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 [...]
Last week the Enterprise 2.0 Conference was held right here in my hometown, Boston MA. As usual, the E2.0 community was abuzz with Twitter (#e2conf). But, now, with the show a happy memory, many of us attendees reflect more deeply than 140 characters allows, in our blog posts. The blogosphere is ripe with conference coverage. [...]
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 [...]
Even if you are not a techie or ECMer, it would have been hard to miss all the marketing and press that has surrounded the iPad lately. Numerous articles have weighed in on whether or not Apple will be a success both long and short term, what this means to Amazon, etc.
Relevant? yes. Interesting? Somewhat, [...]
The Harvard Business Review’s Daily Stat for Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 highlights a disruptive innovation in, of all things, census-taking.
It’s the battle against paper and electronic, and guess who leads the race?
According to the HBR Daily Stat (and the original source, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística):
It’s a national census of hundreds of millions of [...]
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 [...]
