""creative conversations don't happen because of a CEO mandate or a task force charter.
A 2005 MIT study found that 80 percent of the breakthrough innovations in products and services did not occur in formal situations or R&D. Rather, dynamic innovation was almost always the result of informal (even chance) encounters"."
""creative conversations don't happen because of a CEO mandate or a task force charter.
A 2005 MIT study found that 80 percent of the breakthrough innovations in products and services did not occur in formal situations or R&D. Rather, dynamic innovation was almost always the result of informal (even chance) encounters"."
"the Daphne-dilemma - facing attempts to improve the productivity of informal innovation networks: too little management effort may lead to under-exploitation of their potential and poor productivity, but too much management effort may destroy their informal nature and hence their creative and explorative potential."
"Academic paper on measuring informal innovation. The definition is "Innovation that is not explicitly planned and budgeted by identifying innovative
firms that do not conduct any R&D""
"Prof Gary Hamel of Harvard Business School uses the metaphor of learning golf as a way of illustrating the futility of simply providing tools for innovation"
Their products are interesting, but Charles Armstrong's views on his blog are even more interesting. They resonated highly with me, particularly the appropriateness of 'enterprise social computing' (or 'enterprise social systems' as one of his correspondents prefers).
"Dr Alex Linley website showing links articles and research in relation to developing strengths based organisations. Working with what people excel at rather than trying to develop their weaknesses."
"Be Confident, Be Successful, and Enjoy Better Relationships by Realising the Best of You! Dr Alex Linley who is a regular speaker at WBS share his insights on the Strengths Based approach to Organisational success"