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Icon – Fast, Powerful, Free Way to Crowdsource Insight
By Hutch Carpenter | May 1, 2012 Today marks the official launch of Icon by Spigit. What is Icon? The platform for fast, easy and powerful engagement with your crowd to gain insight. Icon will deliver a completely different experience than anything you’ve seen. It employs a new voting mechanism, and game mechanics are part of its DNA. It’s pleasingly…
Read more »Bell Labs Created Our Digital World. What They Teach Us about Innovation.
By: Hutch Carpenter | April 16, 2012 What do these following crucial, society-altering innovations have in common? Transistors Silicon-based semiconductors Mobile communication Lasers Solar cells UNIX operating system Information theory (link) They all have origins in the amazing Idea Factory, AT&T’s Bell Labs. I’ve had a chance to learn about Bell Labs via Jon Gertner’s new book, The Idea Factory: Bell…
Read more »Opening the Practice of Collaborative Innovation to the End User
From innovationmanagement.se By: Doug Collins | March 14, 2012 Opening the Practice of Collaborative Innovation to the End User In a past article I provided a framework for thinking about the practice of collaborative innovation. I recommended that people new to the practice start their journey by pursuing the internally focused, enquiry-led form (figure 1). Figure 1: forms and areas…
Read more »10 Questions about Innovation Management
By: Hutch Carpenter | March 9, 2012 In a recent edition of Product Management Talk radio, I had the opportunity to speak on the topic, Expanding the Innovation Pie, along with Prabhakar Gopalan,corporate strategist at Dell. The show lasted an hour, and will be available as a podcast. In preparation for the show, host Cindy Solomonasked me to answer ten…
Read more »Why Your Brilliant Idea Just Got Watered Down to Nothing
By: James Gardner | March 6, 2012 What’s the reason so many great ideas turn out to be terrible ones once they’re out the door? Over time and many years, I’ve learned there are only a few reasons: “I did that” You know these people: they’re great at self promotion and talking loudly, but very poor at doing much else.…
Read more »Starting Up: London Vs. The Valley
By: James Gardner | February 16, 2012 These days, my job at Spigit has me spending 50% of my time in London, and the rest in California at our head offices in the East Bay area. This is very interesting, because it really illuminates the difference between startup world in both places. Firstly, the obvious: London may be a hot…
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