Creative Ideas, Insights, & Trends: Innovation to Go
Session C103: March 21, 1:30 – 2:30 pm
Computers In Libraries 2012
Presented by Chris Olson, MLS, MAS, FSLA
Chris Olson & Associates
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Overview
LIS innovation pipelines
Sources, sandboxes & radar screens
The innovation edge: Trends
Imagination
When all else fails...
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In Search of Innovation www.WSJ.com
Those ideas, however, don’t really come from nowhere. Instead, they are typically at the edge of a company’s radar screen, and sometimes a bit beyond: trends in peripheral industries...
...To be truly innovative, companies sometimes have to change their frames of reference, extend their search space. New ways of thinking and organization can be required as well.
In Search of Innovation WSJ.comWhen companies try to come up with new ideas, they too often look only where they always look. That won’t get them anywhere.JUNE 22, 2009 INNOVATION
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LIS Innovation Pipelines
Customers Competitors
Products Services Delivery Marketplace position (differenciation, competitive superiority)
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Smart Planet/Business Brains (Blog)“10 game-changing business innovations for 2012”
1. Analytics competitor differentiator
2. Watsons IBM
3. Do-it-yourselfers... DIY Economy
4. Cloud
5. Crowdsourcers
6. Smartphones
7. 3D printers... desktop manufacturing .mass production
8. Games
9. Talent (not enough of it)... human capital
10.Social responsibility
10 game-changing business innovations for 2012By Joe McKendrick | December 20, 2011.
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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011
Contestification Open up to innovators
Keep Touching Me and I'll Screen!
That's Quite A Coup, Onward Group! eCoupons
From Farmville to Pharmville: We Got Game in Business A Beautifully Designed Lobby
WWWabs (IdeaScale)
HBR Blog NetworkMICHAEL SCHRAGE, December 16, 2010
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Scouting Innovation Lists
www.fastcompany.com/
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Fast Company Innovation
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Smart Planet http://www.smartplanet.com
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Other Radar Screens
TED www.ted.com/ Ideas worth Spreading 1984 Technology, Entertainment, Design
Innosight http://www.innosight.com/innovation_resources/articl
e.htm Strategy & Innovation articles Collaborative innovation. Joining forces.
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Journal of Library Innovation www.libraryinnovation.org/
Yawn....
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Trends for the Innovation Edge
www.Trendwatching.com Free monthly briefing
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Trends for the Innovation Edge
www.TrendHunter.com
TrendReport sample ( see my Slideshare) CROWDSOURCED-- ideas from 95,876 trend
spotters in 190 countries
Get past the snakeoil
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Wait...!
Is innovation an “innovation opportunity” for LIS?
There’s a “big global ‘idea machine’ that is revolutionizing opportunities for innovative thinking.”
http://www.jimcarroll.com/2011/12/trending-in-2012-whats-to-come-in-the-year-to-come/#.T2Z8kMz9NVU
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“ Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Is this the next LIS service frontier?
... For while knowledge defines all we currentlyknow and understand, imagination points to allwe might yet discover and create.” Albert Einstein
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Anythink Libraries, Colorado www.anythinklibraries.org/
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Anythink Libraries, Colorado
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When All Else Fails ... Google
2012....Google alerts select your industry pick other industries
Safe... Information delivery services: e-news, e-publishers, technology, education
Out there... food & beverage, lodging, car rentals, entertainment, auto, fashion... fabric
2012 Innovations in... fabric smart fabric– wearable electronic fabric (eFabric)
http://www.electricfoxy.com/ Social networking garment. Ping
http://www.electricfoxy.com/projects/ping/
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Classic Read
How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies InnovateHarvard Business School Press, 2003.
”...Can Innovation really be routine?" This book not only answers that question but actually gets into the details of "How”...
... creating Innovation factories a subject he first wrote about in a Harvard Business Review article - Building an Innovation Factory.
http://www.andrewhargadon.com/writing.html
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Question Your Assumptions
Ask questions that challenge. Evaluation what you do, how you do it, and who you do it for.
What situation do you know will never happen to your library?
What situation is so outside the realm of possibility that there is no need to prepare for it on any level?
What would be the effect on your business if it did happen?
How would you respond and what would you do?
Beyond the Obvious: Killer Questions That Spark Game-Changing Innovation.Phil McKinney. Hyperion. February 7, 2012
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Fast Company Innovation
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Fast Company Innovation