Marketing and communications are essential when introducing a disruptive innovation in the marketplace, given the need to explain what the new initiative is all about to key constituencies including clients, analysts and reporters. This process of world-building encourages an encyclopedic impulse in both readers and writers.  MORE >>

While the Square technology is very cool indeed, Davidoff’s key point is the ordinary nature of the innovation in question. The deal not only has the potential to change the way people pay for coffee and everything else, it also shows how small innovation applied to everyday tasks may be the next new thing for venture capital. MORE >>

We don't design the outcome, we design the processes of interaction and monitor for emergence. Merging informal networks post merger or re-organisation. non-narrative technique, s ocial network stimulation creates self-organising merged communities across silos. Birds and flowers (illustrated), host and symbiote and so on. MORE >>

Tweet Innovation. Tim says that innovation is the process of idea management , which makes sense to me. Andrew Hargadon expands on this: In short, innovation is about connecting, not inventing. Innovation is not so much about having ideas as it is about connecting and nurturing ideas. Network Learning. MORE >>

Earlier this year, UC Berkeley professor Henry Chesbrough published a new book, Open Services Innovation: Rethinking Your Business to Grow and Compete in a New Era.  I met him over a decade ago when I first got involved with Linux and open, collaborative innovation.  He is a top expert on the value of open innovation to business. MORE >>