Archive for the ‘Bottom Up Innovation Tools’ Category

Are Yammer or CubeTree key for Bottom-up Innovation ?

In the last months we’ve seen an explosion of Yammer or CubeTree usage. Looking at how employees are leveraging these tools to spread knowledge and exchange ideas, one can bet that these services are a very good infrastructure for tapping into collective intelligence. Still looking for real cases where they boosted innovation, but I bet [...]

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Capturing serendipity

“a serendipitous discovery is one made by fortunate accident in the presence of sagacity”
Alan G. Robinson, Sam Stern
in Corporate Creativity: How Innovation and Improvement Actually Happen
Capturing ideas where they occur is one of the key for a successfull bottom-up innovation process.  Nowadays, work of many workers  is full of very different activities: Go to meetings, produce [...]

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