Guy Currier, Executive Director of Research at Ziff Davis Enterprise, recently conducted a survey of innovation, knowledge sharing technologies and collaboration. The survey featured responses from 342 individuals from qualifying firms, including Mark Tellegen from Kindling client LeapFrog: LeapFrog, an educational toy company based in Emeryville, Calif., has used Arc90’s Kindling idea management tool since [...]
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Welcome Back!
After a year-long hiatus from this Blog, I’m happy to announce that we’re back and better than ever. Why the hiatus, and more importantly, why the return? Well it’s been said so many times at this point that assigning authorship to this idea would be nearly impossible, but I’ll credit Seth Godin when he said [...]
Organizational Bottlenecks
Great blog post by Scott Berkun pointing out a common flaw in how organizations approach idea management – by focusing too much on idea cultivation and not on the idea selection process. Scott says: The reason there is little change is that idea inputs were never the problem. The bottleneck was further upstream. Crowdsourcing, brainstorming, [...]
Iconic Collaboration
Human history is full of moments of individual inspiration – think Einstein’s Relativity – but what about examples of successful group collaboration around an idea? A few hundred years ago, a particular group of backwoods provincials gave birth to perhaps the best idea of all – a limited republican government designed to protect against tyranny. [...]
Want to Keep Innovating? Start From The Beginning…Again
Bill Buxton, Principal Scientist at Microsoft Research and pioneer in the human–computer interaction field, wrote this about innovation in one of his BusinessWeek columns: We live at a time where we hear repeated calls for the need for creativity and innovation. What better way to cultivate the full potential of our creativity than by sustaining the [...]