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Julian Keith Loren commented on Design Thinking + Innovation Great presentation! Like your point on Slide 52: "One often over-looked success factor is the even distribution of commitment around innovation among all stakeholders in an organization." Very true! There’s a related and even-more-commonly-over-looked success factor--the even distribution of credit for innovation among all participants in the innovation cycle. If the most visible innovation is technical, then the bulk of the credit tends to go to technologists. If the core idea is a new business model, then the bulk of the credit usually goes to the strategists or analysts who thought it up. Why should the marketing team push the technical innovation if the glory is going to go elsewhere? Why should the technology team put in the extra effort to create the innovative systems that are needed to support the new business model? In all but the most trivially-simple product innovations, what we actually need is a team of mutually-reinforcing ideas that become a cohesive innovation cluster. If we recognize the cluster, then we readily see the many different types of innovation that are integral to it. And if we make a concerted effort to give credit to all of the different groups of contributing innovators, then we are likely to see higher levels of commitment. Trying to force an even level of commitment without first leveling the distribution of credit is like trying to get a hungry baby to stop crying without feeding them. It’s possible, but it sure won’t work for long! 1 month ago
Julian Keith Loren commented on What is Enterprise 2.0? Great slideshow! You show AIIM BPM training on slides 2 and 53, but on slide 23 it looks like "Workflow/BPM" isn’t perceived to fit too well with Enterprise 2.0. Wouldn’t Dynamic BPM be a better fit -- providing Knowledge Workers with the flexibility to redefine processes on the fly? What about a SaaS BPMS with an open Web Service API and pluggable UI architecture facilitating mashups? What else would make a BPMS play better in the Enterprise 2.0 world? 8 months ago
Julian Keith Loren commented on Enterprise 2.0 - Efficient Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange Great presentation! On slide 12 ("Small businesses are natural innovators"), you’re missing a critical point. In small businesses, individuals wear more hats. Multi-disciplinary responsibilities foster multi-disciplinary perspectives and multi-disciplinary collaboration, which all fuels innovation. It is possible to replicate this "small business" work style in large organizations--having employees work across traditional disciplinary or functional boundaries. But first we need to acknowledge how much silo-eroding, multi-disciplinary work patterns contribute to a company’s innovation mojo. 8 months ago
Julian Keith Loren commented on Completing the Innovation Management Puzzle Thank you for the spelling correction! I added some additional category descriptions. Please let me know what you think. 9 months ago
Julian Keith Loren commented on Mission: Innovation Success Workshop The workshop is full already. It’s tremendously gratifying to see so much excitement about the power and value of Full Innovation methodologies! Please join us on March 31st at 6 PM in San Francisco for an evening presentation on Full Innovation. Details and registration: http://fullinnovationahead.eventbrite.com Exclusive event discounts and free offers are available through the Innovation Management Institute groups: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1701727 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=54654966718 10 months ago
Julian Keith Loren commented on 3 Innovation Tales : Tale 1 : Pet Projects Innovators and Innovation Managers, please help us reach 400 responses on this quick 1 question poll: http://polls.linkedin.com/p/21446/nyjmj Thanks for your help! 10 months ago
Julian Keith Loren commented on Top Innovation Priorities Poll 2009 Innovators and Innovation Managers, please help us reach 400 responses on this quick 1 question poll: http://polls.linkedin.com/p/21446/nyjmj Thanks for your help! 10 months ago
Julian Keith Loren commented on Pride Investment Portfolio: An Innovation Management Advanced Topic Innovators and Innovation Managers, please help us reach 400 responses on this quick 1 question poll: http://polls.linkedin.com/p/21446/nyjmj Thanks for your help! 10 months ago
Julian Keith Loren commented on Mission: Innovation Success Workshop Innovators and Innovation Managers, please help us reach 400 responses on this quick 1 question poll: http://polls.linkedin.com/p/21446/nyjmj Thanks for your help! 10 months ago
Julian Keith Loren commented on Completing the Innovation Management Puzzle Innovators and Innovation Managers, please help us reach 400 responses on this quick 1 question poll: http://polls.linkedin.com/p/21446/nyjmj Thanks for your help! 10 months ago
Julian Keith Loren commented on Completing the Innovation Management Puzzle I finally updated the slide show to reflect Patrick Chanezon’s excellent recommendations to change the "Unmanaged Innovation" category to something less misleading. Open Innovation and Pet Projects are often have small amounts of management input--often only at the beginning of the innovation cycle. I changed this category to "Marginally Managed Innovation." Thanks for all of the emails and suggestions! Please join us on LInkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1701727 or Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=54654966718 10 months ago
Julian Keith Loren commented on 3 Innovation Tales : Tale 1 : Pet Projects Bill, Thank you for your comment. You are absolutely right in saying "this is our time." I would insist that this MUST be our time, because there are a lot of serious problems that require a whole new level of innovation and innovation effectiveness. "Analysis, deduction, refinement, and action" It sounds like we’re both in the renegade fringe. Innovators who know that process and rigor can happily coexist with, and actually act to stimulate remarkable innovation. I’m presenting a lot of new models and methods in my book--developed by a number of leading innovation managers and thought leaders, as well as my own from-the-trenches contributions. Let’s definitely talk! All the best, Julian 510.396.0888 11 months ago
Julian Keith Loren commented on 3 Innovation Tales : Tale 1 : Pet Projects Sandra, Thanks for your feedback. You’re absolutely right, figuring out if there is any demand for your innovation is key. Many Pet Project programs actually have a vetting cycle, and require approval before they can be pursued. Unfortunately in a 30 short presentation most nuance tends to be lost (or gets relegated to the comments section). We’re covering determining and driving customer demand in an intensive 1-day workshop in San Francisco on March 3rd. The topics and schedule are outlined in this presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/jkloren/mission-innovation-success-workshop-presentation The 2009 schedule of workshops in all locations is here: http://www.innomgmt.com/imi/events.php All the best, Julian 11 months ago
Julian Keith Loren commented on Pride Investment Portfolio: An Innovation Management Advanced Topic Pacho, Thanks for your feedback! Thank you for the article references as well. I’d read Tim Brown’s article, but the other two were new to me. English versions: R0809N-E (Tim Brown, ’Design Thinking’): http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org/2008/06/design-thinking/ar/1 R0809D-E (Ed Catmull, ’How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity’): http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org/2008/09/how-pixar-fosters-collective-creativity/ar/1 R0809M-E (Thomas D. Nastas, ’Scaling up the Innovation Ecosystem’): http://www.atdforum.org/IMG/pdf_Scaling_Up_Innovation.pdf (Free) I’m not sure about viewing slideshare presentations on an iPhone. I’ll do some research. All the best, Julian 11 months ago
Julian Keith Loren commented on Completing the Innovation Management Puzzle The distinction between "Innovation Then" and "Innovation Now" wasn’t clear enough in the previous version. I hope this version is better in that respect. Thanks for all of the emails, LinkedIn forum comments, and all of the interest! I’ll be posting more slide shows related to specific Innovation Management issues over the next few weeks. Thanks again! 11 months ago
Julian Keith Loren commented on Pride Investment Portfolio: An Innovation Management Advanced Topic Just uploaded a new version with a modified flow. Please let me know what you think. Thanks! 11 months ago

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