I’ve just added a few excerpts from the book. Click on the “Excerpts” button on the menu above. Later I’ll be adding some material from our chapter on the “Horn of Innovation,” which I think could be one of the most helpful chapters for innovation leaders in many firms. I also love the story of …
Those of you who follow me on Twitter may have seen a post last night pointing to a newly published resource about the US patent system from Wisconsin’s leading newspaper, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. In addition to a fascinating interactive resource at JSOnline.com, John Schmid and Ben Poston, two outstanding reporters, have prepared a valuable two-part …
The Reputation Institute has released its annual report, Global Reputation Pulse 2009, on the reputation of over 150 major corporations. The companies were in terms of seven aspects of reputation management: Products/Services, Innovation, Governance, Workplace, Citizenship, Leadership and Performance. The Reputation Pulse score is a measure of corporate reputation calculated by averaging perceptions of four …
Clicking on the book cover image to the left takes one to the Amazon.com site for the book. It’s one of those messy URLs, of course. To simplify life for those wishing to tell others how to order Conquering Innovation Fatigue, we’ve created a TinyURL link: tinyurl.com/nofatigue. Tangential tip: TinyURL.com is one of many URL …
Tinyurl.com/nofatigue – An Easy URL for the Amazon Link Read More »
After an exciting visit to the Milwaukee Public Musuem a few years ago with my sons, we went to a nearby national chain pizza shop where we placed an order and waited for our pizza. And waited and waited. We were some of the only customers there, so we were puzzled over the excessive wait. …
Misguided Priorities: An Easy Way to Foment Fatigue Read More »
Over at the IP Asset Maximizer Blog, guest blogger Scott Garrison provides a dramatic story of wasted IP within a large corporation. Basically, after spending a large sum of money for IP in a breakthrough area, a major corporation took a series of missteps that eroded much of the value of the acquired patents. Ultimately, …
Chapter 8 of Conquering Innovation Fatigue deals with some challenges faced 5-10 years ago by some engineers at Hewlett-Packard’s Boise offices. The story, based on an interview with an HP innovator from that era, provides important lessons about unintended consequences of seemingly logical corporate policies, and warns that innovation can be damaged even as a …