Overview of an Innovation Workshop There are also times where an idea merits thoughtful exploration and add-on innovation. This is best done through structured work originally championed by the prolific IBM inventor John Cronin. He and his team developed a "Virtualized Innovation" process that delivers market-relevant, forward innovation concepts in a far shorter [...]
Previous sections of this book have dealt with the management of the research and development / innovation processes using both traditional stage-and-gate processes as well as a lean / agile processes. It is during those processes that IP creation and documentation occurs. Invention Disclosure has to be conducted real time to be effective [...]
When designing creative environments it’s also important to think about the cross functionality of the individuals involved. Franz Johansson, in his book “The Medici Effect”, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 2006, pointed out the degree to which interdisciplinary insight can create truly unique inventions and innovations. His premise on creativity was that in [...]
In conjunction with structured approaches of invention and innovation, the idea of providing individuals with environments that would allow them to dramatically increase their creative output was also undertaken by corporations such as Polaroid. The focus was on “learning to innovate” with respect to the innovation process, i.e. to learn how the elements [...]
Over the years there has much debate on whether creativity related to innovation or invention can be structured, or whether it is one of happenstance. It's an important question for New Business Development and R&D leaders to answer as it affects the fundamental design of such organizations. If one looks at recent R&D [...]
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