Archive for September, 2007

What Howard said about Openness and Innovation

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

While finishing my previous post ‘thinking about openness and innovation’, I found an interesting and informative article in my local newspaper. It is a small piece by Samela Harris talking about Howard Rheingold’s upcoming visit to Australia. The title is ‘Teachers should learn from cyber generation’ and it contains some biting insights from [...]

Thinking about Openness and Innovation

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

While Andy is off swanning about London, I have decided to write this little narrative post in which I hope to sketch out some of the ancient and more recent background to this blog. In recent weeks I have very much enjoyed following the progress of a proof of concept project that I helped [...]

Scratch that itch!

Monday, September 10th, 2007

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. [...]

Process of Innovation