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Colleagues,

I've accepted chairmanship of The Colorado Innovation Summit - lots of work
for not much pay.

When I started, I thought I knew what "innovation" is. Now I've seen the
word used in many different ways.

I would appreciate your insights.
What is innovation?
What characterizes an innovator?
What is innovation management?

Thank you.

Gary

----------------------------
Change will never, ever again
be as slow as it is today.

Gary Lundquist - The Accelerator
303-840-9929 www.market-engineering.com
garyl@market-engineering.com

The science of
making and keeping satisfied customers,
at a profit, over time,
in a competitive environment.

See Tushmann and Oreilly's "Winning Through Innovation"

Steve


Steve Nyland
Complexity artist...simplifying complexity, building higher performance,
creating positive futures



-----Original Message-----
From: Management Education and Development Discussion
[mailto:MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU] On Behalf Of Gary Lundquist
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 7:45 AM
To: MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
Subject: Definition of Innovation


Colleagues,

I've accepted chairmanship of The Colorado Innovation Summit - lots of
work for not much pay.

When I started, I thought I knew what "innovation" is. Now I've seen
the word used in many different ways.

I would appreciate your insights.
What is innovation?
What characterizes an innovator?
What is innovation management?

Thank you.

Gary

----------------------------
Change will never, ever again
be as slow as it is today.

Gary Lundquist - The Accelerator
303-840-9929 www.market-engineering.com
garyl@market-engineering.com

The science of
making and keeping satisfied customers,
at a profit, over time,
in a competitive environment.

Read Hank Chesbrough's new book Open Innovation--also his article in current
MIT Sloan Review

Best of luck in your new assignment-tough subject.

Chuck Morrissey
Pepperdine

Colleagues,

A couple of you have made immediate responses: Read (a particular) book.

I'm afraid I don't have the time to read the books. It's good to make a
list, but a list of books isn't immediately helpful.

Gary

----------------------------
Change will never, ever again
be as slow as it is today.

Gary Lundquist - The Accelerator
303-840-9929 www.market-engineering.com
garyl@market-engineering.com

The science of
making and keeping satisfied customers,
at a profit, over time,
in a competitive environment.

Ah, the beauty of the quick fix and not having to read anything...

-----Original Message-----
From: Management Education and Development Discussion
[mailto:MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU]On Behalf Of Gary Lundquist
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 10:17 AM
To: MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
Subject: Re: Definition of Innovation


Colleagues,

A couple of you have made immediate responses: Read (a particular) book.

I'm afraid I don't have the time to read the books. It's good to make a
list, but a list of books isn't immediately helpful.

Gary

----------------------------
Change will never, ever again
be as slow as it is today.

Gary Lundquist - The Accelerator
303-840-9929 www.market-engineering.com
garyl@market-engineering.com

The science of
making and keeping satisfied customers,
at a profit, over time,
in a competitive environment.

It's not necessarily a quick fix to want to know what your colleagues think the definition is!
Edryce

Larry Pate <larry@pate.org> wrote:Ah, the beauty of the quick fix and not having to read anything...

-----Original Message-----
From: Management Education and Development Discussion
[mailto:MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU]On Behalf Of Gary Lundquist
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 10:17 AM
To: MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
Subject: Re: Definition of Innovation


Colleagues,

A couple of you have made immediate responses: Read (a particular) book.

I'm afraid I don't have the time to read the books. It's good to make a
list, but a list of books isn't immediately helpful.

Gary

----------------------------
Change will never, ever again
be as slow as it is today.

Gary Lundquist - The Accelerator
303-840-9929 www.market-engineering.com
garyl@market-engineering.com

The science of
making and keeping satisfied customers,
at a profit, over time,
in a competitive environment.

---------------------------------
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Sorry you don't have time to read these books we are recommending--just hope
the people you are dealing with haven't reaqd them and all will be fine.

Why should someone on this list "have" to read books? Don't you have a definition in your mind? Do you get everything from books? Edryce

Charles Morrissey <CMorrissey@aol.com> wrote:Sorry you don't have time to read these books we are recommending--just hope
the people you are dealing with haven't reaqd them and all will be fine.

---------------------------------
Do you Yahoo!?
The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo.

Just for fun (final days of writing Chapter 5 - don't ask me to look up
anything not specifically in my calcs)

How do you differentiate evolution and innovation?

I like the entymology of words ... I think they speak volumes ... no pun
intended.

Innovation has at its root the concept of "going nova"
Maybe this is why it is sometimes depicted as a light bulb going on over a
character's head. "a star that suddenly increases its light output
tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or
years"

Isn't this just the thing with innovations.... a flash of the day that fades
into obscurity. Some having bcome just part of the norm and others
fizzling out.

Have some fun.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Lundquist" <garyl@market-engineering.com>
To: <MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 7:45 AM
Subject: Definition of Innovation


> Colleagues,
>
> I've accepted chairmanship of The Colorado Innovation Summit - lots of
work
> for not much pay.
>
> When I started, I thought I knew what "innovation" is. Now I've seen the
> word used in many different ways.
>
> I would appreciate your insights.
> What is innovation?
> What characterizes an innovator?
> What is innovation management?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Gary
>
> ----------------------------
> Change will never, ever again
> be as slow as it is today.
>
> Gary Lundquist - The Accelerator
> 303-840-9929 www.market-engineering.com
> garyl@market-engineering.com
>
> The science of
> making and keeping satisfied customers,
> at a profit, over time,
> in a competitive environment.
>

I can't separate the two. There's a theory of evolution that states that
evolution is not an accumulation of small, positive changes. What happens
is that there is confluence of adaptations that leads one species to explode
to fill a niche.

To me that's very similar to innovation. Innovation is constantly occurring
but until there's a confluence of need and capabilities, innovative concepts
die and wait like seeds in the ground for the right circumstances to occur.

Christie Mason

----- Original Message -----
From: "Conna Condon" <gandolf@cyberverse.com>
How do you differentiate evolution and innovation?

See the work of Everett M. Rogers for a comprehensive coverage of
innovation and its diffusion.

Mike Chumer

From: Nick Heard [mailto:n.heard@btopenworld.com]

Gary,

Don't ask me for a formal definition of innovation although one does seem to
be emerging over here that has much more to do with continuous improvement
than with bright ideas (which is what I always thought it was). What's the
summit about anyway - if it has any relation to small firms I'd love to take
part in any dialogue.

As for a stab at a def off the top of my head - from a business perspective
I'd go for 'preparedness to evolve your organisational structure, processes
and relationships toward emerging favourable conditions in the marketplace'

Looks a bit dull though really - what do you think?


Nick Heard

-----Original Message-----
From: Management Education and Development Discussion
[mailto:MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU]On Behalf Of Gary Lundquist
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 03:45
To: MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
Subject: Definition of Innovation

Colleagues,

I've accepted chairmanship of The Colorado Innovation Summit - lots of work
for not much pay.

When I started, I thought I knew what "innovation" is. Now I've seen the
word used in many different ways.

I would appreciate your insights.
What is innovation?
What characterizes an innovator?
What is innovation management?

Thank you.

Gary

----------------------------
Change will never, ever again
be as slow as it is today.

Gary Lundquist - The Accelerator
303-840-9929 www.market-engineering.com
garyl@market-engineering.com

The science of
making and keeping satisfied customers,
at a profit, over time,
in a competitive environment.

Hello Gary

Leaving academic definitions to one side and trying to be innovative with
solutions...

On July 1-2 around 90 people will gather to explore aspects of business
innovation in the Knowledge Economy from 6 countries, at a UK venue(Warwick
on 1st July; Stratford-on-Avon on 2nd July).

If it would help (and assuming it's too far for you to come) I can

- pose your question for participants on the day as a "post-it" activity
(this includes academics, companies, great and good types) to gain a range
of ideas

- offer a video spot to you (I have been seduced by the idea that the
technology really will work this time, both sound and vision, and even
perhaps simultaneously)

- or can offer you a post-event discussion group to explore your question

best wishes

Lynn Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Wankel
To: MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
Sent: 28/04/03 13:08
Subject: Re: Definition of Innovation

From: Nick Heard [mailto:n.heard@btopenworld.com]

Gary,

Don't ask me for a formal definition of innovation although one does
seem to
be emerging over here that has much more to do with continuous
improvement
than with bright ideas (which is what I always thought it was). What's
the
summit about anyway - if it has any relation to small firms I'd love to
take
part in any dialogue.

As for a stab at a def off the top of my head - from a business
perspective
I'd go for 'preparedness to evolve your organisational structure,
processes
and relationships toward emerging favourable conditions in the
marketplace'

Looks a bit dull though really - what do you think?


Nick Heard

-----Original Message-----
From: Management Education and Development Discussion
[mailto:MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU]On Behalf Of Gary Lundquist
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 03:45
To: MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
Subject: Definition of Innovation

Colleagues,

I've accepted chairmanship of The Colorado Innovation Summit - lots of
work
for not much pay.

When I started, I thought I knew what "innovation" is. Now I've seen
the
word used in many different ways.

I would appreciate your insights.
What is innovation?
What characterizes an innovator?
What is innovation management?

Thank you.

Gary

----------------------------
Change will never, ever again
be as slow as it is today.

Gary Lundquist - The Accelerator
303-840-9929 www.market-engineering.com
garyl@market-engineering.com

The science of
making and keeping satisfied customers,
at a profit, over time,
in a competitive environment.