The World’s 50 most Innovative Companies

Businessweek has collaborated with Boston Consulting Group to publish their 2010 list of the 50 most innovative companies in the world based on a survey of corporate executives.  Here is the full list.  It is an interactive table.  And here is a slide show commentary on the top 25.

There has been considerable movement in [...]

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Innovation at Nokia

At today’s meeting of the BQF Innovation Unit we had an interesting talk from Pekka Pohjakallio, VP of Concepting and Innovation at Nokia.  Because of the ban on flights he was unable to attend in person so we had a voice over IP link to go with his powerpoint presentation.  He covered a tremendous amount [...]

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Six Serving Men – problem analysis technique

This problem analysis method examines an issue from twelve different viewpoints.  It is based on the words of the poem by Rudyard Kipling:

I keep six honest serving men, they taught me all I knew.

Their names are What and Why and When

and How and Where and Who.

We probe the topic using these [...]

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Praise the Behaviours you want to see

If you want to change the culture of the organisation then one of the best ways to do it is to praise the behaviours you want to see.  If you want your people to be more adventurous, more entrepreneurial and more innovative then make a point of singling out for recognition those people who are [...]

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