Innovation Insights
From the desk of Braden Kelley
July 2010 - Vol 4, Issue 6
In This Issue
Don't Make it Harder Than it is
Top Tweets from Twitter
Blogging Innovation on Your iPhone
Seven Successful Open Innovation Practices
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Don't Make it Harder Than it is
 
Take ThreeSometimes I think that people out there talking about innovation try and make crafting a good innovation process sound harder than it is and the work of making innovation happen sound easier than it really is. Whether this is self-serving behavior to try and drive people to buy their books or consulting services, I'm not sure, but let's give them the benefit of the doubt and assume it's not.
  
Top Tweets from @innovate on Twitter
 
Top Tweets from @Innovate on TwitterTweet #1 - June's Top 10 Innovation and Marketing Articles - http://ht.ly/2ewPJ
Tweet #2
 - Seven Words to Transform Your Sales - http://ht.ly/2eAy8
Tweet #3 - Leadership and Emotional Control - http://ht.ly/2eAFj
Tweet #4 - Innovation Perspectives - June Wrapup - http://ht.ly/2ewTM
 
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Get Blogging Innovation on Your iPhone
 
Innovate iPhone App ScreenshotYou can now get Blogging Innovation on your iPhone in an easy to use iPhone application put together by Blogging Innovation contributor Geoff Zoeckler. Download the app from the App Store and take us with you wherever you go. Okay, maybe not everywhere, that would be weird.
 
Seven Successful Open Innovation Practices
 
Seven Successful Open Innovation Practices
Last year I (Caspar van Rijnbach) had the opportunity to visit or speak to 24 organizations around the globe, for my research on open innovation practices. These companies included Philips, Kodak, Nokia, Telefonica, Siemens, Xerox and Dupont, but also highly innovative Brazilian firms such as Natura (cosmetics) Embraco (world leader in refrigeration) and Petrobras (one of the largest energy companies in the world) that have been implementing very successful innovation practices. When doing such research one always looks for good practices common between the companies, but also for the practices that make them stand out or be very successful through open innovation.
 
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