Billed as an “innovation smackdown,” this week’s innochat addressed the thorny topic of who innovates more: big companies or startups? “Most people believe startups have an edge, but large companies have done well too,” said Gwen Ishmael (@Gwen_Ishmael) SVP Insights & Innovation at Decision Analyst Inc. in Texas, and this week’s chat moderator. The framing post [...]
10.4.12 | Innovation, Management, Organisation, Strategy | John P. Muldoon
What role can the Sales organization play in a company? Is its proximity to the customer a benefit? Or do sales incentives stymie a salesman’s motivation to share knowledge? Those were some of the taxing issues tackled at today’s Innochat, a weekly Twitter conversation attended by innovation experts, practitioners and assorted hangers on from around [...]
08.16.12 | Innovation, Management, Organisation | John P. Muldoon
This is Part II of the report on Thursday’s innochat where a group of innovation experts and practitioners tackle some of the innovation challenges facing organizations. Part I is here. Turning to her third question, moderator Gwen Ishmael (@Gwen_Ishmael) asked how the different types of innovation being discussed — incremental, breakthrough and transformational — impact [...]
04.26.12 | Innovation, Management, Strategy | John P. Muldoon
Companies can face different challenges in their markets and with their customers depending on how they position themselves strategically on the innovation spectrum.
04.26.12 | Innovation, Organisation, Strategy | John P. Muldoon
This is the first of a two-part post. Part II is here. Ever walked in to a store to buy something only to become overwhelmed or annoyed when a simple errand turns in to a headache of decision making? Have modern product ranges become so vast that the manufacturers have over-innovated? That was the prime [...]
03.8.12 | Fun stuff, Innovation | John P. Muldoon
It is a huge area, but education needs to be fixed in many areas. This weeks Innochat looks at how innovation can be brought in to the educational system.
03.1.12 | Education, Innovation | John P. Muldoon
An “alarming trend” sees stodgy academics, turgid papers in hand, descending slothlike on the fast-paced but unsuspecting innovation domain. Writing in Bloomberg Businessweek, G. Michael Maddock and Raphael Louis Vitón claim major corporations are turning to academics to institute innovation programs, but should be looking elsewhere for advice. According to the authors, “No one [...]
04.19.11 | Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Management, Organisation | John P. Muldoon
While the home of most corporate parents (America) worries that IT may not be helping the business enough, the home of many subsidiaries (Ireland) worries that IT is a tool that will force the closure of corporate outposts. Writing in the Harvard Business Review (HBR) blog, R. “Ray” Wang says four personas of the next-generation [...]
03.7.11 | Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Management, Organisation, Technology | John P. Muldoon
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Online publishers are still grappling with ways to make online content pay. News Corp moved the London Times behind a paywall and watched readership drop off a cliff. Apple proposes to charge publishers for access to the iPad, but on terms that are unlikely to please content providers. Now Dutch company, Cleeng, (they seem to [...]
12.8.10 | Innovation, Technology | John P. Muldoon
