Innovation Excellence
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June 2011 - Vol 5, Issue 6
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Free Sample Chapter - Great Open Innovation Book
Amazon's Innovation Philosophy
Top Tweets from Twitter
DMAIC for Innovation
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Free Sample Chapter - Great Open Innovation Book  


Free Sample Chapter - Great Open Innovation Book

I'd like to call your attention to a very interesting book on Crowdsourcing and Open Innovation, called - not coincidentally:

 

A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing

 

This inexpensive but valuable book is published by Kogan Page and is edited by Blogging Innovation contributor Paul Sloane.

 

Amazon's Innovation Philosophy   


Amazon's Innovation Philosophy

What may have started with a question from @evanjacobs at Amazon.com's shareholder meeting, ended with interesting commentary from Amazon's CEO - Jeff Bezos - on their philosophy around invention, innovation, and risk taking.

 

The key insights I extracted from Bezos' response to the question about their lack of big visible market failures and whether Amazon is continuing to take bold enough risks are as follows:

 

Top Tweets from @innovate on Twitter
 
Top Tweets from @Innovate on TwitterTweet #1 - May's Top 10 Innovation and Marketing Articles - http://ht.ly/5syFM
Tweet #2
- CEOs, Innovation and Growth - http://ht.ly/5sDDd
Tweet #3
 - Does your structure help or hinder innovation? - http://ht.ly/5sDG8
Tweet #4 - Managing Open Innovation Roadblocks - http://ht.ly/5sDIP

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DMAIC for Innovation

DMAIC for Innovation

Can the popular Six Sigma framework be adapted to look at innovation?

 

Much has been written about how a formal Six Sigma approach and a formal approach to innovation cannot co-exist. But is that really true?


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Braden Kelley
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