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Entries in Innovation (19)
Can Social Media Help Change the Public's Perception of the Engineering Profession?
The National Academy of Engineering has published a report called Changing the Conversation: Messages for Improving Public Understanding of Engineering. Given the importance of the engineering profession to US competitiveness and innovation, I’m hoping that the important research described in the report hasn’t overlooked the opportunities social media provide for engaging the public in the types of “conversations” the title of the report seems to promote.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Social Networking, Innovation, Advertising, Demographics, Social Media, PR, Strategy
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When Do "Best Practices" Make Sense?
Matt Elliot’s Always looking for ‘best practices’ stifles innovation makes the case that slavishly adopting another organization’s “best practices” actually stifles innovation.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Best Practices, Innovation, Creativity, Management
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"Twitter" on the Factory Floor?
In Finally! Relevant Applications for YouTube and Twitter in the Enterprise! Jim MacLennan suggests some interesting ideas about using Twitter and YouTube in the context of an industrial manufacturing operation.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Collaboration, Innovation, Manufacturing, Twitter, YouTube, Process
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What's So New About the Outsourcing of Innovation?
This is a followup to the comments I received on my post Should You Outsource Your Organization’s Innovation Processes? I wrote that in response to some of the (semi-controversial) things that Jeffrey Phillips had said in his own blog post, You should outsource innovation if…
Dennis D. McDonald
in Collaboration, Social Networking, Innovation, Outsourcing, Creativity, Strategic Planning, R&D Management
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Should You Outsource Your Organization's Innovation Processes?
Innovation guru Jeffrey Phillips makes the following statement in You should outsource innovation if…:
Dennis D. McDonald
in Management Tools, Innovation, Outsourcing
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Will Merging U.S. Science Agencies Increase Innovation?
I read the news report Merger of US earth sciences agencies proposed by AP Science Writer Randolph E. Schmid with mixed feelings. The report describes a serious proposal to combine two US government agencies, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Dennis D. McDonald
in Governance, Collaboration, Innovation, Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, R&D Management
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How Corporate RSS Supports Collaboration and Innovation
If you haven’t seen it yet, check out corporate IT manager Jim MacLennan’s RSS: Underappreciated Web 2.0 in the Enterprise blog post.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Collaboration, Project Management, Innovation, RSS, Cost Analysis, Tagging, Metrics, Email, Adoption, PowerPoint, Knowledge Transfer
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Questions to Ask Before Replacing Corporate Email
This document discusses some of the questions you can ask about your organization’s current use of email and how improvements can be made. Also discussed is email’s impact on the adoption of new tools more suited to supporting workgroups and collaboration such as blogs, wikis, and groupsites for sharing information about people and projects.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Collaboration, Expertise Management, Innovation, Enterprise 2.0, Social Media, Email
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Which is More Important: Collaboration or Passion?
Phil McKinney’s podcast on Finding and Keeping Innovation Champions got me to thinking about a client project I recently completed. The deliverable included a model for assessing an organization’s readiness to adopt technology-enabled collaboration.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Collaboration, Social Networking, Innovation, Social Media
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External Collaboration Needs to be Managed!
On October 16, 2007 Matthew Ingram posted Jay’s lessons on news “crowdsourcing”. Ingram described some of the difficulties reported by Jay Rosen in “Assignment Zero,” an experimental attempt to involve “citizen journalists” in creation of a story for Wired.com.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Collaboration, Social Networking, Innovation, Facebook, Market Research
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