Comments on: Creating a culture of innovation http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/09/02/creating-a-culture-of-innovation/ Nic Brisbourne's view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Martin Owen http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/09/02/creating-a-culture-of-innovation/#comment-3307 Martin Owen Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:18:21 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/09/02/creating-a-culture-of-innovation/#comment-3307 I agree with Alan.... I think there is a limit in looking at US companies. Nonaka (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Knowledge-creating-Company-Japanese-Companies-Innovation/dp/0195092694/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220360831&sr=8-1) said and continues to say much more interesting things- particularly about networks and social processes in innovation. There is a deep analysis of how "questioning, risk taking, openness, patience and trust" are actually achieved. I also think that ideas about "pull" innovation (eg JSB http://www.johnseelybrown.com/) provide good insight- use your customers and suppliers. I also think one difficulty lies in the clear difference between invention - having ideas, research -developing ideas, and innovation - making use of ideas. Invention arrives on the shoulders of giants. I agree with Alan…. I think there is a limit in looking at US companies. Nonaka (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Knowledge-creating-Company-Japanese-Companies-Innovation/dp/0195092694/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220360831&sr=8-1) said and continues to say much more interesting things- particularly about networks and social processes in innovation. There is a deep analysis of how “questioning, risk taking, openness, patience and trust” are actually achieved.

I also think that ideas about “pull” innovation (eg JSB http://www.johnseelybrown.com/) provide good insight- use your customers and suppliers.

I also think one difficulty lies in the clear difference between invention – having ideas, research -developing ideas, and innovation – making use of ideas. Invention arrives on the shoulders of giants.

]]> By: Martin Owen http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/09/02/creating-a-culture-of-innovation/#comment-11532 Martin Owen Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:18:00 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/09/02/creating-a-culture-of-innovation/#comment-11532 I agree with Alan.... I think there is a limit in looking at US companies. Nonaka (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Knowledge-creating-Company-Japanese-Companies-Innovation/dp/0195092694/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220360831&sr=8-1) said and continues to say much more interesting things- particularly about networks and social processes in innovation. There is a deep analysis of how "questioning, risk taking, openness, patience and trust" are actually achieved. I also think that ideas about "pull" innovation (eg JSB http://www.johnseelybrown.com/) provide good insight- use your customers and suppliers. I also think one difficulty lies in the clear difference between invention - having ideas, research -developing ideas, and innovation - making use of ideas. Invention arrives on the shoulders of giants. I agree with Alan…. I think there is a limit in looking at US companies. Nonaka (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Knowledge-creating-Company-Japanese-Companies-Innovation/dp/0195092694/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220360831&sr=8-1) said and continues to say much more interesting things- particularly about networks and social processes in innovation. There is a deep analysis of how “questioning, risk taking, openness, patience and trust” are actually achieved.

I also think that ideas about “pull” innovation (eg JSB http://www.johnseelybrown.com/) provide good insight- use your customers and suppliers.

I also think one difficulty lies in the clear difference between invention – having ideas, research -developing ideas, and innovation – making use of ideas. Invention arrives on the shoulders of giants.

]]> By: alan p http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/09/02/creating-a-culture-of-innovation/#comment-3301 alan p Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:08:41 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/09/02/creating-a-culture-of-innovation/#comment-3301 @ Nic - thanks for the link :-). Left an earlier comment but I think there was a server error, so apologies if this is a rehash. My actual interest was not so much the hype, more that there was an interesting phenomenon of new media impact on old methods. The PR campaign was spiking every 2 days or so, this was being picked up on aggregators (eg Techmeme) and thus essentially the same story was popping up there every 2 days - I called it "porpoising PR" as it reminds me of the way they keep on coming out the water ;) Re the book itself, I read the reviews and the first few pages online like you. At the risk of being caustic I didn't see anything innovative in what it was saying ;) @ Nic – thanks for the link :-) . Left an earlier comment but I think there was a server error, so apologies if this is a rehash.

My actual interest was not so much the hype, more that there was an interesting phenomenon of new media impact on old methods. The PR campaign was spiking every 2 days or so, this was being picked up on aggregators (eg Techmeme) and thus essentially the same story was popping up there every 2 days – I called it “porpoising PR” as it reminds me of the way they keep on coming out the water ;)

Re the book itself, I read the reviews and the first few pages online like you. At the risk of being caustic I didn’t see anything innovative in what it was saying ;)

]]> By: alan p http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/09/02/creating-a-culture-of-innovation/#comment-11533 alan p Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:08:00 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/09/02/creating-a-culture-of-innovation/#comment-11533 @ Nic - thanks for the link :-). Left an earlier comment but I think there was a server error, so apologies if this is a rehash. My actual interest was not so much the hype, more that there was an interesting phenomenon of new media impact on old methods. The PR campaign was spiking every 2 days or so, this was being picked up on aggregators (eg Techmeme) and thus essentially the same story was popping up there every 2 days - I called it "porpoising PR" as it reminds me of the way they keep on coming out the water ;) Re the book itself, I read the reviews and the first few pages online like you. At the risk of being caustic I didn't see anything innovative in what it was saying ;) @ Nic – thanks for the link :-) . Left an earlier comment but I think there was a server error, so apologies if this is a rehash.

My actual interest was not so much the hype, more that there was an interesting phenomenon of new media impact on old methods. The PR campaign was spiking every 2 days or so, this was being picked up on aggregators (eg Techmeme) and thus essentially the same story was popping up there every 2 days – I called it “porpoising PR” as it reminds me of the way they keep on coming out the water ;)

Re the book itself, I read the reviews and the first few pages online like you. At the risk of being caustic I didn’t see anything innovative in what it was saying ;)

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