Innovation process?

2 comments | Posted June 16th, 2010 in Business Process Management, Customer Focus, Ideas | Tags: , , ,

Earlier this week I had lunch with @Cjack_HC, @ElliotLeson, @Westdene64, and a few others. I joined the lunch late as the group was in the middle of a brainstorming session on creating names for business card designs.  Sounds easy, but I found the task pretty challenging.  It made me think of the age old question “Is [...]

Innovation sourced from standard processes?

Leave a comment | Posted May 2nd, 2009 in Ideas | Tags: , , , , ,

Innovation from the everyday

In a MBA class last year I took the following note during a lecture:

Drucker – creativity and innovation driven off standard process

This week I found that note in a review of some materials and thought it would be a good topic for further thought. Peter Drucker lists process need as one of [...]

Thoughts on serendipity and managed processes

Leave a comment | Posted November 15th, 2008 in Ideas | Tags: , ,

Question: Should we rely on serendipity or a managed process for incremental innovation?

I’ve been asked to answer this question as part of an assignment.  I thought it would be good to record the answer here. It’s not because I think my answer is anything great or has uncovered some train of thought that no one else [...]