Chris Olson Innovation2Go CIL2012 Conf Preso

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

© 2012 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

mailto:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204830304574133562888635626.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204830304574133562888635626.html





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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.

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/business-brains/10-game-changing-business-innovations-for-2012/20656

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/business-brains/10-game-changing-business-innovations-for-2012/20656


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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

http://blogs.hbr.org/schrage/2010/12/the-top-six-innovation-ideas-o.html

http://blogs.hbr.org/schrage/2010/12/the-top-six-innovation-ideas-o.html


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Innovation Sandbox http://ideascale.com

http://ideascale.com/


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Scouting Innovation Lists

www.fastcompany.com/

http://www.fastcompany.com/




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Fast Company Innovation


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Smart Planet http://www.smartplanet.com

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.

http://www.ted.com/

http://www.ted.com/

http://www.ted.com/

http://www.innosight.com/innovation_resources/article.htm

http://www.innosight.com/innovation_resources/article.htm


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Journal of Library Innovation www.libraryinnovation.org/

Yawn....

http://www.libraryinnovation.org/




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Trends for the Innovation Edge

www.Trendwatching.com Free monthly briefing

http://www.Trendwatching.com/

http://www.trendwatching.com/


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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

http://www.TrendHunter.com/


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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

http://www.jimcarroll.com/2011/12/trending-in-2012-whats-to-come-in-the-year-to-come/%23.T2Z8kMz9NVU

http://www.jimcarroll.com/2011/12/trending-in-2012-whats-to-come-in-the-year-to-come/%23.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

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/01/innovating_the_library_way.html


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http://www.anythinklibraries.org/


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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/

http://www.electricfoxy.com/

http://www.electricfoxy.com/

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

http://www.andrewhargadon.com/writing.htm


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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

http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Obvious-Questions-Game-Changing-Innovation/dp/1401324460

http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Obvious-Questions-Game-Changing-Innovation/dp/1401324460


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