For years, the answer was the US. But that’s been changing. According to a 2009 Economist Intelligence Unit study ranking the world’s most innovative countries, the US ties with Finland for 3rd place; Japan and Switzerland are 1st and 2nd. The Innovation Imperative study from Boston Consulting Group & The Manufacturing Institute, using different metrics, ranked the US Read the full article…
Last week I attended SDForum’s Open Innovation & Corporate Research Fair in Santa Clara, CA (in Silicon Valley). For those who don’t know, Open Innovation is collaboration among different entities (i.e., companies, governments, universities, individuals) to develop new ideas/products/services that create value. Henry Chesbrough of UC-Berkeley coined the phrase and has written several books about Read the full article…
Have you ever watched children play and see their uninhibited exploration, discovery and inventiveness? This weekend, while having dinner at a Japanese restaurant, I had the great pleasure of watching two young children sitting nearby doing just that. Taking one of the cloth napkins folded into a fancy, standing up shape the boy plopped it Read the full article…
Tuesday evening I attended the Bay Area CIO/IT Executive Meetup to learn about innovation at Intuit. A leader in personal and business financial software and services, Intuit has been ahead of the curve on those applications. But the speaker, Tad Milbourn, told us the story of how a team of new hires (4 people including Read the full article…
This is going to be my collection of thoughts, tips, questions and references on innovation (techniques, personal barriers, group dynamics, supportive environment/corporate culture), leadership, organizations, and women leaders. For me, these are all integrally related. In particular, Womennovation is the juncture of my interests in women, innovation, organizations, and teams. (I’m preparing to do a Read the full article…