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1. Angela on New white paper: 'What Drives Innovation? A Heuristic Framework for Corporate Innovation'
Hi Renee: I am currently working on a project regarding innovation for the completion of my bachelor's degree. You article was just the source I was looking for! Thank you! ›››
October 22, 2007 3:02 PM

2. Louis Savinetti on Farewell from Renee -- but check out the new IdeaFlow blogroll!
I thought some of these ideas might interest you and your colleagues. http://longislandideafactory.blogspot.com/ Thanks. ›››
September 26, 2007 11:16 AM

3. Annie on 'Why Innovation?' presentation available
How can one get a copy of the presentation you refer to? ›››
September 12, 2007 9:16 AM

4. EMARFMYMN on Creative people have more sex
Toronto, Canada's quirky popsters Barenaked Ladies were never ones to follow a trend. They were more interested in making someone laugh than being astute and serious.barenaked lady ticketMost of all, a friendship consumed this band and that bond cemented their place in alternative rock. Teenage friends Ed Robertson and Steven Page found themselves laughing at the innocent and child-like term "barenaked lady" while attending a Bob Dylan concert in 1988. ›››
September 3, 2007 2:52 AM

5. scarm on Bipolar children more creative than other kids
Bipolars are really creative but they have many weaknesses also ›››
August 11, 2007 10:12 AM

6. oddpodz on Jack’s Notebook: A Business Novel of ‘Deliberate Creativity’
Thank you for this book review. It sounds quite interesting, and we're always looking for more ways to solve problems creatively. We'll add it to our summer reading list! ›››
July 24, 2007 2:19 PM

7. Marian on Bipolar children more creative than other kids
I thought the remarks made by one Heather Rainwater were strangely cold and disturbing. I'm not going to get into the validity or non validity of what she said, but how she said it was revealing. ›››
July 12, 2007 8:47 AM

8. Luke Shetler on Bipolar children more creative than other kids
"Unfortunately, the previous poster, Melissa Frost, has demonstrated this very clearly in her entirely unclear post. If she were a non-native English-speaker, or 9 years old, the difficulty of reading her paragraph would be acceptable. However, she makes claims she cannot possibly back up, such as the idea that the mentally ill use more of their brain than the mentally sane. Additionally, at near-adulthood, she writes with all the linguistic acuity of a child. Perhaps if she had not had to suffe ›››
June 19, 2007 5:48 PM

9. Alexandra K. on Supernova 2007 blog conversation: It's all about innovation and value
Broadcast, Watch and participate in Supernova 2007 using http://www.blogTV.com/supernova/ ›››
June 17, 2007 8:02 AM

10. anon on Bipolar children more creative than other kids
"I also wonder if specific training in creativity skills might help bipolar people whose symptoms don't currently manifest themselves as the more positive creative traits. Perhaps if they knew what to do with their innate creativity, these folks would be able to live more on the positive than the negative side of creativity." De-mystifying the creative process, removing the fear that the ability to be creative might disappear when stable, broadening ones knowledge - and anchoring it in solid ac ›››
June 11, 2007 8:29 AM

11. Tudor on Bipolar children more creative than other kids
Thanks Rene. If you judge a post by the quality of its comments, you are up there with the greats. I've missed your earlier posts by will be taking a further look at them. There's been a shift from the old 'creativity and madness close allied' view over the last decade or so. Eysenck among others have researched and written on the subject. There is still a lot to be done, with advocates of 'positive thinking' for enhancing creativity, and critics still doing battle. There is another conn ›››
June 10, 2007 5:35 AM

12. Keith Sawyer on Supernova 2007 blog conversation: It's all about innovation and value
I am a creativity researcher and the author, most recently, of GROUP GENIUS (Basic Books, June 2007). I have recently added your a link to your blog on my blog page, and would be honored if you would link to mine: http://keithsawyer.wordpress.com Also you might enjoy the book's web site: http://www.groupgenius.net ›››
May 30, 2007 11:27 AM

13. Ralf on Cultural influences on the acceptance of product innovation
I agree with your statement that the article uses the words interchangeably and other articles do the same. There is not a clear model for the acceptance of products in an international environment. Acceptance and Diffusion are two separate processes that are influenced by culture. A product that is not accepted will not experience diffusion. The acceptance can be influence at different levels and presents the basis for a diffusion process. ›››
May 14, 2007 12:38 PM

14. boyd martin on Creative people have more sex
Bipolar people are known to be hypersexual as well as creative. Sex is used as a self-medication for high energy we feel ›››
May 7, 2007 6:15 PM

15. boyd martin on Bipolar children more creative than other kids
Bipolars are extremely creative. It´s ashame in our closed-minded society this creativity is not tapped. avidsaver.com/tqt ›››
May 7, 2007 6:09 PM

16. Wyszukiwanie on Creating a culture of business experimentation
I Think in bussines culture is a problem to do money :P ›››
April 27, 2007 3:42 AM

17. rachid on How to create a more innovative business environment
I think to creat swat teams or support varied innovation will not resolve any problem ; while the big country don t stop there co2 . i will study an environnment engenering . so i will be very happy to put me on all news thanks ›››
April 7, 2007 4:18 AM

18. DAVIDE SCIALPI on Blue-ocean strategy on the college football field
I believe that the word "blue ocean strategy" is used to say everything...it's a way of saying to show out culture in to define something to which nobody has been thinked until at that moment...I believe that kim E MAUOBORGNE will not be happy!! ›››
April 5, 2007 4:03 AM

19. Jerry Tiplinger on Jack’s Notebook: A Business Novel of ‘Deliberate Creativity’
Jack's Notebook; seems a note worthy read for any business savvy individual. While reading your post I couldn't help but have another well thought out business book come to mind. I was fortunate enough to come across a copy of a new book- The Enlightened CEO: How to Succeed at the Toughest Job in Business. This book is genius for people who are CEO's or plan on making it that far in their career. The authors really focus on how to approach being a CEO and making decisions in all aspects of yo ›››
April 4, 2007 10:03 AM

20. pyro on Bipolar children more creative than other kids
I think a dangerous classification of bipolar people away from normal people has occurred. A so called normal person does not have the right to analyze a bipolar person because there are much more pushing matters with people that cause harm considered as normal that have not yet been classified as having a disorder due to the lack of scientific advances. I envy people who don't rationalize anything they do because it would be a simpler world if I could do that and a few others could as well, tho ›››
April 4, 2007 5:06 AM

21. pyro on Bipolar children more creative than other kids
does bipolar disorder account for my lack of revision for about a week now when I really want to succeed evident by how much revision i did prior? it just seems so difficult to do the normal things in life. even now i question whether i am bipolar because people say it is linked with intelligence, but though i am creative sporadically i never feel intelligent. I mean it evens itself out. One day I feel intelligent and the next i feel like everything i hoped for has evaporated either because i do ›››
April 4, 2007 4:33 AM

22. TerryG on Bipolar children more creative than other kids
I agree with you and your views. I work very closely with bi-polar challenged persons and I have found they are remarkable in the way they deal with life and their outlook on life. I am a big believer in persons developing skills towards life and this article just confirms my beliefs. Thank you TerryG http://www.psychic-aus.com ›››
March 27, 2007 6:22 AM

23. Mary on Chuck Frey's new mindmapping software book
good article...visualization software often times requires too much effort to get going...this was very helpful ›››
March 25, 2007 4:07 PM

24. Chris on Bipolar children more creative than other kids
Renee, what this article fails to mention is that there are different levels of bipolar disorder, and rapid cycling bipolar is more debilitating. The mood swings for rapid cycling bipolar are violent, from extreme highs to extreme lows. In some cases the extreme highs cause, but are not limited to auditory hallucinations, and delusions of grandeur. Then you have literally the polar opposite, where the person rarely reaches a manic episode, but rather is more often in the depressive and hypomania ›››
March 24, 2007 9:18 AM

25. April on Bipolar children more creative than other kids
Thank you for your artical; I found it very interesting. I have suffered from depression and mania since I was 10--I'm now 36. I was offically diagnosed less than a year ago. I have always been creative and have always thought that I was more creative than most people. I have an ability to think outside the box and sometimes see what becomes obvious but cannot be seen by most because it is too simple. I am a creative business owner and an Interior Designer. I am able to see things in a s ›››
March 7, 2007 6:43 PM

26. Sami Viitamäki on Guidelines for successful crowdsourcing
Hi and thanks for the post! I've been researching crowdsourcing and what makes user communities work for some time now. If you wanna check out and comment on my findings, you can find it here: http://www.samiviitamaki.com/2007/02/16/the-flirt-model-of-crowdsourcing-collective-customer-collaboration/ ›››
February 27, 2007 8:22 PM

27. Lisa on Bipolar children more creative than other kids
This is to Melissa Frost's comment on January 16, 2006 12:43 PM Your grammar is great for a 17 year-old-girl and you have made some pretty bold and agreeable statements. I have always been in the top of my class and people have considered me as a complex thinker with excessive compassion; so much in fact, I have been a vegetarian all my life, due to moral and ethical issues. I don't think this is an "illness" like schizophrenia in which the defective gene identified is the glutamate receptor ›››
February 26, 2007 9:49 AM

28. marianne mcdougall on Creative people have more sex
Simply not true. ›››
February 21, 2007 9:25 AM

29. ARLAN DEAN on Chuck Frey's new mindmapping software book
About time there was a good survey of visual productivity tools. Bottom line, effective visualization software should be practically transparent (intuitive, to quote another comment)--as effortless to learn and use as visual thinking itself. Any mind-mapping application that requires constant checking of the user manual or mountaineer gear to climb a steep learning curve is more a hindrance than a help. ...that's the way I "see" it, in any case ›››
February 17, 2007 4:27 PM

30. adam on BIF-2 wrap-up: Where do ideas come from? And what's an idea, anyway?
I was surfing the net on the subject of where idweas come from when I came across this posting. Like other discussions of 'where ideas come from' I am disturbed to see that the key point is being missed. I do mean to criticize but rather re-direct the focus toi the most important issue at hand. Often when we rfer to ideas it is to ideas which make an appearance in business, and of course which work. In the course of my own work I find I am blown away by big businesses complete lack of knowledge ›››
February 10, 2007 12:57 AM

31. Colin Brayton on Chuck Frey's new mindmapping software book
I personally rely more on reviews by independent users who have not spent 20 years marketing the kinds of products they review. I suppose a marketer might be good at reviewing these tools from the point of view of what marketers want to use them for. But I am not a marketer. I am one of those pathetic people who still do Journalism 1.0 because we "don't get the Internet." For my money -- I have none -- the free Cmap mind-mapping tool does the trick nicely, and I am also following the progress ›››
February 3, 2007 8:38 AM

32. Phil on Chuck Frey's new mindmapping software book
I think a guide to choosing mind mapping software is a great idea - the market seems to be flooding with new software packages. I personally use Spark-Space, which I have found very intuitive to use and seems to be the only one where it is simple to produce documents directly in the the software. Check it out at www.spark-space.com ›››
January 6, 2007 3:10 PM

33. Ron Shevlin on It's up to CMOs to drive customer co-creation (updated with link)
Thanks for the pointer to the Forrester report (side comment: As a regular Forrester client, I wish this stuff was available to the rest of us). As to marketing's role in co-creation...I think the answer is a definitive "it depends". Specifically, it depends on the role marketing plays today in the organization. For less "strategic" marketing departments (i.e., those either more focused on -- or viewed as focusing on -- areas of marketing like advertising and marcom, then stepping up to the co- ›››
December 28, 2006 8:11 AM

34. Ron Shevlin on It's up to CMOs to drive customer co-creation (updated with link)
Thanks for the pointer to the Forrester report (side comment: As a regular Forrester client, I wish this stuff was available to the rest of us). As to marketing's role in co-creation...I think the answer is a definitive "it depends". Specifically, it depends on the role marketing plays today in the organization. For less "strategic" marketing departments (i.e., those either more focused on -- or viewed as focusing on -- areas of marketing like advertising and marcom, then stepping up to the co- ›››
December 28, 2006 8:09 AM

35. Renee on It's up to CMOs to drive customer co-creation (updated with link)
Thanks, Ryan...that's an interesting perspective. You say, "The Marketing Department's role and goal should be shifted from trying to get customers involved to instead come from a point of leadership." -- the point of having the Marketing Department involved in customer co-creation is that the marketing department is the touchpoint for customer involvement of all kinds within the business. You say "The marketing department's role should be to cultivate it, grow it, provide the environment for it ›››
December 11, 2006 11:21 AM

36. Ryan Marle on It's up to CMOs to drive customer co-creation (updated with link)
One of the things that doesn't get factored in nearly as much as it should is other departments and employees in marketing and innovation. The idea oft customer generated innovation assumes that there are creative customers that are able to provide content or innovation and co-create with the company itself. But the best place to start is within the company with it's employees and other departments. The Marketing Department's role and goal should be shifted from trying to get customers involve ›››
December 10, 2006 12:47 PM

37. Jim Ferry on Processes, connections, polarities: Report from Innovation Convergence
I like this polarity management idea. Wish I'd heard it earlier- would have saved a lot of time discussing and debating issues like process vs. content, disruptive vs. incremental, etc. ›››
October 27, 2006 2:56 PM

38. Renee on BIF-2 wrap-up: Innovation by the community, for the community
Sanjay, I am a big fan of customer co-creation. I actually work in that area myself. And I have written about it a number of times (some of it here: http://ideaflow.corante.com/archives/crowdsourcing/). People keep coming up with terms for it -- crowdsourcing and customer co-creation being two of the most common these days. However, I'm a little underwhelmed by what I have seen from Leadbetter...the collaboratives, as he calls them, aren't changing the *ways* people come up with ideas. What's ch ›››
October 18, 2006 10:30 PM

39. Sanjay Dalal on BIF-2 wrap-up: Passion and intent are essential ingredients for innovation
Renee: Thank you for sharing with us these summaries from the BIF-2 conference. They reinforce the value of Innovation in Business. Are you all planning to host something similar on the West Coast? I also read about Passion in a story on "Connecting the Dots between Innovation and Leadership" published by Knowledge@Wharton - you can browse to: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1569 Patricia Danzon, Wharton professor of health care systems and a consummate researcher o ›››
October 18, 2006 1:35 PM

40. Sanjay Dalal on BIF-2 wrap-up: Innovation by the community, for the community
Hi Renee: You have a point that it could be a simple yes/no answer. But, what if you are indeed thinking what I am thinking, and this can create some type of a group thought whose value is intrinsic. The author claims: "We are developing new ways to innovate and be creative en masse. We can be organised without an organisation. People can combine ideas and skills without a hierarchy." And he draws upon many examples from Google, to YouTube, Wikipedia to Linux, the MP3 Generation, and more. ›››
October 18, 2006 9:05 AM

41. Renee on BIF-2 wrap-up: Innovation by the community, for the community
Sanjay, thanks for the link. I'll go take a look. But I'm a little stumped as to how people asking each other "Are you thinking of what I'm thinking?" can be the beginning of anything. It's a yes-no question! To start a conversation, or to continue one, you'd need a question that invites people to share their thoughts. thanks! :) renee ›››
October 18, 2006 8:25 AM

42. Renee on BIF-2 wrap-up: Where do ideas come from? And what's an idea, anyway?
Martin, I totally agree with you about context. The other issue -- the framework for recording and structuring -- is definitely a challenge. I am currently using software called "Incubator" from OVO (www.ovoinnovation.com) in order to do this. It works very well for me. But I'd love to hear any ideas you have about an XML-bsed solution. thanks! :) renee ›››
October 18, 2006 8:22 AM

43. Martin Silcock on BIF-2 wrap-up: Where do ideas come from? And what's an idea, anyway?
I think another key factor in identifying what an idea is, is "context." The meaning of information and ideas requres a context The experience of looking at the same data and A seeing different things is to do with the context in which you are observing it. More contexts, more ideas. The other aspect is having a framework for recording and structuring an idea so it can be handled and related to others. A kind of "standard" way of describing and idea. What would be the best representation s ›››
October 18, 2006 2:14 AM

44. Sanjay Dalal on BIF-2 wrap-up: Where do ideas come from? And what's an idea, anyway?
According to Matthew E. May, a senior University of Toyota advisor, and the author of “The Elegant Solution: Toyota's Formula for Mastering Innovation”, Toyota implements One Million new ideas each year (not a typo), or over 2,500 new ideas daily. Three guiding principles drive new ideas: 1. The Art of Ingenuity - ask the question "Is there a better way?" and be both an artist and scientist at the same time to design elegant solutions. 2. The Pursuit of Perfection - rigorously search for ›››
October 17, 2006 6:30 PM

45. Sanjay Dalal on BIF-2 wrap-up: Innovation by the community, for the community
There was a great article on Time Online on this particular topic. According to Charles Leadbetter, author of the soon to be released book "We-Think", we are witnessing the new age of creativity and innovation that begins with people asking a simple question: "Are you thinking of what I'm thinking?" A new wave of companies are cropping up wherein people are creating and conducting business together, determining the rules of the business, and their "collective creativity and collaboration are ›››
October 17, 2006 6:18 PM

46. Lionel DAVID on Three areas of value that result from customer co-creation
Hello, as founder of a new crowdsourcing project, I'd like to introduce our project which aims to design and sale consumer electronic products. Launch of our official website by the mid of october but you can have the last news on our website for the moment : http://cecrowdsourcing.blogspot.com/ ›››
October 2, 2006 10:41 AM

47. Regina Green on Cultural influences on the acceptance of product innovation
could you please give me a short definition of what cultural innovation and cultural diffusion is. I do not really understand ›››
October 1, 2006 8:43 PM

48. Renee on Renee's back, and so is IdeaFlow!
Thanks for your comment! No, I don't have a venue for introducing new products, and unfortunately, nor do I have a yard -- I live in an apartment community where the landscaping is topnotch and all I have to do is enjoy it! ›››
September 21, 2006 9:12 AM

49. tricklering on Renee's back, and so is IdeaFlow!
Hello, Renee- I just ran across your site and have not had a chance to delve into it yet, but it looks very interesting! Do you have a venue for intoducing new products? I designed a water conserving drip irrigation ring and sell them through my website, www.tricklering.com. I have shipped a few to Austin and remember a few evenings in some Generic Blues bar there... would you like a free sample to try out on your trees and shrubs? John ›››
September 20, 2006 7:42 PM

50. Renee on Renee's back, and so is IdeaFlow!
Thanks! Yes, I'll spread out my own blogging on the BIF-2 conference between the Innovation Hub and IdeaFlow. ›››
September 15, 2006 2:17 PM