InnovationCreation

Innovation along linear thinking versus innovation along non-linear thinking; are they still innovation? In Leading the Revolution by Gary Hamel, discusses how companies that truly are going to grow and really create value in this "new industrial order" will need to think and innovate in a nonlinear fashion.

In a Fortune Magazine article (Aug 2004), Gary says most companies are toxic to innovation:

"Most large companies have a change model that is essentially borrowed from poorly governed Third World dictatorships. The only way you can change them is with a coup. When a company gets into trouble, the board changes the CEO. So many companies think they can only be run by geniuses. Ordinary employees have abdicated their responsibility for being agents of change. Most people's innovation impulses lie dormant as they wait for the great vision to come down from the top."

Can you shake your company's "dictatorship"?

PhRMA's innovation PR spin.

Innovation.org is a direct attempt by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) to spin the word innovation and their industry members. Granted drug companies are innovative. However, this site is a reaction to the bad press that pharmaceutical are getting. Is this 'innovative'?

Audio blog spot: Innovation? Where is it?

Time Man of the Year: Great web site that shows how art can influence innovation. This is not real! However, the ideas and technology presented will provoke, prod, and prickle your mind.

For more information on the group behind this, see the Paperveins Museum of Art.

Innovation from the market.

Bio 2004 provided a sense of where the life sciences market is going. Here innovation is measured in terms of investments and returns via IPO and increased valuations.

Jeff Hawkins, about innovation, very succinctly answered the question: Can a company be a big innovator?

"Companies don't innovate; people do. If you're going to innovate, you have to overcome problems. In a startup, you're going to have all these people telling you you're wrong. If you're at a big company, you're going to have all these people telling you you're wrong. It takes a lot of nerve and perseverance. You have to keep fighting the battles."