At the Women on Wall Street conference last night, Steven Berlin Johnson gave a keynote on how innovation happens. He has studied the history of breakthrough innovations and found a pattern: They are created not by “Eureka!” moments, but slow hunches that incubate, sometimes for decades, with diverse people collaborating to make unintended consequences. Here [...]

Nice summary of biz innovators and their success and failures: http://bit.ly/7wSkle. Excerpts below. I want to know what business stories gave you your greatest innovation lesson. “1. Think of things that never were and ask ‘why not?”: Bobby Kennedy’s famous motto is an apt description for the beginning of business innovation. Great ideas can strike [...]

At TEDxNY, we discussed William McDonough’s talk on cradle to cradle design. Hope you can join us next week – see http://tedxnewyork.blogspot.com/. The new Grey offices are amazing – open workspaces designed for collaboration – looks like an industrial-designed coffee bar. They reviewed this old talk in light of the COP15 (2009 United Nations Climate [...]

Fortune Brainstorm Tech blog: innovation doesn’t have to be risky. Excerpts below. Full post at http://bit.ly/59o6hT. I want to know: Are you focusing on innovation or survival? “Many companies remain shell-shocked from the past 18 months of economic disaster. As such, innovation – despite its potential rewards – is not exactly in fashion right now. [...]

Matthew May, Chief Strategist for MBox Design on 4 traps in the way of a culture of constant innovation. Excerpts below. Full post at http://bit.ly/4In4If. I want to know: What traps have you seen? “1. Swinging for fences. In sports we worship the game-clinching grand slam home run, the three-point field goal at the buzzer, [...]

Ad Age’s CMO Strategies analyzes hits + says they’re not luck or creative genius. Excerpts below. Full post at http://bit.ly/2580aJ I want to know: What predictors do you see for great innovation? “Popular opinion suggests that great innovation results from a mysterious combination of forces that make it appear to fall from the sky. Whether [...]

Amazing Sci-Fi Like Technology from a PhD student at MIT Media Labs at TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Talks. Called “Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology,” he’s figured out how to use any surface as a computer – a wall, piece of paper, your hand – just incredible. Watch and read at http://bit.ly/14hJcz. Posted [...]

Tom Peters offers 110 tips to promote your culture of innovation. I want to know what are your top innovation tips? Excerpts below. Start at http://bit.ly/8Datyy. “Recession or no recession, deep recession or not, the challenge to add more and more value grows, and the importance of innovation, and a culture of innovation, grows exponentially…. [...]

John Mariotti (CEO, The Enterprise Group) blogs in AmEx Innovation about The Search for Growth. I want to know: What do you see as the key to biz growth? Excerpts below. Full article at http://bit.ly/40lsLr. “Growth in sales revenue is hard to find these days. …When sales growth is achieved, it often comes without commensurate [...]

FastCompany recently interviewed Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the U of Toronto. He says innovation can be stymied by too much data. Excerpts below. See the whole post at http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/linda-tischler/design-times/whats-thwarting-american-innovation-too-much-science-says-roger-mar I want to know what do you think is the nemesis of innovation at most companies? “By pushing the principles [...]