Inspiration on innovation by Stefan Lindegaard
As one of my last touches on my upcoming book, I am creating a list of resources and people that I find useful in my work with innovation.
What and who do you consider to be good inspirational resources when it comes to innovation? I am always open for new inspiration…
Academics:
Chris Trimble (strategic innovation)
C.K. Prahalad (co-creation)
Clayton Christensen (disruptive innovation)
Erich Von Hippel (lead user innovation)
Henry Chesbrough (open innovation)
Kenneth P. Morse (entrepreneurship)
Vijay Govindarajan (strategic innovation)
Bloggers and thought leaders:
Blogging Innovation by Braden Kelley
Chris Anderson (author of The Long Tail and Free)
Innoblog
Innovate on Purpose by Jeffrey Phillips
Innovationtools by Chuck Frey
Gary Hamel (author of The Future of Management, Leading the Revolution)
Geoffrey Moore (author of Crossing the Chasm and Dealing with Darwin)
Guy Kawasaki (author of Reality Check, expert on blogging and Twitter)
Killer Innovations by Phil McKinney (executive at HP)
Malcolm Gladwell (author of The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers)
Open Innovators
Personal Branding Blog by Dan Schawbel
Seth Godin (marketing expert and best-selling author)
Think for a Change by Paul Williams
Tony Ulwick (Strategyn)
Corporate websites – examples of open innovation and crowdsourcing-like initiatives:
Dell Ideastorm
IBM
Netflix
Kraft
Procter & Gamble
Philips
Starbucks
Toyota
Consultants:
Bhaskar Chakravorti (McKinsey, Harvard)
Chasm Institute (Mark Cavender, go-to-market strategies)
Doblin (Ten Types of Innovation)
IDEO (design thinking and innovation)
Innosight (disruptive innovation)
Mike Grandinetti (go-to-market strategies, global innovation)
Radical Innovation Group (Joanne Hyland, breakthrough innovation and corporate venturing)
Whatif! (innovation and marketing)
Conferences:
Front End of Innovation
World Innovation Forum
Open Innovation Summit
Media, resources and tools:
Alltop
Bloglines (blog aggregation)
BusinessWeek
LinkedIn
InnovationTools
Twitter (searches on open innovation, innovation and US – India – China)
Open innovation marketplaces / intermediaries:
Ideablob (entrepreneurs and small businesses)
Innocentive
NineSigma
Yet2.com
Topcoder (software development)
YourEncore (retired and veteran brains)
You have a great resource of information on innovation you've listed here.
One name and organization i didn't notice is Tony Ulwick from Strategyn, i find his methodologies and thinking processes and most of all the discipline in the innovation process has had an affect on my thinking towards improving customers jobs to be done and disruptive marketing.
http://www.strategyn.com has some great articles and insights.
Great bit of resourcing Stefan.
Well done
Very nice list. Thank you.
I also really like Gary Hamel. http://blogs.wsj.com/management/
[...] talking about innovation http://stefanlindegaard.com/2009/08/03/inspiration/ by #MITSloanExecEd Posted on Mon 03 Aug 15:40 retweet 0 votes RT @andressa_kalil: talking [...]
Good list, I would also look to a few other sectors for inspiration:
1) Education – MIT OpenCourseWare
2) Government – CaBIG
3) Social Entrepreneurs/non-profits – Seven Fund Vine project
The examples I mentions are but a few in each sector. Granted, it's hard to find good examples in the government sector, but I keep looking.
I list a bunch of interesting sites in my blog.
Thanks for posting this, very helpful!
Thank you for share your list.
I use to look to, among others, Andrew Gaule – Open Innovation, Gary Hamel- Management, Dan Roam – Visualization, Dodgson – Tecnological Innovation.
Good job!
Excellent resource Stefan,
Well done and thanks. In terms of Creativity, I have always used Simon Majaro of Cranfield in the UK
Thank you very much for such an interesting information!
Stefan and others,
Great stuff!! You may want to add similar resources from countries who are leading the world in innovation like Israel,Japan,Korea,India and China.