [...]
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Leapfrog Innovation – Zune vs iPod
Apple is a great example – probably the best – of a company that keeps one step ahead of everyone. While other companies rush to copy the current product line, Apple is already about to release the next “big thing.” It not only releases a new product, but it kills off the older lines -the [...]
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Disruptive business models – the music industry
Radiohead is conducting an interesting experiment in business model innovation. While musicians are known to be creative, their contracts with the more conservative parts of the music industry generally stop them innovating their way out of business. As it is not currently tied to a record label, the band is not bound by the same [...]
