http://processofinnovation.com/wordpress Process of Innovation Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:58:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just noticed and interesting op-ed piece in the NyTimes by an ex-MSFTee entitled "Microsoft's Creative Destruction". A good read which points out how hard it was to compete against the cash cows of Office and Windows within Microsoft. And yet it is failing, even as it reports record earnings. As the ... http://processofinnovation.com/wordpress/?p=46 Learnings document Outline-Proof of concept Document Sign Off Table of Contents Introduction What Went Well What did we struggle with? Architecture Technology Issues Business/People Issues What could we do better? Next steps Deployment considerations Cost Estimates Conclusion Appendix http://processofinnovation.com/wordpress/?p=44 Hey folks, Mike here after a long pause in which both Andy and I have settled into new jobs.The great news is that I should be in a position to run a Proof of Concept project early in the new year. With a spot of luck it may involve some ... http://processofinnovation.com/wordpress/?p=39 I recently tripped over the phrase 'motor of innovation' while reading up on a rather quirky research papers. It got me thinking about how we could describe the motor of innovation in a broader sense.Qualitative stigmergy, which is the true motor of innovation, can be seen as the basis of ... http://processofinnovation.com/wordpress/?p=38 Diagram done, post coming soon:About a year ago, Andy used a whiteboard diagram and the phrase 'decorate the sliders with various settings' to bring a measure of balance to a rather tense and divided group of people.  The notion of using a visualisation of sliders (think of volume sliders you ... http://processofinnovation.com/wordpress/?p=37 Mike and I have been discussing how strange it is that we don't value the contribution of imagination as the pilot of new knowledge creation in an organisation.UPDATE: I see that the Ted conference held in Feb 2008 thought Johnny Lee is pretty cool.What if we dared to imagine - ... http://processofinnovation.com/wordpress/?p=36 When Andy and I were bouncing ideas for this blog around, there was a strong sense of wanting to kindle flames of creativity. The backdrop to our thinking is discussed in THIS earlier post - against a tone of dissatisfaction against the industrialisation of everything. While digging around our 'draft ... http://processofinnovation.com/wordpress/?p=17 We were reflecting about one of our earlier innovation projects with a client, from some years ago. At that time we were working to establish an innovation incubator and we found a conflict of positions with the client - we were clearly coming from different ends of the spectrum and ... http://processofinnovation.com/wordpress/?p=15 A few more thoughts following on from Clips on Slime which was well received. When Mike and I are asking questions about a firm, we try to establish what kind of organism they are looking to build. Many firms are pulled in two directions: on the one hand, there is recognition ... http://processofinnovation.com/wordpress/?p=35 Idea for future post: learning to fail well.Inspiration:Mike was having a chat with a customer with 2xProof ofConcepts done and zero failures.Making me nervous - think we need to learn to fail well.Reminded of IC vision sessions - 'expect 7/10 projects to fail, one of the other three might be ... http://processofinnovation.com/wordpress/?p=34