Innovation in Practice Blog
Innovation in Practice: Three Years and Counting!
Today marks the third anniversary of Innovation in Practice. I am happy to say I see no end in sight. Blogging is the ultimate truth serum: it helps you discover what you know, how you learn, and how you connect to a community of fellow bloggers. I use this blog to test my ideas, develop new ideas, and practice what I preach. I appreciate all of you who read this blog, and I encourage you to reach out to me. I welcome ways to improve the blog and I would love to hear topics you want me to focus on.
Crowdsourcing and the Task Unification Tool
Crowdsourcing has a crowd of critics. Crowdsourcing is the notion of distributed problem-solving where problems are broadcast to large groups of solvers in the form of an open call for solutions. The belief is that the “wisdom of the crowd” yields superior results over what individuals can do. The use of the term has spread to just about any activity that involves groups of people tackling an issue.
The critics have a point.
Innovation Sighting: New World Order with Attribute Dependency
One way to develop stronger innovation skills is to practice pattern recognition…seeing an inherent pattern used to create innovative products and services. Pattern recognition “builds innovation muscle” and makes you more adept at applying patterns to other products and services. Here is an interesting example that uses the S.I.T. pattern called Attribute Dependency. This pattern creates new (or breaks existing) dependencies between attributes of a product or service. It can also create dependencies between attributes of the product or service and its external environment.
Do you see the Attribute Dependency pattern in this map?
The LAB: Innovating the Blackberry with S.I.T. (November 2010)
Blackberry is taking a shellacking from iPhone and Android. It’s market share has declined 4% in four months. Why? The company drifted from a strategy built around its core competency and is frantically chasing its app-crazed competitors. Though Blackberry defined the smart phone category, it will lose its lead unless it changes.
Blackberry needs innovation. This month’s LAB outlines an approach for using the corporate innovation method, S.I.T., to Blackberry. The focus is how to disrupt iPhone and Droid and re-assert dominance in the smart phone category.
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