To boost innovation just keep the boss away!

Billions of dollars are spent on developing and launching new consumer packaged goods (CPG) products each year, and some companies see tremendous success while others – don’t.  Why?  One secret appears to lie in the degree of senior management involvement in the creative process, according to a study by The Nielsen Company. 

Nielsen’s research of [...]

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Book Review – The Future of Management

In this significant new work, Gary Hamel challenges our thinking about management.  He argues that the management methods used in most organisations are relics of systems designed over 100 years ago to control and command.  They are inappropriate, inadequate and obstructive for knowledge-based 21st century organisations that want to be agile and innovative.  He gives detailed [...]

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Knowledge Management for Innovation

We had a successful meeting of the BQF Innovation Unit today in London where the topic was Knowledge Management for Innovation. Professor Michael Kelleher gave a comprehensive explanation of KM. Some of the points he made were:

The cost of ignorance is high. NASA and the British Nuclear Industry both lost important early knowledge. You [...]

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