IBM Studie zum Thema Innovationen (PDF)

Global CEO Study 2006 zum Thema “Expanding the Innovation Horizon”: Laden, lesen …?

IBM launches innovation weblog

Following IBM’s recent announcement of its new innovation services group, it should come as no surprise that “Big Blue” has launched a weblog to chronicle its take on business innovation. Called the Next Level Weblog, it focuses on innovation in a number of contexts, including within society, finance, health, IT, marketing, retail and more. It also covers promising innovation trends, pitfalls of innovation and the future enterprise.

The topics posted so far look promising, including these:

* Do you still believe your R&D department is your main source of innovation?
* The language of innovation
* Encourage exploration

This blog is published by IBM Benelux in the Netherlands. It’s not clear if this is simply an “event blog,” trying to build excitement about the division’s “Next Level” innovation seminars, or if it’s part of a larger, overall commitment to sharing its thinking about the challenges and opportunities of business innovation. So far, it looks like the latter, with only a small graphical ad for the Next Level programs.

The promise of open-source innovation

In their new book, Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win, authors William C. Taylor and Polly LaBarre offer some fascinating perspectives and case histories on the topic of open-source innovation.

What is open-source innovation? Its central idea is that companies will succeed at innovation in the 21st century by attracting ideas from the brightest minds anywhere, not just within the organization’s four walls. Open-source software, where thousands of programmers collaborate to write software that is arguably better than any one company could have developed on its own, is a great example of it in action.

MIT - Deans Innovative Leader Series

Zahlreiche interessante Vorträge, teils Print, teils in Videoform: Inspirierend.

Warum Innovationen in Großunternehmen scheitern?

Die Boston Consulting Group (BCG) hat jetzt die 30seitige Studie “Innovation 2006” veröffentlicht, nachdem sie vorher 1.070 Manager in 63 Ländern in allen bedeutenden Branchen befragt hat.

Neben vielen allgemeinen und weniger überraschenden Ergebnissen (für 72 % der Manager gehören Innovationen zu den 3 Top-Themen im Rahmen der strategischen Ausrichtung) wurden 8 Gründe dargestellt, warum Innovationen scheitern bzw. nicht den erwarteten Erfolg bringen:

1. Entwicklungszeiten sind zu lang (32 %)
2. Mangelnde Koordination / Kooperation im Unternehmen (28 %)
3. Zu wenig Information über die Bedürfnisse des Kunden (26 %)
4. Keine “Fehlerkultur” (25 %)
5. Schwierigkeiten bei Auswahl der richtigen Ideen (21 %)
6. Probleme beim Messen des Erfolges (20 %)
7. Mangel an großartigen Ideen (18 %)
8. Erfolglose Vermarktung der Innovation (17 %)

Blogs und Wikis sorgen für Innovation im Unternehmen

Der neue Innovationstreiber im Unternehmen kommt direkt von der Straße und heißt Social Networking. Funktionen wie Blogs und Wikis können starre Arbeitsformen aufbrechen, Wissen aktuell halten und die Kommunikation fördern …

Tom Peters: Education and Third Millennium Work: We’ve Got It Dangerously Wrong

When Tom Peters speaks — “Wow!” — the world of business usually listens.

Education for the Third Millennium ” undoes everything we’ve done in education for the last 100 or so years. Our “system” works. Or, rather, worked. It turns out docile—sit in your seat, Tommy—”products” (humans) perfectly fit to spend 40 years in a Ford Model T plant. And perfectly unfit to be part of the New Brain & Creativity-based Economy! Available in pdf only (49 pages).

New report identifies drivers of innovation

“Renee Hopkins Callahan, editor of the Corante Innovation Hub, and two of her coworkers have written a very interesting white paper entitled, “What Drives Innovation? A Heuristic Framework for Corporate Innovation.” It attempts to identify common innovation drivers that can be linked to the successes and failures of corporate innovation initiatives.

To conduct this research, Callahan, Gwen Smith Ishmael and Leyla Namiranian conducted interviews with executives from across a wide range of industries about recent innovation projects at their organizations. What they discovered was the outcome of these initiatives was not based on specific drivers, but rather that projects were often derailed because of oversights at the front end of the projects, including issues such as: …”

Why Is Innovation So Hard to Sell?

Gute Antworten auf eine gute Frage!