How Lego Became The Apple Of Toys
Editor’s note: This is a great story of the ups and downs of Lego, of change, innovation and creativity.
Browsing: innovation
The path to successful digital transformation starts with pockets of innovation
Editor’s note: Some good examples here of how companies are trying to transform themselves for the digital world.
Purpose drives innovation, says former Unilever HR chief
The concept of purpose has driven an #innovation culture at #unilever, according to Geoff McDonald,…
The 7 key principles for an innovation mindset
Curated from blogs.brad.ac.uk ##innovation can start with small steps and these small steps will enable…
Christensen’s disruptive innovation after the Lepore critique
Editor’s note: Great analysis of the theory of disruptive innovation following its recent high profile critique by Jill Lepore.
NYT innovation report 2014
Editor’s note: The internal report from The New York Times’s new ideas task force on how the paper could/should innovate in the digital era.
Rich incentives for innovation yield a flood of mediocre ideas
Editor’s note: This HBR factoid points to research that shows big incentives yield many mediocre ideas. Best stick with more modest incentives.
A platform-thinking approach to innovation
Editor’s note: A look at how technology – through platforms – is adding a genuinely new approach to innovation.
How innovation nearly killed LEGO
Editor’s note: Interesting to see how Lego has failed in its varies attempts to innovate.
Google reveals its 9 principles of innovation
Editor’s note: I think it fair to say that Google is pretty good at innovation. Here’s its approach to making it happen.
New and improved
Editor’s note: Andrew Jacobs reflects on Disrupting Class by Clayton Christensen and the barriers to innovation.
Is your CEO serious about innovation? 10 questions to ask
Editor’s note: A good list of questions to ask the business – and to see how serious the business is about innovation.
SomeOne/Else develops ‘internet for people without internet’
Editor’s note: Look to the developing world for mobile innovation. Here is a great example of a forthcoming knowledge sharing service for farmers.
Mass flourishing: how it was won, then largely lost
Editor’s note: Edmund Phelps, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Director of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University, and Dean of the New Huadu Business School at Minjiang University on what stops innovation.
Can innovation actually be measured?
Editor’s note: Research-driven insights into innovation and how organisations can measure the impact of innovation.