I'm very pleased to have been asked by Joyce Wycoff to co-sponsor Innovation 2004, a new blog-based collaborative innovation project also sponsored by Joyce's Innovation Network. Joyce started her blogging life here on IdeaFlow and the blog for Innovation 2004 is the 10th blog she's launched since the start of 2004!! I feel like a proud blog mama!!

Here's some info about the new project, whose blog home is at http://thinksmart.typepad.com/innovation_2004:

Do you know the “fundamentals” of innovation -- those systems, culture traits and activities that are essential to the success of any innovation initiative?

The past two years have seen an explosion of information about innovation -- new models, new software systems, new terminology. We're in some jeopardy of being sunk by all this, sometimes seemingly contradictory, information before we can actually put it into practice.

Innovation2004 -- a new, collaborative learning process initiated by the InnovationNetwork and co-sponsored by other organizations in the field of innovation, has taken on the challenge of articulating the critical fundamentals of innovation. This multidisciplinary and international study will focus on defining terms, determining “fundamental practices”, identifying leading success indicators, and outlining the critical process phases of innovation and innovation projects.

If you would like to participate in this learning project, send an email to mailto:innovation2004@thinksmart.com.

Innovation 2004: http://thinksmart.typepad.com/innovation_2004
Innovation Network: http://thinksmart.com