Innovation in the News

Using Design to Drive Innovation

BusinessWeek (June 29, 2009) - Designers must deliver the orchestration of the total experience with a brand, product, or service or face irrelevancy.

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Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad

HBS Working Knowledge (June 24, 2009) - innovation is not a side business to a real business. Rather, innovation is the foundation of a successful business.

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7 Ways to Get Rid of Restless Mind Syndrome (RMS)

Huffington Post (June 29, 2009) - The author of this engaging article doesn't have the nervous leg twitching disorder that affects many people, but her mind is another story. It wanders and twitches from one topic to another, buzzing and gurgling with things to do, people to see, wisps of possibilities for the future and images of the past. Here are seven ways to tame your overly-creative brain.

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Unleashing your Creativity

Crinid (June 12, 2009) - There's always going to be a time where you work on a project that demands some creative thinking, and nothing happens. The magic seems temporarily gone and your brain seems unable to get you closer to a Great Idea, that one thought that will spark your creativity and be your muse. Here are six simple techniques that will allow you to unleash your creative potential, and once more set inspiration free inside your mind.

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New web initiative aims to address the future of innovation

BUSINESSWIRE (June 18, 2009) - UTEK Corporation, a leading innovation services company, is pleased to announce the launch of a new website, The Future of Innovation. The initiative represents a unique project which was conceived by innovation experts Drs. Bettina von Stamm, UK and Anna Trifilova, Russia and is proudly sponsored by UTEK Corporation. The Future of Innovation website along with its sister publication of the same name which is to be released by Gower Books this Autumn, represents a community of over 350 leading thinkers in over 60 countries from business, government, consulting and academia who are sharing their thoughts, experiences, dreams, visions, hopes, concerns, and passions around the future of innovation.

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Innovating outside the lines: Harder than we thought

Innovate on Purpose (June 29, 2009) - Literally everything we do in school and in business encourages people to stay "within the lines." Maybe that's why it's so hard to get people to "think outside the box."

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Planning for the Unthinkable Through Relentless Innovation

Permanent Innovation Blog (June 29, 2009) - Joshua Cooper Ramo’s new book, The Age of the Unthinkable, provides a useful portrait of our difficult times, and an even more useful set of frameworks for how we ought to be dealing with it.

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How to approach open innovation

Stefan Lindegaard (June 25, 2009) - Understand that open innovation is only a piece of an overall innovation strategy. To begin, look for opportunities to develop overall open innovation capabilities out of the pockets of open innovation you may already have in your company in areas such as key partnerships, supply chain, value chain, and selected employees with the right mindset and toolbox. Open innovation requires a combination of many elements, which are described in this blog post.

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The full picture of innovation: Observations from Hewlett-Packard, Doblin and IDEO

Stefan Lindegaard (June 23, 2009) - An intrapreneur must have the ability to see and pursue possibilities by piecing together innovations across three or more business functions simultaneously, according to Paul Campbell of Hewlett-Packard.

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Stephen Shapiro named InnoCentive's new chief innovation evangelist

Stephen Shapiro (June 29, 2009) - Innovation author and speaker Stephen Shapiro (a familiar name on the pages of this website) has recently accepted a position as VP of strategic consulting for InnoCentive.

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