IIME Results

The fruits of the French collaboration on the IIME project:

http://www.europeansharedtreasure.eu/detail.php?id_project_base=2009-1-IE1-LEO04-00705

The 100 Lamest Excuses for Not Innovating

As they say "If you need to innovate, but find yourself procrastinating, your excuse is on this list. While you may have all the "proof" you need to prove yourself right, being right doesn't necessarily increase your odds of innovating. So, take a look, note the ones that bug you, and find a way to go over, under, around, or through them."

http://www.ideachampions.com/weblogs/archives/2011/09/the_top_100_lam.shtml

Top sources of innovative ideas

Who are YOU working with to getter more and better innovative ideas?

Keep the ball bouncing ...

These days, stock prices today may be drastically different from those tomorrow. But what doesn't change is change itself. So says the Harvard Business Review. Change, the post says, is here to stay, and companies should be conditioned to keep innovating with such frequent change. So, when it comes to innovation, the post offers three things to keep in mind. 

See the full story here.

The Concept of Innovation

Want to go deeper in your understanding of innovation? 
If you are unsure that you :

• understand why and how innovation is important
• recognise the benefits which innovation can confer on an innovating organisation

Then this unit is for you! Just go to the link below: http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=397393&direct=1

Our IIME "landing page"

This is THE single point-of-contact webpage for the IIME project. Visit our "landing page" at:
http://about.me/theinnovationspace

"Something's rotten in Denmark"?

From a recent article these figures on innovation were released by the Danish Chamber of Commerce and Statistics Denmark, and refer to Danish companies only:

1. Only 44 % of Danish companies engaged in innovation activities on products, services and processes

2. Only 21,3 % of the Danish companies have launched a new product or service in the last 3 years

I don't know what global figures are but some researchers state that most executives claim the main barrier to innovation is pressure to achieve short-term goals.

What do you think?

• What do you think the figures are in Ireland, UK, France, Germany, Romania, etc?
• Are you DOING innovation now?
• Why not (more)? What other barriers?

I invite all readers of this post (and especially the IIME workshop participants) to take a moment to post a comment.

Finally, perhaps things are not quite "rotten" ... but higher levels of participation can only help!