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Creating a culture of innovation

Started by brisbourne · 6 months ago

After reading on Broadstuff about the hype surrounding the release of Judy Estrin’s new book Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in a Global Economy I thought I would go and check it out. You can get read the first ten or so pages for free on Amazon (handy ... Continue reading »

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  • @ Nic - thanks for the link :-). Left an earlier comment but I think there was a server error, so apologies if this is a rehash.

    My actual interest was not so much the hype, more that there was an interesting phenomenon of new media impact on old methods. The PR campaign was spiking every 2 days or so, this was being picked up on aggregators (eg Techmeme) and thus essentially the same story was popping up there every 2 days - I called it "porpoising PR" as it reminds me of the way they keep on coming out the water ;)

    Re the book itself, I read the reviews and the first few pages online like you. At the risk of being caustic I didn't see anything innovative in what it was saying ;)
  • I agree with Alan.... I think there is a limit in looking at US companies. Nonaka (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Knowledge-creating-Comp...) said and continues to say much more interesting things- particularly about networks and social processes in innovation. There is a deep analysis of how "questioning, risk taking, openness, patience and trust" are actually achieved.

    I also think that ideas about "pull" innovation (eg JSB http://www.johnseelybrown.com/) provide good insight- use your customers and suppliers.

    I also think one difficulty lies in the clear difference between invention - having ideas, research -developing ideas, and innovation - making use of ideas. Invention arrives on the shoulders of giants.

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