Fair Winds: linkage report
At the ripe young age of one month, The Heart of Innovation has been attracting some attention on the Web. Several blogs have picked up on our conversation recently:
Fast Company --
FC Now, Fast Company magazine's regular staff blog, ran an Innovation Wednesday feature, "Corel's Virtual Garage" (8/22) based on Mitch's post, "It's Innovation Time at the OK Corel."
They really got into it in depth:
"Intrigued by the Corel concept -- I first heard about it here - I got in touch with Adam McKinty, Director of User Experience Design at Corel, and Jennifer Fraser, the Lead User Experience Designer, who walked me through the development of the system."
And they got off one pretty sly remark in particular:
"At the end of the day, innovation must create value. (Otherwise it's just bloviation, which can also only be measured using trailing indicators.)"
InnovationTools --
Chuck Frey posted a summary on InnovationTools.com of Tim Moore's deconstruction of the failed Apple Newton.
Big Problem or Right Problem? The Egg Freckles Saga (8/17)
"Tim tells this innovation case history in a very engaging style. I highly recommend that you read it," Frey says.
Innovationpartners --
"En weblog om IP og Innovation,' Denmark. This Danish blog also just published an item on Tim's Newton story, "Succesfuld innovation løser det rigtige problem." But we really can't tell you anything about their take, because it is in Danish, which AltaVista's Babelfish translation ne parlez pas.
For anyone who does read the language, though, you'll be amused by their conclusion:
"Apple tabte markedet og en halv milliard dollars i forsknings udgifter. Hvad er moralen? Den er:* fokuser på din kunde
* hvad vil han have for en løsning,
* vil din løsning give ham mere værdi i forhold til andre"Det er jo ren LEAN ;-) "
Added us to their Blogrolls
- InnovationTools, "Innovation & Creativity Weblogs"
- Think For A Change (Paul Williams), "Innovation Blogroll"
(We watch these developments mostly from our lofty treetop perch on Technorati, where we can spot who in their network, at least, has found us.)
Thanks for reading!
Posted by Bill Ross at August 25, 2007 03:56 PM
Comments
Hi
Just saw that you didn't read danish all that well. My blogpost is mainly a retelling of your Apple story.
My conclusions are: Focus on your customer and his needs/wishes and consider if your solution is the one giving him the best value. My ending comment is that those principles resemble the LEAN principles.
Thanks for an interesting case
Posted by: Kristian Beyer at August 26, 2007 05:30 AM
To Kristian Beyer:
>> Just saw that you didn't read danish all that well.
Oh, no, not in the least! Thanks for translating the "moralen" for us.
(Note: Kristian Beyer is the author of Innovationpartners, the Danish blog we blindly, trustingly, and it turns out appropriately quoted above about their post on Tim Moore's Newton piece.)
Posted by: Bill Ross at August 28, 2007 01:08 PM
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