Nickname: Pete

Review: Great article! "Concept studios" selling back projects to the parent company is an interesting approach. Question: How mature do the projects have to be not to be filtered by the naysayers?

Date reviewed: Jan 3, 2006 10:49 AM

Nickname: Geev

Review: Innovation and invention will remain the most important part for any product and services offered by any company if they wish to be there for a long time. It is like a time bomb--if any organization thinks that they have a great product and success and do not need to innovate. It is important to know that there are many many products and services not yet invented in this world. If you will not innovate it somebody will. My advice to the corporate leaders is to be aware of this time bomb.

Date reviewed: Oct 1, 2005 4:18 AM

Nickname: Don O

Review: Great piece! I would only add the following. Use a smart pipe, tiered process for team innovation management. 1. Let innovators innovate for innovation sake. Their focus should be on deep needs, process transformations, and essential algorithms. 2. Let middle managers select promising innovations for benefit and value and provide steering guidance to innovators. 3. Let senior management select the most promising for competitiveness and productivity and provide steering guidance to middle management. Expect the enterprise direction to become innovation-driven.

Date reviewed: Sep 28, 2005 3:25 PM

Nickname: Tom Foale

Review: As Clayton Christensen has pointed out, the problem here normally comes at your first principle. Demands from existing customers fuels sustaining, not disruptive, innovation. Disruptive innovation can't be analyzed for growth potential because it creates new markets, so it usually gets filtered out either explicitly (it doesn't meet growth needs) or through internal pressure for staff to perform. Most businesses whose development teams have created disruptive innovations let them go elsewhere -- look at Xerox for an extreme example.

Date reviewed: Sep 28, 2005 7:15 AM

Nickname: obasi

Review: I like this. I wish that you send me more of this to my mail box.

Date reviewed: Sep 27, 2005 5:02 PM