http://www.innovationtools.com/news/news.asp Innovation in the News summarizes the latest business news stories about innovation and creativity, and provides you with convenient links to the full stories elsewhere on the Web. en-us http://www.innovationtools.com/news/news-detail.asp?NewsID=5210 Innovate on Purpose (January 31, 2012) - While many firms may need to make a switch from sporadic or occasional innovation, innovators need to provide a roadmap. Here are six factors that must change in order to support this transition. http://www.innovationtools.com/news/news-detail.asp?NewsID=5211 InnovationManagement.se (February 1, 2012) - In these uncertain times, are you ready to take advantage of the opportunities that will arise in the next few years, or are you paralyzed by indecision? Scenario thinking can help you to be part of the first group. http://www.innovationtools.com/news/news-detail.asp?NewsID=5212 InnovationManagement.se (January 30, 2012) - In the 21st century economy, having strong innovation skills is critical. This year, instead of the proverbial New Year's resolution to lose weight or get a new job, why not commit to building your innovation ability? This article discusses the urgency for building your innovation skills, and outlines some simple and effective ways for doing it. http://www.innovationtools.com/news/news-detail.asp?NewsID=5213 InnovationManagement.se (January 26, 2012) - It's clear that social media has had a huge impact on our personal and professional lives. What predictions can we make for the use of social media and related social technologies to improve product innovation? http://www.innovationtools.com/news/news-detail.asp?NewsID=5214 PhilGerbyshak.com (January 30, 2012) - Breaking Away by Jane Stevenson and Bilal Kaafarani is a fantastic book about how great leaders create innovation, and it's filled with tips on how your business can be more innovative without breaking the bank. What follows are some questions that can help your business be more innovative and learn from all the research the authors did for this book. http://www.innovationtools.com/news/news-detail.asp?NewsID=5215 Yahoo Voices (January 10, 2011) - The next time someone comes to you with a wacky, half-formed idea which you can immediately see is riddled with faults, bite your tongue and say the following. http://www.innovationtools.com/news/news-detail.asp?NewsID=5216 Entrepreneur.com (January 26, 2012) - You need a good idea. Startup cash can make a real difference. Business experience and savvy also help, of course. But to take advantage of the most powerful weapon an entrepreneur can have, find a mentor. A good mentor helps you think through a business idea, suggests ways to generate that startup capital and provides the experience and savvy you're missing. http://www.innovationtools.com/news/news-detail.asp?NewsID=5202 Forbes.com (January 30, 2012) - Our mental models play a big role in the pace of innovation. Organizations that breach mental barriers first often outmaneuver their competitors. http://www.innovationtools.com/news/news-detail.asp?NewsID=5203 Forbes.com (January 28, 2012) - The Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, or Davos, rounds out its last full day of sessions today in Davos, Switzerland. For the last three days, 2,500 of the world's leaders convened to discuss global poverty, political upheaval, climate change and whatever else keeps them up at night. The term that is mentioned in the agenda more than any other this year is innovation. http://www.innovationtools.com/news/news-detail.asp?NewsID=5204 New York Times (January 26, 2012) - IN the hunt for innovation, that elusive path to economic growth and corporate prosperity, try a little jazz as an inspirational metaphor. In business as in jazz, the tension between training and improvisation can result in great new works, says John Kao, innovation adviser to corporations and governments. Jazz, Mr. Kao says, demonstrates some of the tensions in innovation, between training and discipline on one side and improvised creativity on the other. http://www.innovationtools.com/news/news-detail.asp?NewsID=5205 FastCompany.com (January 27, 2012) - Design thinking isn't dead. In fact, it's more important than ever, contends Sam Ford. http://www.innovationtools.com/news/news-detail.asp?NewsID=5206 Bloomberg (January 26, 2012) - The travails of Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM), the Ontario-based maker of the BlackBerry mobile messaging device, follow a pattern sadly familiar to technology-company watchers and admirers of classical tragedy. Brave innovation and superb execution create a new market, which the upstart dominates. But ultimately the very scale of the new champion's success drags it down. http://www.innovationtools.com/news/news-detail.asp?NewsID=5207 Think for a Change Blog (January 30, 2012) - Most organizations have at least one failed project that still exists. Like an albatross around the organization's neck, the failure languishes on the portfolio, consuming resources and attention. Day after day, additional time, money and effort are thrown at the failure in the hope that it can be turned around and made a success. You simply need to have the courage to kill the crap and deal with the fact that "sunk cost" cannot be retrieved, saved or salvaged. http://www.innovationtools.com/news/news-detail.asp?NewsID=5208 Innovate on Purpose (January 26, 2012) - People who fall in love with ideas or products often don't have the strength to do what they must: Create a new idea or new product that makes the old one obsolete. http://www.innovationtools.com/news/news-detail.asp?NewsID=5209 Psychology Today (January 28, 2012) - More and more quantum physicists are speculating about a correlation between how our creative minds process thoughts and the way the universe works, according to creativity author Michael Michalko.