Comments on: 1st Meeting of the BQF Innovation Unit

By: Paul Sloane

Paul Sloane — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:26:35 +0000

Robin,’I would be interested in understanding what the key differentiators are between a company that innovates successfully and one that does not in terms of their approach to People, Processes and Technology.’There are a number of good books on this topic including works by Gary Hamel and Clayton Christenson. Also my book, The Leader’s Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills, addresses these issues.’Also any examples of companies who have moved from being Laggards to Leaders in this area would I am sure be very inspiring.’Nokia was a wood pulp company that transformed itself into a high-tech innovation powerhouse. A more local example is BT who have moved from public sector laggard to their dynamic status today.

By: Terry Pilcher, BCS Management Services

Terry Pilcher, BCS Management Services — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:26:10 +0000

All member companies of BQF have access to http://www.bpir.com as part of their membership. If they log in using their user name and password, which they were given, they will see at the bottom of the BPIR circle ‘Management Briefs’ listed. Hit that and ‘issues’ will appear in a box which when hit will take you to the Management Brief page. Listed amongst the topics down the left hand side of the page are the following, which should be of interest: Knowledge Creation;Managing Innovation;Employee Suggestion Schemes

By: Robin Mar, Royalmail

Robin Mar, Royalmail — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:24:39 +0000

I would be interested in understanding what the key differentiators are between a company that innovates successfully and one that does not in terms of their approach to People, Processes and Technology. Also any examples of companies who have moved from being Laggards to Leaders in this area would I am sure be very inspiring.

By: Coellie Hamlyn (Land Securities Trillium)

Coellie Hamlyn (Land Securities Trillium) — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:23:43 +0000

Was inspired by all three talks at the BQF innovation event on May 16th. Think that all the future innovation titles look good. I guess fear will come under the one on barriers to implementation!