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Re: Creating a culture of innovation

Martin Owen — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:18:21 -0000

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.

Re: Creating a culture of innovation

alan p — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:08:41 -0000

@ 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 ;)