Innovation and improvisation have a lot in common. Both are areas in which you work without a script to create something out of nothing. You work in teams to co-create solutions, incorporating suggestions from the audience (customers). One of the tenets of improvisation is the “Yes and” rule. That is, when someone makes a suggestion,
Yesterday’s innochat was about best-selling innovation books, with the discussion focusing on why there are few “best sellers” and what characteristics make a book about innovation valuable. Innochat participants described their favorite innovation books. Here’s a roundup of their recommendations, which expands on our earlier related post, Recommended Sources on Collaborate Innovation. Renee Hopkins (@Renee_Hopkins) recommended
During our Collaborative Innovation: The State of Engagement webinar, we were asked, “What sources on collaborative innovation do you recommend?” We answered the question during the talk but promised to collect and broaden our responses, so here they are. Drew Marshall recommends: Swarm Creativity: Competitive Advantage through Collaborative Innovation Networks – Peter Gloor Made to Stick
With this post, my first of the New Year, I’m introducing one of my favorite types of blog posts, the link roundup. Each week I’ll share a roundup of four or five of the most interesting things I’ve read recently on collaboration and innovation, starting right here: MIT Management Professor Tom Malone on Collective Intelligence