Innovation and Idea Management (Knowledge Creation)

Innovation and Idea Management Sites:

Corporate Innovation Blog Corporate Innovation Blog: A daily blog - focuses on Innovation, Knowledge Management and Idea Management Research. Contains not only original research, but also highlights articles and web sites in the topics covered. (Innovation and Idea Management) http://imaginatikresearch.blogspot.com/ BMW Virtual Innovation Agency BMW Virtual Innovation Agency: BMW's "Virtual Innovation Agency" gathers feedback and ideas from outside sources - complete with legal waivers and codes of conduct to protect themselves. Of particular note is their document concerning the "evaluation of unprotected ideas (Innovation and Idea Management) http://www.bmwgroup.com/e/nav/index.html?http://www.bmwgroup.com/e/0_0_www_bmwgroup_com/7_innovation/7_innovation.shtml?7_0 Bringing Ideas to Life: Seven Principles for Pulling Together Bringing Ideas to Life: Seven Principles for Pulling Together: Bring an idea to life by developing the idea and enhancing relationships with coworkers simultaneously. By Rick Maurer, in CEO Refresher. (Innovation and Idea Management) http://www.refresher.com/!rmideas.html C. W. Prather & Associates C. W. Prather & Associates: A resource company that helps individuals and companies with creative thinking, problem solving, and innovation with training programs and consulting. It focuses on the management of ideas so they go somewhere. (Innovation and Idea Management) http://www.bottomlineinnovation.com/ Gartner Group Gartner Group: Research and analysis company - has a couple of great documents on Innovation - "The Survey of Innovation Management Technology" , and "Focusing the Innovation Process" to name but two - but you have to pay to get access to them. (Innovation and Idea Management) http://www.gartner.com Inventions Network. Inventions Network.: Allows companies, individuals, universities, and national agencies to buy and sell ideas, inventions, patents, copyrighted works, trademarks, and other intellectual property. (Innovation and Idea Management) http://www.newideatrade.com/inventions.htm Imaginatik Imaginatik: World-wide leader for Software and Research on Enterprise-wide Innovation Management, Idea Management, Knowledge Management, and Employee Suggestion Systems. Imaginatik technology is used for New Product Development, Stage Gate processes, and other B2E an (Innovation and Idea Management) http://www.imaginatik.com Knowledge Central is the iconic hub of the Knowledge Campus Knowledge Central is the iconic hub of the Knowledge Campus: Knowledge Central is the iconic hub of the Knowledge Campus, which enables its occupiers to access shared services, marketing, and business support to increase their competitiveness. (Innovation and Idea Management) http://www.knowledge-central.co.uk The Innovation Resource Consulting Group The Innovation Resource Consulting Group: Consulting firm led by author Robert Cooper dedicated to helping companies accelerate growth by improving their total approach to making new ideas happen. (Innovation and Idea Management) http://www.innovationresource.com InnoTown Innovation & Design Conference InnoTown Innovation & Design Conference: Annual conference in Norway dedicated to creativity, innovation and design in the business world. (Innovation and Idea Management) http://www.innotown.org CREATEProject CREATEProject: web site for the European Project named CREATE, Creative Processes for Innovation in Enterprises (Innovation and Idea Management) http://www.diegm.uniud.it/create/ Creative Advantage Creative Advantage: Offers a comprehensive approach to strategic innovation which integrates training, facilitation, leadership development, team building, brainstorming and new product development. (Innovation and Idea Management) http://www.creativeadvantage.com Innovation Network: Corporate Innovation & Creativity Innovation Network: Corporate Innovation & Creativity: The Innovation Network is an association of companies and employees committed to innovation. The site features some interesting articles as well as some fun tools related to innovation (Innovation and Idea Management) http://www.thinksmart.com/ InnovateEurope 2004 Conference InnovateEurope 2004 Conference: Premier European conference on Innovation which this year brings some of the world's top innovating practitioners and thought leaders to London, England in November 2004 (Innovation and Idea Management) http://www.innovateeurope.com Information Week Article - "A Timely Notion Worth Considering" Information Week Article - "A Timely Notion Worth Considering": Tony Kontzer wrote this piece that was amongst the first public articles explicitly linking idea management and knowledge management together. It also includes a run down of some of the better-known vendors and includes the now-wellknown quote that " (Innovation and Idea Management) http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020321S0009 BCG Publications - "Innovation" BCG Publications - "Innovation": Boston Consulting Group (BCG) have recently started coming up with some very interesting articles on innovation, and although they don't seem to have an innovation specific section to their site - or to their consulting practice - doing a quick search for (Innovation and Idea Management) http://www.bcg.com/publications/publications_search_results.jsp?analyze=0&coMiLanguage=en&pmLanguage=001&START_IT=0&SEARCH_TYPE=word&ORDER_BY=&DISPLAY=1&FORM_STATUS=submitted&INDUSTRY=&FUNCTION=&PUB_TYPE=&LANGUA Brainfruit Brainfruit: BrainFruit's newsletter is produced once every 12 weeks and aims simply to put in front of you some new ideas that are shaping the way the world is working. Some are logical extensions of the way we work, others are out-of-the-box new businesses - but all (Innovation and Idea Management) http://www.brain-fruit.com/ Winston Brill - Creativity Comments Winston Brill - Creativity Comments: Winston Brill's work is frequently quoted now - and his e-newsletter, the Monthly Mentor is a publication that frequently contains some great nuggets of wisdom on the topics of creativity, the value of ideas, and other innovation related topics. (Innovation and Idea Management) http://www.winstonbrill.com/bril001/html/comments/comments.html IdeaFlow: Creativity, Innovation IdeaFlow: Creativity, Innovation: IdeaFlow is a particularly interesting innovation Blog with several very noted contributors such as the InnovationNetwork's Joyce Wycoff and Hass Business School's Henry Chesbrough. The contributions run the gamut from creativity puzzles, to conference up (Innovation and Idea Management) http://www.corante.com/ideaflow/ Product Development and Management Association Product Development and Management Association: Founded in 1976, the PDMA is a volunteer-driven, not-for-profit organization with the mission to improve the effectiveness of people engaged in developing and managing new products, covering new goods as well as services (Innovation and Idea Management) http://www.pdma.org Innovation Convergence 2004 Innovation Convergence 2004: Themed "Smart Thinking in Challenging Times," designed to help attendees bring innovation alive within organizations by addressing challenges in innovation leadership, new product and service development and the creation of a culture that suppor (Innovation and Idea Management) http://www.iirusa.com/convergence The Miami Herald | 09/02/2002 | Daydreaming can pay off if employees share their ideas The Miami Herald | 09/02/2002 | Daydreaming can pay off if employees share their ideas: An interview with Charles Thompson of the Creative Group, talking about the value that companies can get through idea sharing and a formalised idea management program (Innovation and Idea Management) http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/3974190.htm Ideadollar - Turning ideas into products Ideadollar - Turning ideas into products: Although IdeaDollar is now a dead and defunct internet company, the concept behind this company is still incredibly interesting - and may yet have its place in commerce at some point. Companies like IdeaDollar were the first to take idea management to the (Innovation and Idea Management) http://www.ideadollar.com/idollar.nsf/aboutus?openframeset Directives Enterprises Directives Enterprises: Innovation consultants based in Australia. Assist companies to conceive and develop new product ideas. Provides creative thinking workshops, invention services, opportunity identification and evaluation, and market research services. (Innovation and Idea Management) http://www.directives.com.au IM-BOOT Creativity, Innovation Circle & Innovation Management IM-BOOT Creativity, Innovation Circle & Innovation Management: An interesting website that attempts to connect people together with a strong focus on innovation, innovation management or idea creation. (Innovation and Idea Management) http://innovation.im-boot.org InnovationTools InnovationTools: A portal that features a collection of software tools, articles, news, and links for developing creative solutions for businesses. (Innovation and Idea Management) http://www.innovationtools.com