The Mobile Collective

Paul Hobcraft of Agility Innovation Specialists has posted a really useful review of Henry Chesbrough’s Latest book Open Services Innovation on the Innovation Management blog. “Open Services Innovation” The new book asks us to shift our thinking even further away from the R&D labs. The most important aspect of this is the need to rethink … Continue reading »

  There are some very  interesting conclusions in a 2005 survey about the Ideal Collaborative Team conducted by Mitch Ditkoff and Tim Moore of IdeaChampions, Carolyn Allen of Innovation Solution Center and Dave Pollard of Meeting of Minds. It’s probably not too surprising to learn that most people would rather have inexperiencedpeople with a positive attitude … Continue reading »

Muir Gray: What is helping? 25 Feb, 11 | by BMJ Group Raymond Tallis’ excellent Times article on Humanity on 17 February made me reflect on helping, a topic about which I had been forced to rethink by Edgar Schein’s new book on helping. Schein is one of my heroes. His work on organisational culture … Continue reading »

Just came across this wonderful list of ideas from the Six Month MBA that are free for the taking – proving that the value is not in generating ideas (they obviously had a lot of fun in coming up with these ones) but in making them happen. Ideas are a dime a dozen. The money … Continue reading »

Mitch Ditkoff has some awesome quotes about collaboration on his Idea Champions blog 1. “It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” – Charles Darwin 2. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller … Continue reading »