Innovation?

Innovation isn't doing something complicated, revolutionary or disruptive, it is doing something new.

Youth, Innovation, Cost

Strange dichotomy between age and youth, innovation and cost.  A Newsweek article, The Golden Age of Innovation says that older workers are more likely to innovate than younger workers.  Put that in context of this article from TechCrunch, Silicon Valley's Dark Secret: It's All About Age, that says that the Valley (most people equate the Silicon Valley with Innovation) does not value age or experience.

pii 2010

Privacy Identity and Innovation 2010 conference will take place in Seattle Washington, USA on 17-19 August 2010.

It's an all-hands-on-deck conference where industry executives, technologists, consumer advocates, policy experts and other stakeholders will come together as a group to examine critical issues like:  

• How emerging technologies & business models are impacting the way data is created, shared and aggregated
• Effective approaches for building online trust with users
• Ways in which user preferences and social norms are shifting
• Changes in the regulatory landscape, in the U.S. and internationally
• The role of anonymity and the future of reputation management on the Web
• The latest developments in user-centric identity management

Creativity Intelligence - CQ

An emerging school of thought is around Creativity Intelligence or CQ.  NussbaumOnDesign had an interesting post about CQ recently that I recommend you read.

There appears to have been a dumbing down of corporate intelligence.  No, people and corporations are not dumb.  What I've seen and experienced is the propensity to try and bring organizational structures and strictures to a common framework.  Often this accomplishes little and actually brings everyone down to the lowest common denominator.  This reinforces and does the opposite of what is intended.  People aren't encouraged to do more then their job requires.  It gets to the point where there is little or no passion around being creative, learning and applying knowledge.  What company's need to do is encourage creativity, not stifle it through HR policies.

One of my pet peeves is the way Human Resource organization in the U.S.A. seem to have accomplished the dumbing down of corporate life through standardization.  The goals were admirable, but the results are a homogeneous blah.    The fallacy of fairness I like to call it.  We hear that "we need to treat everyone fairly" and so HR implemented grade bands, and midpoints, and uniform review processes.  Yet no where do they take into account IQ or even CQ.  There is no flexibility there is no diversity of thought or action.

Four Network Patterns to Speed Innovation and Time to Market

Please note this upcoming webinar with Verna Allee on December 4, 2008 - 13:00 to 16:00 UTC.

The title of the webinar is Four Network Patterns to Speed Innovation and Time to Market.

For more information: http://valuenetworks.com/public/item/219361.