What I can draw from this video is that what charaterize really innovatve companies is that they can find their way between assumptions that seem contradictory. They think in terms of “AND” instead of “OR”.
One may answer that always looking for compromises leads to solution that bring nothing, that choices have to be made and [...]
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Tags: contradiction·culture·Innovation·management
I’coming back on an article titled “Teaming Up to Crack Innovation Enterprise Integration” and issued in the Harvard Business Review in last november. It has many interests : it’s about the vital problematic of innovation, it shows this so-called innovation can only be distributed and rely on sharing, it shows how such principles can be [...]
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Tags: distributed innovation·enterprise 2.0·Innovation·integration·IT·nokia·organization·procter and gamble·royal dutch shell·Social Networking·systemic·systems·web-2.0
The Alumni Network of the famous french “Ecole Polytechnique” issued a report on “how to manage in a downturn’. Here are a few excerpts :
• Urgency does not mean lack of vigilance : state of urgency makes people focus on short term which bad effects are know…on long term. Moreover, enterprise compartmentalization and a hard [...]
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Tags: Communication·cooperation·ecole polytechnique·Innovation·intagible asses·transformation
Today, many opinions converge to admit two things :
• companies need to be more and and more reactive in order to run their traditionnal activities in a more and more complexe context, where foreseeability is very uncertain and where sharp competences and complex competences assembling are needed in a short range of time. Something like [...]
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Tags: enterprise 2.0·immaterial assets·information·intangible assets·intellectual capital·knowledge·knowledge-economy·knowledge-management·strategy maps·value·value creation·web-2.0
You must have felt this agitation that went through the blogosphere these last day, but that was also relayed by traditional medias. Web 2.0 is dead. The rumor didn’t start from this note from Michael Arrington but since he’s got a bigger loudhailer than most of the population his voice carried farer. Then hundreds if [...]
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Tags: business model·Communities·crisis·enterprise 2.0·Innovation·insourcing·involvement·social networks·web-2.0
A few months ago I wrote about my meeting with Rex Lee, a nice conversation during which we talked about what he implemented at Bell Canada, he showed me a few projects and, above all, he explained me the vision that was behind all that. Among those tools and projects was ID-ah ! , [...]
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Tags: bell·collaboration·collaborative innovation·culture·ID-ah!·Innovation·problem solving
In a previous post I was saying that, one day, enterprise’s main role will be to organize a value chain and coordinate expertises, some of them being internal and some others internal. Economy’s “knowledgization” where assets resides more in individual knowledge, transaction costs near to zero which may cause a reversed application of Coase’s law, [...]
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Tags: C&D·coase·competitiveness·connect and develop·india·Innovation·intellectual partnership·intellectual profil·intellectual property·IP·knowledge-economy·KPO·networks·outsourcing·R&D
A little time ago I wrote about Cisco’s Human Network. One of the point I raised was to know is Cisco was about to only play a facilitator’s game or try to exploit its network’s fruits when relevant. The answer was obvious, but now it gets materialized and is called I-Prize.
It’s nothing less that a [...]
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Tags: cisco·collaborative innovation·crowdsourcing·distributed innovation·employers-brand·i-prize·Innovation·participative innovation
This is the third (and last) post of the series about enterprise 2.0 and intangible assets. Why do “organization capital” ? It’s the ability to mobilize and support the change process that is needed to support strategy.
It’s made of four elements :
- culture : appropriation of the vision and key values needed to support strategy
- [...]
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Tags: assessment·balanced scorecard·bsc·collaboration·culture·enterprise 2.0·intangible assets·leadership·organization·organization capital·strategy·strategy maps
Distributed innovation, collaboration with clients and partners are becoming central in companies’ strategic reflexion.
To learn more about this subject I often discuss here, it’s at McKinsey’s.
Tags: distributed innovation , Innovation , mckinsey , open innovation , partnership , strategy
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