BROKEN BULBS: Innovation: Sharing presentations online

Monday, November 13

Sharing presentations online

Talk about niching the niche! We now have a site similar to YouTube, but it's for presentations. I came across Slideshare today and I thought I'd make a short presentation and upload it to their site! We'll see how it goes.

UPDATE: If this isn't uploading fast enough, you can click HERE. This should take you to the site.

Hope you like it!

Labels: innovation

5 Comments:

Simon E said...: I thought your presentation was very good. Great to see some clear thinking regarding innovation. - annecdote: One of my lecturers during my Master's course, (Master of Science & Technology Innovation)once asked the class: "Who thinks its possible to have an innovative thought?"... Many put their hands up, (including me) it seemed reasonable... But No. He insisted that to be an "innovation" it had to actually have a commercial manifestation in the real world. A thought could not be innovative, because it had not yet caused an 'innovation'. - This was a very useful point for me in my understanding of 'innovation', and I see the same logic reflected in your presentation.; 5:49 PM
JBC said...: pretty cool. How do you add the slideshow into blogger?

Thanks; 12:29 PM
Gordon Graham said...: All you have to do is go to this Web site: http://www.slideshare.net and upload your presentation. Then you just copy the code and CTRL + C it in your blog. Hope it works for you jbc!

PS. Thanks for the kind comments Simon! That course you did in Australia sounds awesome! What did you cover in it?; 4:21 PM
Volney Faustini said...: Great presentation - it's funny how the world moves around (or the word, should we say). Greetings from Brazil.

I've been focusing on innovation for some years and this is the best 'wrap-up' I've seen so far.

Your blog is already on my favorites and I'll be keeping track through bloglines.

Hope we can share additional thoughts.; 5:38 AM
Anonymous said...: Greetings from Holland! Great intro into inno!; 3:48 AM

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WHAT IS INNOVATION?

Innovation is defined here as:

"The profitable implementation
of ideas." - Broken Bulbs (2005)

This definition includes three core elements of innovation: ideas; implementation; and profit. If you dislike the term "profit," you can replace it with "social or economic value." So: "The implementation of ideas that create social or economic value." Broken Bulb's definition draws from these authoritative sources:

"Implementing new ideas that create value." - Innovation Network, U.S.A.

"The intersection of invention and insight, leading to the creation of social and economic value."
- U.S. National Innovation Initiative (2004)

"The development of new ideas and their economic application as new products or processes."
- U.K Dept. Trade and Industry

INNOVATION: UNDER THE BONNET (HOOD)

When thinking about innovation, it's worth keeping the following points in mind:

- innovation is a multi-dimensional construct
- an innovation can be described by type (process, product, service, business model, value, market, brand, channel, price etc.)
- and degree (incremental, semi-radical, radical, transformational etc.)
- an innovation can be described as a user innovation (the developer benefits by using it) or
- a manufacturer innovation (the developer benefits by selling it)
- a definition will emphasize a particular unit of analysis (e.g. task, project, individual, group, SBU, firm, region, or nation)
- a definition can, therefore, take a broad or narrow perspective
- a definition can take a supply- or demand-side view
- viewing innovation as either product or process, while useful, is overly simplistic
- a sustaining innovation can be radical or incremental
- a disruptive innovation, by contrast, emphasizes a dimension of a product that incumbent firms' most profitable customers don't especially value.
- the same author may use a number of different definitions, depending on which dimension is being discussed.
- innovation can also be viewed as attitude: "There must be a better way."

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: Name: Gordon Graham; Location: Connecticut, United States

My passion and interest is in innovation and brands in international business. Recently completed post-graduate research into the innovation strategies of Taiwanese firms active in multiple country-markets as part of an MSc (distinction) in International Marketing. Originally from Scotland. I recently moved to the United States (CT) and would love to work in a corporate university or traditional university setting. Thanks!

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Innovation Quotes:

"Though the outcomes of successful innovations appear random, the processes that result in their success often are not."
- Clayton Christensen (2003)

"He who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new."
- Niccolo Machiaveli, The Prince

"The true pacemakers of socialism were not the intellectuals or agitators who preached it, but the Vanderbilts, Carnegies and Rockefellers."
- Joseph Schumpeter (1942, p. 134)

"Dear President Jackson,
The canal system in this country is being threatened by a new form of transportation known as "railroads" . . . If the canal boats are supplanted by railroads, boat builders would suffer, and towline, whip, and harness makers would be left destitute . . . God never intended that people should travel at such breakneck speed."
Sincerely,
Martin Van Buren
Governor, State of New York, 1829

"Some good experiences will always be scarce."
- Matt Mason, 2008

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