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Clips on slime: applying measuring clips to lovely green slime and looking for a healthy voltage across the whole organism.
A while back I read an article by Skinner & Spira (see below) which talks about a continuous line between two extreme management positions – of trust at one end, and control at the other. When [...]

Mike and I were talking recently about the impetus behind innovation. What exactly lies behind a team’s will to create something new, to do things diffferently?
We often produce business-like phrases about ‘value’, written into carefully crafted vision statements. These are important, but we suspect the real spark for innovation is more basic and more human. [...]

Surely, the point about process is that it should free human beings from work of low added value to allow them to do the high value stuff which machines cannot do? If we are able to structure activities to become almost mechanical and mostly invariant, why would we bind people in teams to be governed [...]

As we think about the vision for this Process of Innovation blog, I want to point back to some of the root cause issues that underpin the need for a focus on innovation.
Lets start by listening to THIS PODCAST of Sir Ken Robinson via TED talks. As we listen, think of these and other [...]

Today we had the pleasure of being hosted by Dave Wallace (of LifeKludger fame) on his Extraordinary Everyday Lives show.
Dave was kind enough to allow us to chat about our vision for the Process Of Innovation.
Various themes emerged, including:

‘Process’ being seen as a negative term
Thinking about what part of the lifecycle you are in - [...]

Welcome to the process of innovation! We assert that innovation comes naturally to groups of people when the barriers of controlling process have been removed to allow ideas to be explored and developed without prejudice. We also maintain that being innovative is a skill which can be learned among teams of people. In this blog [...]