I've been participating in Joyce Wycoff's Global Innovation Study Team project, which has its own fascinating blog.

You can still participate -- one way is to take the online survey on innovation that is currently available. Here's the invitation from Joyce:

Greetings! We'd like to pick your brain about innovation in order to help an international project team that is writing a report on the Fundamentals of Innovation.

This is a brief, simple survey, but will be very helpful to the process of identifying the bedrock of innovation. If you are part of an organization that is larger than 10 employees, please respond at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=48203548538

We'd also appreciate your help in sending this survey to other innovation folks in other organizations. We've already had more than 250 participants, and would love to have more. Plus, when you take the survey, you will find out how you can receive a copy of the report once it is finished in mid-October.

One other question that we'd love to hear your thoughts on (regardless of the size of your organization) is:

What are the absolute *fundamentals* of innovation -- those things that if we didn't do them or if they aren't in place, organizational innovation has little possibility of succeeding? You can respond to this question at mailto:question@thinksmart.com.

Thank you so much for your help! If you would like to be part of this project, send an email to mailto:innovation2004@thinksmart.com.