I moderated a workshop on Innovation Management today and put some Links to important Information here.

I would be happy if participants fill out our Feedback-Form (german) (Code of  Event/Veranstaltungsnummer: 1323),  so we can  improve and learn from this event.

Terminology

• “Making innovations” vs. “Being  innovative”
• Innovation, Invention, Idea, Creativity, Thinking, Systems Thinking
• Diffusion of innovations theory
• Learning Organization
• Organization as a complex adaptive system
• Autopoesis (Self-(Re-)Creation)
  
• Innovation Management and Knowledge Management
• Mission, values, vision and strategy as a innovation framework

Image: Concept Map Learning Organization we will use 

Context Setting

• Learning Organizations
  • Toyota (Winner of the MAKE-Award 2006)
  • General Electric (4E, Boundaryless)
  • British Petrol (Learning to fly)
  • 3M (Creating Breakthroughs at 3M in Harvard Business Review on Innovation)
• Innovation Processes
  • Birgit Verworn, Cornelius Herstatt: Modelle des Innovationsprozesses
  • ETH Zürich – Portal zur Produktinnovation (Innovationsprozess-Modell)
  • 3M Continuous innovation process (in The Knowledge Creating Company)
  • Audi Project “Methoden der Innovationsbewertung in der Vorentwicklung” an der INI.TUM
• Innovation Methods
  • Open Innovation vs. Closed Innovation
  • TRIZ
  • Nonaka’s SECI-Model (Matsushita’s twisting-stretch-example) (in The Knowledge Creating Company)
  • Lead User Process (Creating Breakthroughs at 3M in Harvard Business Review on Innovation)
  • Value Curve (Creating New Market Space in Harvard Business Review on Innovation)

Short Presentation on Social  Software and Web 2.0

• Social Software, Social Constructivism, Web 2.0, RSS, Wiki, Weblog, Social Networking, Social Bookmarking
• Wikis
  • Wikipedia
  • Cogneon Wiki
  • KM Wiki
• Weblogs
  • Weiterbildungsblog
  • Saftblog
  • Google Blog
  • Google Blogsearch: Blog Search Engine
  • Technorati: Blog Search Engine
• Social  Networking
  • openBC
  • linkedin
• Social Bookmarking
  • del.icio.us
• Other
  • Freemind: Free Mindmapping Tool
  • Timeline: Free Web-2.0-Tool to visualize temporal information
  • Google Trends on Web 2.0

Sources

Blogs and Podcasts

• Recommendation: Killer Innovations Podcast
• Recommendation: Knowledge-at-work: Weblog von Denham Grey
• Bob Sutton – Work Matters (Author of The knowing doing gap)
• Paul Sloane: A ten-step program for building an innovative organization

Websites

• Survey reveals changing perceptions about innovation on ReliablePlant
• Commission of the European Communities: Innovation policy: updating the Union’s approach in the context of the Lisbon strategy
• Trendchart – Innovation Policy in Europe
• Siemens Innovation Strategy
• Siemens Horizons 2020: Zukunft vorausdenken
• Council on Competitiveness

Books and Articles

Note: The books are linked to a page in our portal where you will find a link to the book in amazon in the right navigation column. Freely avaliable resources are marked with “(free)”. The resources are orderd by the first letter of the first name of the auther not by importance (except the recommendations at the beginning of the list).

1. Recommendation: Peter Drucker: My Life as a Knowledge Worker (free)
2. Recommendation: Karl Wiig: Knowledge Management: An Emerging Discipline Rooted in a long History. (free)
3. Recommendation: Conversation with Professor Ikujiro Nonaka (Hitotsubashi ICS): Knowledge Has to Do with Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. (free)
4. Recommendation: Jeffrey K. Liker: The Toyota Way
5. Recommendation: Chris Collison, Geoff Parcell (BP): Learning to fly
6. Recommendation: Thomas H. Davenport, Laurence Prusak (IBM): Working Knowledge
7. Recommendation: Harvard Business Review on Innovation (Value Curve, Lead User Process, User Innovation)
8. Recommendation: Hirotaka Takeuchi, Ikujiro Nonaka (Hitotsubashi Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy): Hitotsubashi on Knowledge Management
9. Abdul Samad Kazi, Patricia Wolf: Real-Life Knowledge Management – Lessons from the field (free)
10. Debra M. Amidon: The Innovation Super Highway
11. Eric von Hippel: Books (Democratizing Innovation, The Sources of Innovation), Papers (Lead Users: A Source of Novel Product Concepts) and Video Tutorials (Overview of the lead user process) (free)
12. Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, William M. Snyder: Cultivating Communities of Practice
13. Georg von Krogh, Kazuo Ichijo, Ikujiro Nonaka: Enabling Knowledge Creation
14. Henry Chesbrough (Center for Open Innovation): Open Innovation: The New Imperative For Creating and Profiting from Technology
15. IDEO Method Cards
16. Ikujiro Nonaka, Hirotaka Takeuchi: The Knowledge Creating Company
17. James C. Kaufman, Robert J. Sternberg: The International Handbook of Creativity
18. James Surowiecki: The Wisdom of the Crowds (Collective Intelligence)
19. Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton: The Knowing Doing Gap
20. Ludwig Wiesenbauer: Erfolgsfaktor Wissen
21. McK Wissen 15: Innovation
22. McK Wissen 17: Wissen
23. Michael A. West: Innovation und Kreativität
24. Peter M. Senge: The Fifth Discipline
25. Reinmann-Rothmeier, Mandl, Erlach, Neubauer: Wissensmanagement lernen
26. Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton: The Balanced Scorecard – Translating Strategy into Action
27. Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton: Strategy Maps – Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes
28. Tom Kelley: The Art of Innovation
29. Tom Kelley: The Ten Faces of Innovation
30. Verna Allee: The Knowledge Evolution
31. Walter Simon: Lust aufs Neue – Werkzeuge für das Innovationsmanagement

If you got further questions, don’t hesitate to contact me via E-Mail.