On October 4-5, 2006, the Business Innovation Factory convened its second annual Collaborative Innovation Summit. BIF-2 featured storytellers who are redefining the rules of innovation and transforming how value is delivered in every arena, from health care and homeland security to education and entertainment. Continue reading
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KoBaS (Knowledge-Based customised Services) is a Framework Program Integrated project supporting the creation of a network of high-tech SMEs offering quickly deployable, affordable, easy-to-use, customised solutions to builders and users of manufacturing machines. Continue reading
Called the Next Level Weblog, IBM’s new blog, focuses on innovation in a number of contexts such as within society, finance, health, IT, marketing, public sector, and retail. It also covers personal innovation favourites, pitfalls of innovation, promising innovation trends, and the future enterprise. Continue reading
“Permanent Innovation: The Essential Guide to the Strategies, Principles and Practices of Successful Innovators”, is a new book that explores the essential strategies, principles, and practices of permanent innovation to help your company to become a permanent innovator, and perhaps even a leader.
The book is available for free download under a “Creative Commons” license. Continue reading
The Collaborative Technologies Conference (CTC) has explored the breadth of collaborative solutions, including real-time and asynchronous technologies, from both strategic and tactical perspectives. CTC was focused on the tools and techniques that best leverage the technical, productive and social aspects of IT and workgroup environments to build a cohesive collaboration strategy and empower a connected workforce. Continue reading
Eric von Hippel, Professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and Head of its Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group, explains how innovation by users provides a very necessary complement to and feedstock for manufacturer innovation.
A free copy of the book is available for download under Creative Commons License. Continue reading
MIT 2006 Innovations in Management conference showcases MIT Sloan School of Management faculty research that has a direct bearing on the innovation process and its implications for corporate performance. Continue reading