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(Culture and Climate for Innovation, Pervaiz K. Ahmed. European Journal of Innovation Management. Bradford: 1998. Vol. 1, Iss. 1; p. 30) Shared by Culture of Innovation group.

"To come up with the next iPad, Amazon or Facebook, the last thing potential innovators need is a group brainstorm session. What the pacesetters of the future really require, according to new Wharton research, is some time alone."

Requires signing up with Wharton, but I've read similar statements elsewhere. I could see how trying to get agreement from a group might stifle innovation, but many times throwing out an idea to a group creates a synergy and improves upon the idea. Sorry I can't see all their points without signing up.

Link shared by group organizing activities for the library goal, Be a culture of innovation.

Attendees of the "Play, Learn, Innovate" Symposium on June 7-cosponsored by OCLC and Library Journal-came to get a glimpse of how playfulness and game-like programs and activities might stimulate interest in patrons and innovation among the staff. What they got was a two-hour primer on how a shift away from content consumption may offer libraries a new role in fostering user engagement and promoting creative output. More than 1000 users registered for the session, with some 500 attending live.

Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In their new book, The Innovator's DNA, authors Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen, and Clayton M. Christensen build on the idea of disruptive innovation to explain how and why the Steve Jobses and Jeff Bezoses of the world are so successful.

These are my slides from the panel I did at TLA with Stephen Abram and John Blyberg. You know, if you look at these slides, you will find out everything I am secretly planning! :-)

In his 12 strategies to make libraries "fit" Bell, among other things, talks about smart innovation and gives examples of companies who weren't so smart.

Reiterates findings we've discussed such as a risk-tolerant culture.

"It's time for younger librarians to claim the future. I was intrigued when I saw an announcement for an ARL-CNI meeting, "Achieving Strategic Change in Research Libraries", to be held in mid October, because Lord knows this is a good time for strategic change. Yet when I clicked through to the program, I was sorely disappointed. The program is oriented toward library directors talking amongst themselves. In the growing string of strategy meetings and whitepaper collections coming from research library organizations, I see many familiar names. While I find these individuals to be brilliant, thoughtful people, I don't believe much will come out of their talking amongst each other for another day. Library leadership has been discussing emergent roles for libraries for over a decade."