Archive for May, 2007

Tom Cotton - “a deliberate environment of trust”

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Quote:
“… A deliberate environment of trust was created, allowing the team the freedom to conceptualise a response to the loosely defined challenge [... it] really helped our process of innovation.”

The point about process is…

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

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 [...]

Background listening: creativity & innovation, industrialisation & education

Friday, May 11th, 2007

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 [...]

Mayday: we have a draft vision

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

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 - [...]

Process of Innovation