Corporate Innovation (Champions)
The Four Worst Innovation Assassins
Is there a corporate leader who doesn’t extol the virtues of innovation these days? Yet if innovation is so important, why do so many companies have so much trouble with it? Four examples of Managers who kill innovation.
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Can games change the way we think about the future?
Tanja Hichert will be a ‘game guide’ online for the next two days and certainly hope to ‘see’ some of you there. Please forward this note to those that you think may be interested.
3Apr2012 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
Innovating from the bottom up
Companies don’t need a ton of money to do innovative things. What they need is a willingness to listen to good ideas from their employees. Here are seven ways to innovate from the bottom up.
29Mar2012 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
Do South African organisations employ the required strategic intelligence to ensure innovation success?
In September 2011, Innocentrix and Digital Bridges conducted an opinion poll on the organisational innovation management approaches employed by South African organisations and obtained the opinions of senior innovation leaders in some of South Africa’s most respected organisations on the topic.
20Feb2012 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
Co-operatives for Development
By Glenn Ashton source: SACSIS Few South Africans realise the power of Co-operatives in the global economy. Canada, Norway, Italy, India, China and Brazil each have a significant amount of their GDP generated by Co-operative organisations. One in four citizens in the USA and Germany are members of Co-ops. The United Nations has proclaimed 2012 [...]
15Apr2011 | Saine | 2 comments | Continued
Call for policies to help small businesses tap into Open Innovation
Source: Science|Business Michael Kenward Experts attending the Science|Businesses ACES awards at ETH Zurich last month agreed Open Innovation can boost companies of any size, but policy changes are needed to help small businesses get involved In 2010 when GE wanted new ideas to develop the smart electricity distribution grid it embarked on what may have [...]
24Mar2011 | Saine | 3 comments | Continued
What Motivates Employees to Innovate?
by Freda Gray Could it be that encouraging employee innovation has more to do with an environment that allows for autonomy, mastery and realising a higher purpose and less to do with monetary rewards? Could it be that if you create the right environment, employees will generate and implement many worthwhile innovations? Creating a platform [...]
14Mar2011 | Saine | 5 comments | Continued
Moving towards an Innovation Marketplace Paradigm by Greg Z. Fainberg
Innovation can be defined as ‘the Implementation and commercialisation of new ideas that create value.’ Typically, the traditional models of innovation focus on establishing dedicated structures within organizations that are focussed on: Encouraging and surfacing ideas from across the company Refining those ideas that have potential Prototyping those ideas that have real merit and, Commercialising [...]
28Feb2011 | Saine | 1 comment | Continued
The Investment Climate in Brazil, India, and South Africa
Description: A strong investment climate is a platform for economic success. By creating opportunities and setting incentives for firms to invest and productively employ inputs, the investment climate is critical to economic growth and prosperity. Analyzing and comparing the investment climate of Brazil, India, and South Africa, three of today’s largest emerging economies, this book [...]
25Feb2011 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
Will they steal my big idea? By Gavin Symanowitz
So you’ve got a big idea. And now you’re trying to decide whether or not to approach that big company as a potential partner. On the one hand, working with this big company could be the boost you need to get the idea off the ground. On the other hand, the company might steal your [...]
17Jan2011 | Saine | 2 comments | Continued
Why is South Africa lagging behind emerging economies in terms of scientific productivity and quality?
Profile Vuyani Lingela is the Chief Director: International Research at the National Department of Science and Technology (DST. He was the Executive Director (Chief Director) at the National Advisory Council on Innovation (NACI) in the DST, where he managed the NACI Secretariat and provided strategic direction and support to the NACI Council. He was the [...]
11Jan2011 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
When should I approach that big company with my idea? by Gavin Symanowitz
So you’ve got a big idea. And now you’re trying to decide whether or not to approach that big company as a potential partner. On the one hand, working with this big company could be the boost you need to get the idea off the ground. On the other hand, the company might steal your [...]
3Jan2011 | Saine | 7 comments | Continued
New Report Helps Businesses Get Help with Open Innovation
Source: www.innovationmanagement.se Companies hoping to collaborate with other firms to create new innovative business opportunities will benefit from a new report by the University of Cambridge. The study tackles question of how to get help with open innovation. PUBLISHED: DECEMBER 2, 2010 | BY: KARIN WALL The approach, known as Open Innovation (OI), is a [...]
9Dec2010 | Saine | 1 comment | Continued
Communicating Innovation – A communication perspective for corporate innovation managers
by Marelie Ehlers It is not easy to implement an innovation programme that spans across the whole organisation. Unfortunately a lot of these initiatives fail or have a debatable degree of success. When asked about the reasons for the mediocre performance, more often than not inadequate communication will be listed as a weakness. How many [...]
6Dec2010 | Saine | 6 comments | Continued
Taking Leadership, Innovating Change: Profiles in Family, School, and Community Engagement
National Family, School, and Community Engagement Working Group March 2010 In the 2009 Federal Register Notice announcing the Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund, the U.S. Department of Education put the identification and scale-up of innovations at front and center in efforts to reform schools and improve student success. Given this renewed emphasis on innovation, the [...]
25Nov2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
