Since it’s been a while this is longer than normal but hopefully there’s something useful here.
Innovation leadership and culture: Observations from Johnson & Johnson
Stefan Lindegaard and Jeff Murphy executive director at Johnson & Johnson on what business leaders who are seeking to improve their organization’s innovation capability and capacity should do.
Top 50 Important Tools – Tools Everyone Should Own – Popular Mechanics
A useful guide to all of the DIY equipment you should own but don’t
Filled with questions to aid creativity.
Rush to outsource all software development can lead to productivity drop
Compass Management Consulting warns that corporates rushing to outsource their software development to make short term savings risk significant long-term losses in productivity.
SCAMPER – a powerful product innovation tool
A productive and versatile technique for examining a product or service from differing angles and for generating ideas
What is Love? A True Animal Love Story
Read it and try not to cry
An innocuous typo I saw today got me thinking: what if we used a word called startegy instead of strategy?
Paul Graham, on How to Make New Things
Here it is: I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.
Use a Japanese Haiku for a different view
Japanese Haiku error messages
The Lefferts law of management
The Lefferts law of management: It is your fault