There are rules to innovation? Yes. At least 4.

Clay Christensen has set of rules. Emperically validated and checked, and all related to the way that new technologies are able to enter into the market and produce increasingly sophisticated users who demand more of these products and hopefully from the same value chain members. How is this accomplished? The Rules of Innovation

It’s not just innovation it’s innovation People

It’s not easy to deal with Managing People to Promote Innovation inside an organization because the reality is that the management is often the process of intrapreneurship. Unlike Entrepreneurshuip the waters inside an organization are a function often of fiefdoms In an article in the CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT journal above we see the basic outlines of mechanisms to keeps firms producing consistent innovastions and moving towards ROI specifically within the context of it’s people

older products + older users + new rules = big ROI

What is it about the way different generations perceive different functional capabilities ? Why is it that a young person wants to have their own way of doing things and an older person thinks these ways are not theirs? Ego? Functional specifics? No. A technology Elder Boom and previously is how you make it work inside your own firm.

Disruptive Incrementalism? Disruptive Innovation? Anything but the status quo is not disruptive.

It’s been argued that anything outside of the norm is considered disruptive. In actualoity that is called business, competition, and essentially, NPD. But how does disruptive incrementalism work and how can it benefit your organization? The like previous tells how to get started.

Innovation labs? It’s all in the physical

How is it then that a space can effect the pickup or desemination of innovation? This is the question that many organizations have posed and not many have understood. The Organizational Innovation Lab MAKING IT WORK CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT gives an insight into how this works, how it can work for you and of course, how this can turn into company wide ROI.

Looking to the Past for The Future’s Innovations

How did Marconi invent the wireless transeveier? A workshop. How did HP pump out the 1^st rounds of technologies that no one had seen before? A workshop. And MIT’s artcle on Looking to the Past for The Future’s Innovations tells how your firm can benefit from the same capabilities.

Telematics, Wireless Entertainment for Wheels – They're spinnin', They're spinnin' !!!

What’s happening in the car is yet another example of the power of wireless capabilities. From WAP to emerging technologies, it is what you carry in your pockets, your “phones” that will have the greatest impact on your shopping, research and driving experience and the car is yet another frontier for the expansion of the technology. MIT gives a good direction in their Wireless on Wheels article.

Can the Japaneese even crack creativity? Yes & very well.

Suggestions. Suggestions. Suggestions. How is it then that a culture so focused on hierarchial mechanisms for incrementalism benefits so highly from a suggestion based system? Simple. Focused incrementalism on the suggestions themselves. Of 10 firms systematically researches, all 10 had between 38 and 833.2 suggestions per employee greatly increasing the value to the firm of new product development initiatives as well as solutions to existing problems. How did they do it?  Here is how; Cracking the Incremental Paradigm of Japanese Creativity

Radical NPD is intrapreneurship and of 10/21 firms say they all face the same challenges

After investigating 21 manufacturing firms, it was found that the issue of resource allocation in radical NPD efforts inside the firm inevitably cause the most pain. How do you mitigate them? My Changing Strategies and Tactics for New Product Development to focus on external resources in a skunkworks model. Does it cause internal stress w/teams and those wanting to get ahead? Yes, but then again, no risk no reward and that’s not something employees want to hear however there are ways around it as presented here.

Want more synergy between marketing + R&D. The Matrix. It’s all in the matrix.

The steps for full integration and connection of Creating synergy between marketing and R&D is detailed in this article in the journal of Product Innovation Management detailing how large fortune 500 firms are able to coordinate the efforts of desperate geographic groups and assure that functionality and brand values are communicated to users.

Creative Propolution – pushing it forward

Sternberg, Kaufman, Pretz, get it right in their quantative research on Creative Propolution surrounding the 6 forms of creative leadership for innovation launches. Although missing the point of the initial internal senior management capability to stifle innovation due to internal politics, regardless a fulland well organized model is presented. For a framework, it solves the basic architecture surrounding creativity in organizations.  Based on the framework and a little awareness, any product can make it out. Here's how.

Stimulating the Potential: Creative Performance and Communication in Innovation Teams

How is it then to keep teams talking, and more making sure that they are formally and tactily communicating across sometimes disperse geographic environments? Technology? No. Micromanaging? No. Stimulating the Potential: Creative Performance and Communication in Innovation Teams  details 44 NPD teams in eleven companies, and particularly surprisingly that interaction frequency and subgroup-formation have negative relationship to team creativity. Why? Smaller is simply better. Here’s how they do it.

Check your creative head: Order and Disorder in Product Innovation Models

How is it that creativity is mitigated in an environment of corporate watchdogs and ROI demands? Via five NPD models presented: the sequential, compression, flexible, integrative and improvisational models a mechanism for product innovation management shows a changing position to less mechanistic, and towards organic models of, in particular, creativity better accepted as Order or maybe “Disorder” in Product Innovation Models