The cover for Conquering Innovation Fatigue is intended to show that there are ways to get past the maze of barriers that can hinder innovators, entrepreneurs and businesses in their quest to develop successful innovation. We looked at many different options for graphics on the cover, but I was hooked on the maze and plank …
Last week I called a friend and inspiration, Verna Allee, the founder of ValueNetworks.com and the driving force behind many successful applications of Value Network Analysis. I was pleased to learn that ValueNetworks.com was receiving a significant honor from the IT analyst firm Gartner. The award names Verna’s organization as a “Cool Vendor” in the …
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In Conquering Innovation Fatigue, we identify nine innovation fatigue factors at three levels: personal (including deficiencies in innovators themselves as well as personal actions of others), organizational, and external. We use nine fatigue factor icons, designed by artist Mark Benyo of Appleton, Wisconsin, to graphically capture some aspect of each of these fatigue factors. Here …
Clicking on the book cover image to the left takes one to the Amazon.com site for the book. It’s one of those messy URLs, of course. To simplify life for those wishing to tell others how to order Conquering Innovation Fatigue, we’ve created a TinyURL link: tinyurl.com/nofatigue. Tangential tip: TinyURL.com is one of many URL …
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After an exciting visit to the Milwaukee Public Musuem a few years ago with my sons, we went to a nearby national chain pizza shop where we placed an order and waited for our pizza. And waited and waited. We were some of the only customers there, so we were puzzled over the excessive wait. …
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Over at the IP Asset Maximizer Blog, guest blogger Scott Garrison provides a dramatic story of wasted IP within a large corporation. Basically, after spending a large sum of money for IP in a breakthrough area, a major corporation took a series of missteps that eroded much of the value of the acquired patents. Ultimately, …
Chapter 8 of Conquering Innovation Fatigue deals with some challenges faced 5-10 years ago by some engineers at Hewlett-Packard’s Boise offices. The story, based on an interview with an HP innovator from that era, provides important lessons about unintended consequences of seemingly logical corporate policies, and warns that innovation can be damaged even as a …
This new book by Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Cheryl Perkins, and Mukund Karanjikar (John Wiley & Sons, July 2009) reveals the sometimes hidden barriers – nine major “innovation fatigue factors†– that can block the path to innovation success, and shows how to face them.