Tags // Innovation
Wired: Futurist Fears End of Innovation
Wired: Futurist Fears End of Innovation"Rheingold warned that attempts to stifle innovation would have dire consequences. He reminded the audience that Unix, the Internet and the Web were all open systems built collectively, by collaborating parties. If the government or big corporations had been charged with building the Web, they'd still be struggling with it in our grandchildren's lifetimes, he said."
innovation Add tag Permalink | Friday, April 25, 2003
DM Review: Knowledge Management: The Art of Enhancing Productivity and Innovation with the Human Res
DM Review: Knowledge Management: The Art of Enhancing Productivity and Innovation with the Human Resources in Your Organization" The knowledge-enhancement process is further augmented by the utilization of online analytical processing (OLAP) which facilitates an interactive analytic methodology where decision-makers can identify elements of failure or success corresponding to business processes (sales, CRM, supply chain, marketing or production). The business intelligence (BI) implementation is then extended by data mining which provides perhaps the most significant knowledge enhancer by enabling decision-makers to perform "what-if" simulations and identify reliable relationships among business variables. The final result is a better informed decision-maker who uses the corresponding information along with experiences in the marketplace to formulate strategies."
knowledge management, innovation Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, April 15, 2003
Harvard Working Knowledge: Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
HBS Working Knowledge: Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive InnovationThe problem is, managers all too frequently use a one-size-fits-all theory. But the ground beneath them inevitably shifts. Strategies that worked so wonderfully in the past no longer suffice. Drawing on the work of a number of thoughtful researchers as well as our own work, we are exploring a set of theories that can help managers respond to the ever-changing circumstances in which they find themselves. Specifically, these six lessons will help managers make the right decisions to successfully build new-growth businesses.
innovation Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, March 11, 2003
IBM: Challenges in managing organizational knowledge
IBM: Challenges in managing organizational knowledgeMany firms have undertaken formal and informal knowledge management initiatives designed to improve process performance, increase customer responsiveness and spur innovation. But while some organizations have reaped significant benefits from their investment in knowledge efforts, others have run into noteworthy challenges...
- Failure to align knowledge management efforts with the organization
innovation Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, February 18, 2003
Educause: Disruption in Education
Educause: Disruption in Education"In this chapter, we highlight the key insights of our research in disruptive innovation...Understanding the disruptive education theory will help leaders in the education industry better understand questions such as, Where is online learning most likely to succeed..."
[Note: PDF, 1.2MB]
innovation Add tag Permalink | Monday, February 10, 2003
Leader to Leader Institute: Innovation as a Deep Capability
Leader to Leader Institute: Innovation as a Deep CapabilityGary Hamel: There are two core challenges to making innovation a deep capability in any organization. First, most companies have a very narrow idea of innovation, usually focusing just on products and services. We need to enlarge our view of innovation. Second, most companies devote much more energy to optimizing what is there than to imagining what could be. We need to create constituencies for "What Could Be."
innovation Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, January 28, 2003
Technology Review: Creating a Culture of Ideas
Technology Review: Creating a Culture of IdeasNicholas Negroponte: So what makes innovation happen, and just where do new ideas come from? The basic answers--providing a good educational system, encouraging different viewpoints, and fostering collaboration--may not be surprising. Moreover, the ability to fulfill these criteria has served the United States well. But some things--the nature of higher education among them--will have to change in order to ensure a perpetual source of new ideas.
innovation Add tag Permalink | Monday, January 27, 2003
Pipeline & Gas Journal: Enterprise Training System Is Trans-Alaska Pipeline’s Latest Safety Innovati
Pipeline & Gas Journal: Enterprise Training System Is Trans-Alaska Pipeline's Latest Safety Innovation"Tim Harvey, the training director for Alaska's Alyeska Pipeline, wrote a piece for Pipeline & Gas Journal about how they implemented an LMS to help train workers in remote locations and comply with the DOT's new OQ (Operator Qualification) regulations... Nice story about how eLearning can help in the real world."
[Note: Pdf document, 1.8MB]
innovation Add tag Permalink | Thursday, January 23, 2003
Elearn Magazine: Teamrooms: Tapping the Collaborative Learning Advantage
Elearn Magazine: Teamrooms: Tapping the Collaborative Learning Advantage"Teamrooms as a class of Web collaboration tools are taking hold in corporations, but will they live up to their promise? This article deals with the change and adoption issues around teamrooms, covering such topics as usability, group behavior, corporate structures, leadership, and innovation. Several design and training considerations that support successful adoption of teamrooms are offered."
innovation Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, January 08, 2003
Workforce: Building Business Value Through
Workforce: Building Business Value Through "Communities of Practice"Researchers at IBM
community, innovation Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, January 07, 2003
HBS Working Knowledge: Moving Beyond the Classroom With Executive Education
HBS Working Knowledge: Moving Beyond the Classroom With Executive Education"In April, Harvard Business School professor Dorothy Leonard brought leading experts on education together at the Adult Learning Workshop to answer this fundamental question: To what extent should the traditional face-to-face classroom experience serve as the model for online programs? Participants included MIT Senior Lecturer Peter Senge, a Founding Chair of the Society for Organizational Learning; John Seely Brown, Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation; and Chris Dede, Timothy E. Wirth Professor of Learning Technologies at Harvard's Graduate School of Education.
Using materials from the workshop and an interview and working papers provided by Leonard, this report explores issues such as mentoring, coaching, distance learning and other components confronting the modern learning organization."
innovation, organizational learning Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, December 18, 2002
Syllabus: The Electronic Portfolio Boom: What’s it All About?
Syllabus: The Electronic Portfolio Boom: What's it All About?"We seem to be beginning a new wave of technology development in higher education. Freeing student work from paper and making it organized, searchable, and transportable opens enormous possibilities for re-thinking whole curricula: the evaluation of faculty, assessment of programs, certification of student work, how accreditation works. In short, ePortfolios might be the biggest thing in technology innovation on campus. Electronic portfolios have a greater potential to alter higher education at its very core than any other technology application we've known thus far. "
innovation Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, December 11, 2002
Educational Technology & Society: Innovations in Learning Technology
Educational Technology & Society: Innovations in Learning TechnologyNice collection of articles, but be forewarned, some are heavy reads. The theme of this issue is "Innovations in Learning Technology"
innovation Add tag Permalink | Thursday, December 05, 2002
Fast Company: Innovation Now
Fast Company: Innovation NowGary Hamel: "The problem isn't that companies are wrong to worry about efficiency. The problem is that companies aren't imaginative in the ways that they worry about efficiency. So fine, let's get back to basics. But if you want to outperform your lackluster peers, you're going to have to bring more than basic thinking to the basics. You're going to have to bring radical thinking to the basics."
innovation Add tag Permalink | Monday, December 02, 2002
CANARIE: Networks For Innovation: A National Strategy For Canada
CANARIE: Networks For Innovation: A National Strategy For CanadaThe Internet's "third wave" involves the development and application of grids, repositories, web services and new approaches to sharing and collaborating. Applications in learning, health, government and business will be central.
Via http://www.downes.ca>Stephen's Web
innovation Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, November 19, 2002
Wired: Encyclopedia of the New Economy
Wired: Encyclopedia of the New EconomyThis has got some of the best descriptions of complex concepts. Here's the description of knowledge management:
Husbandry for ideas. If knowledge is the only real asset, why not manage it like any other? That thought has spawned a mini-industry, from purportedly knowledge-capturing software to corporate "chief knowledge officers" responsible for making their companies smarter. A lot of these efforts are misguided.
The problem is that knowledge isn't like other inventory - it can't just sit in the warehouse until needed, then be dusted off and used. It has to be kept fresh, relevant, and alive. It has to be exercised through continual discussion and revision. And it cannot be managed separately from the people in whose heads it resides. That's the reason companies that successfully manage their knowledge focus on putting people in touch not with vast databases, but with other people...
- New Economy
- Innovation
- Intellectual Capital
- Education
- Just-in-time learning
- Knowledge Worker
innovation Add tag Permalink | Friday, October 04, 2002
Macromedia: eLearning Innovation Awards Program
Macromedia: eLearning Innovation Awards ProgramQ2 2002 winners and honorable mentions.
innovation Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, August 20, 2002
HBS Working Knowledge: Understanding the Process of Innovation
HBS Working Knowledge: Understanding the Process of InnovationWhat kinds of products are best suited for analytical thinking and what kinds are best suited for intuitive thinking?
innovation Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, August 07, 2002
HBS Working Knowledge: Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side
HBS Working Knowledge: Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your SideVery high levels of time pressure should be avoided if you want to foster creativity on a consistent basis. However, if a time crunch is absolutely unavoidable, managers can try to preserve creativity by protecting people from fragmentation of their work and distractions; they should also give people a sense of being "on a mission," doing something difficult but important. I don't think, though, that most people can function effectively in that mode for long periods of time without getting burned out.
At the other end of the spectrum, very low time pressure might lull people into inaction; under those conditions, top-management encouragement to be creative
innovation Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, July 30, 2002
Fast Company: In a Word, Toyota Drives for Innovation
Fast Company: In a Word, Toyota Drives for Innovation''Oobeya'' is Japanese for "big, open office" -- and it's Toyota's system for cutting costs and boosting quality... For Toyota, oobeya means bringing together people from all parts of the company -- whether they're from design, engineering, manufacturing, logistics, or sales -- every month for the two years before a car goes into production... "It's not about tearing down silos in engineering and manufacturing and putting people on special teams. That's the crossfunctional approach. Oobeya is about creating more communication between the people in those divisions so that they can do their jobs better."
innovation Add tag Permalink | Thursday, July 18, 2002