Editor’s Note: This post is a featured guest post by one of our IAI University Partners, Ellen Domb from the PQR Group, and originally co-written by Ellen Domb with Katie Barry, editor of RealInnovation.com, and Michael S. Slocum, Ph.D., principal of The Inventioneering Company.
What Is TRIZ?
Projects of all kinds frequently reach a point where all [...]
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On July 28th, 2010, Adobe announced it’s intention to acquire Switzerland-based Day Software for approximately $240 Million USD. (see press release from Adobe)
The Past, Present and Future of Adobe
With the acquisition of Day Software (highly scalable, standards and open source-oriented [not as deployment/sales model, but as underpinnings]), along with the [...]
Welcome to IAM Talking, a periodic podcast interview series, with your host, Dan Keldsen, Co-founder and Principal Consultant at Information Architected, Inc. (IAI).
Today, the topic is Taking Open Innovation to a Global Organization.
In this episode, I am interviewing Jon Bidwell, the Chief Innovation Officer for Chubb & Son.
Mr. Bidwell is currently responsible for the development [...]
Welcome to IAM Talking, a periodic podcast interview series, with your host, Dan Keldsen, Co-founder and Principal at Information Architected.
Today, the topic is Business Model Innovation – White Space and You.
In this episode, I am interviewing Mark Johnson, the author of a new book, Seizing the White Space: Business Model Innovation for Growth and Renewal.
Mark [...]
Look around – is there waste in your organization? Is it time, paper, bits of plastic, scraps of wood, nuclear active material …? Of course there is waste , and often projects are focused on eliminating or minimizing waste – of all kinds. What do you do with it? Carefully dispose of it? Recycle? How [...]
Have you ever watched the TV show, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? Adults subject themselves to humiliation – demonstrating how their intelligence – measured by their ability to answer questions on a variety of topics, does not match that of a group of 5th graders. Well, last Saturday I witnessed something even far [...]
Recently both BusinessWeek and Fast Company published their respective 50 most innovative companies list. I have “mashedup” both lists in the chart below and edited the lists a bit. (Where there is overlap I indicate the difference in ranking order between lists.) There was much to garner from these lists, beyond the corporate rankings individually.
What [...]
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Invention Machine (headquartered in Boston) announced yesterday the availability of Invention Machine Goldfire 6.0 with integrated collaboration and expert identification technologies to further accelerate product innovation. (see press release from Invention Machine)
Beyond Individual Innovators
Historically, Invention Machine’s Goldfire has been oriented towards providing an individually focused innovation “workbench” for the lone [...]
Yesterday I tweeted (@carlfrappaolo) about a Boston Globe article on ECM search company, Endeca. I was going to let it go at that; congratulations Endeca for getting the attention of the Sunday Globe and for having the popular press cover the fact that search is more than just findability and Google, that search can be [...]
Last week, like hundreds of others, I attended the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. In this blog post I provide an overall impression of the conference, that in-turn lends insight into the state of the Enterprise 2.0 market in general.
After attending the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston last June, I blogged that for me, [...]
