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Report 103 Archive
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009 issue
Guest Writers; The Curse of the First-Mover: When Incremental Innovation Leads to Radical Change; Innovation Process Management: It's Not Just About Ideas; The Innovation Pie and How to Bake ItTuesday, 02 June 2009 issue
When the Best Is not the Best; Innovation Accidents Are not Entirely Accidental; Getting Over Resistance to ChangeTuesday, 19 May 2009 issue
Prospect Theory, Risk and Innovation; Team Building and Goals; Decline of the Billable Hour; Obituary: Dr Arthur VanGundyTuesday, 05 May 2009 issue
Innovation: Back to the Basics; Breakthrough Innovation Needs Breakthrough Follow Up; Promoting Creativity in Your FirmTuesday, 21 April 2009 issue
Asking Questions; the Science Behind the Aha Moment; Crowdsourcing Needs Structure; Jenni Innovation Process Management; Innovation Consultants WantedTuesday, 07 April 2009 issue
A Dozen Ingredients for a Culture of Innovation; Big Payout for Top Management of Bad Firms; Jenni Innovation Process Management Web ApplicationTuesday, 17 March 2009 issue
Innovation Process Management; Innovation Opportunities and Threats in Mergers; The Innovation Process Management Web Application: JenniTuesday, 03 March 2009 issue
Purpose Driven Innovation; Wots in SWOT?; Your Daily Creative Exercise; Innovation Workshop in BournemouthTuesday, 17 February 2009 issue
Value Added Innovation; 10 Lessons on Innovation Teams from The Economist; The Brussels (or Anywhere) Imagination Club; Free Idea Management Versus Paid Idea ManagementTuesday, 03 February 2009 issue
Downsizing Workforce Downsizes Innovation; Risk Reduction in Innovation; Get Innovative with Your Value Proposition!Tuesday, 20 January 2009 issue
What Kind of Ideas; Gossip Can Help Your Firm Innovate Better; Obama's Suggestion BoxTuesday, 16 December 2008 issue
Innovation Threats in 2009; Innovation Software Doesn't Innovate by Itself; Prime Divisors of a Problem; Jeffrey One of Top 10 Innovation ThinkersTuesday, 18 November 2008 issue
Innovation Strategies for a Recession; Ideas Can Have Consequences; Jenni Idea ManagementTuesday, 04 November 2008 issue
Why You Absolutely Must Step Up Product Innovation; Getting Top Management to Buy into Innovation; Warning: Managers' Egos May Be Detrimental to Innovative HealthTuesday, 21 October 2008 issue
Cutting Your Customers' Costs; Get Passionate at Work; Nostalgia and Innovation Don't MixTuesday, 07 October 2008 issue
The ABCs of Innovation; Controlling a Brainstorming Event; Jenni Idea ManagementTuesday, 16 September 2008 issue
Problems and Challenges; Cleaning up Quick and Dirty Idea Reviews; Innovation = Change; Conference Announcement; Jenni Idea ManagementTuesday, 02 September 2008 issue
Brainstorming for Stories; Pre-Challenge Research; Taking a Non-Linear View on the Environment; Innovate Better with Jenni Idea ManagementTuesday, 19 August 2008 issue
Innovation Feeds on Challenges; Guest Writer; National Innovation Challenge to Inspire Australian Businesses; Innovate Better with Jenni Idea ManagementTuesday, 15 July 2008 issue
Reductive Innovation: Less Is More, More or Less; Trust and Innovation; Sharing Implementation NewsTuesday, 01 July 2008 issue
Eight Key Ingredients for Corporate Innovation; Bill Gates: the Innovative Non-Innovator; Jenni in the NewsTuesday, 17 June 2008 issue
Getting Emotional about Innovation; Good Idea for Promoting Innovation: a Lottery; Stress and CreativityTuesday, 03 June 2008 issue
Dealing with Disruptive Innovation; Innovation for Business Survival; Innovate and Save the PlanetTuesday, 20 May 2008 issue
Innovation is not Democratic; Ten Characteristics of an Innovative Leader; Innovation ReportingTuesday, 06 May 2008 issue
Evaluating Ideas; Using Idea Management for New Product Development; Electric Cars and ParadigmsTuesday, 15 April 2008 issue
The Three Cs; Follow up on Visual Brainstorming; the Myth of the Lone InventorTuesday, 01 April 2008 issue
Innovation May Be Detrimental to Business; Idea Management Primer; Replace Challenges with Calls to Action; Creative Solutions for Consumer NeedsTuesday, 18 March 2008 issue
Cost Cutting Innovation; Jenni Challenge; Fine Tune Your RAS; Five Innovative Idea Types;Tuesday, 04 March 2008 issue
10 Rules for Creative Teams; Innovation Trains; Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Basics; Jenni Upgrade; The Face of Johann Sebastian BachTuesday, 19 February 2008 issue
Guest Writer; Radical and Disruptive Innovation: There Is a Difference; Jenni 4.0 Takes Idea Management to the Next Generation; Decide; Get Smarter and Meet JenniTuesday, 05 February 2008 issue
Innovation and Economic Slow-Down; Guest Writer; Organisational Creativity Through Space Design; Rewarding Teams; Event: Creativity and Innovation Management ConferenceTuesday, 15 January 2008 issue
Putting Your Innovation Initiative in Order; Your Employees Thought Up Your Competitors' Innovations First; The Web, a Productivity Killer or an Inspiration; Advertising on jpb.comTuesday, 18 December 2007 issue
Implementation Rates in Idea Management; Guest Author; Innovation - the International Differentiator; Jenni Case Study: South East Water; Innovation Consultants WantedTuesday, 04 December 2007 issue
Run Your Company Like an R&D Unit; A Jenni Case Study; Mixed Sex Teams Innovate Better; Innovation and Jenni in the Middle EastTuesday, 20 November 2007 issue
Idea Management Is for Winners; Sustainable Idea Management by Ideas Campaign; Imagination ClubTuesday, 06 November 2007 issue
Where's the Money?; Strategic Planning Demystified with the Mindmap; Structuring Creativity and Innovation; Jenni in Denmark; Imagination ClubTuesday, 16 October 2007 issue
Soliciting ideas from the public; Jenni on Facebook; When to Kill an Idea; Imagination Club On-LineTuesday, 02 October 2007 issue
Rewarding Innovation; Prioritising Innovation; Evaluation Approach: Idea Trials; Innovative LinksTuesday, 18 September 2007 issue
Confidently Creative; Guest Writer; Applying Your Creativity to Writing a Non-Fiction Book; Visual BrainstormingTuesday, 04 September 2007 issue
Passive versus Active Creativity; Guest Writer; Mistakes to Avoid with Mind Mapping Software; Book Review: Getting to InnovationTuesday, 21 August 2007 issue
TRIZ—Getting Rid of Our Egos and Using Other Peoples’ Brains; Risk Aversion is Avoidable; Innovation and Frames of Reference; Partner's NewsletterTuesday, 07 August 2007 issue
Guest Writers; Creative Problem Solving; The Innovation Process and Quality Tools; Being Innovative in a Big Company; No Hidden Jenni Advertisements in this Issue of Report 103; Facebook and CommunicationTuesday, 17 July 2007 issue
Guest Writers; Nobel Thinking Enhances Innovation; Easier Said than Done; Innovative and Creative EventsTuesday, 03 July 2007 issue
Slash Your Bureaucracy; Book Review: Group Genius; Summer Time Is Experiment Time; Imagination ClubTuesday, 19 June 2007 issue
Innovation vs. the Process of Innovation; Guest Writers; Brainstorming Guidelines; The Way We Handle ideas Is Critical; Jenni Leasing; Imagination ClubTuesday, 05 June 2007 issue
Framework Innovation and Detail Innovation; What Is Closed Innovaton?; Activate Your Brainstorming Sessions; A Note on my SpellingTuesday, 15 May 2007 issue
Creative Flow in a Cognitive System; Concept Auctions: Decision Support for the Front End; In the News; Where Innovation is LackingTuesday, 01 May 2007 issue
Creative Negotiation; Creativity in Your Spare Time; Corporate Innovation Communicaiton; Wrong PredictionsMonday, 02 April 2007 issue
Business Case Management Versus Idea Management; Motivting Participants to Participate; NASA Closes Down Idea Lab; Different People - the Same IdeasTuesday, 20 March 2007 issue
Ego: the Subversive Idea Killer; Back to the Conceptual Drawing Board; Jenni in Australia; Outsourcing Is just the First Step in AutomationTuesday, 06 March 2007 issue
The Creative Idea Implementation Plan, Mobile Jenni, Brainstorm the BarriersTuesday, 20 February 2007 issue
Innovation: the Simple Bit and the Difficult Bit; The First Rule of Innovation; Public Idea Management; The Innovation BacklashTuesday, 06 February 2007 issue
10 Innovative Ways to Use Idea Management; Introduction to Integrative Thinking; InnoCentive, a Marketplace for Scientific Ideas; India and China Wise up to Innovation; Google Patent SearchTuesday, 16 January 2007 issue
Imagination, Creativity, Ideas and Innovation; Don't Panic, Ask the Right Question; Optimism, an Essential Ingredient to Innovation; Jenni Idea Management UpgradeTuesday, 02 January 2007 issue
Happy New Year; Is Innovation Right for Your Firm?; Lifetime of an Idea; Jenni Idea Management 3.0 UpgradeTuesday, 19 December 2006 issue
Enthusiastic Leadership; Innovation Resolutions for 2007; Applied Creativity: Building (Small) Business; Innovation Trends for 2007Tuesday, 05 December 2006 issue
Glorious Inefficiency; Baumgartner Weirdness Scale; Innovation Humour; Lessons not Learned in Innovation; News from our PartnersTuesday, 21 November 2006 issue
12 Ways to Motivate Others to Be More Creative; Jenni ExperienceTuesday, 07 November 2006 issue
One Innovation Wonders - Not Enough!; Watch Out for Know-It-Alls; Parents Teach Problem Development, Not Solving; Household Innovation; Interesting ArticlesTuesday, 17 October 2006 issue
DIY Patent Protection; Basic Creativity: Generate Lots and Lots of Ideas; Workshop: the Way of the Innovative Manager; 10 Seriously Cool WorksplacesTuesday, 03 October 2006 issue
Focus on Questions; Question, Question, Question; Proposing Ideas as Questions; In What Ways Might We...?; Challenging Children with Questions; Workshop: the Way of the Innovative ManagerTuesday, 19 September 2006 issue
Creativity, the Brain & You; The Creative Brain of the Creative Organisation; Open versus Closed Innovation; Sylvia Web BrainStormer Upgrade; Inside Lenovo's Design QuestTuesday, 05 September 2006 issue
Too Many Parameters Needed; Duh Ideas; Failure Stories; On-Line Workshop "BrainStorming Basics"; Live Mini Workshop: "UnRepress Your Creativity"Tuesday, 15 August 2006 issue
Idea Stakeholders; Partnering for Innovation; Introducing a bit of ChaosTuesday, 01 August 2006 issue
Suggestion Scheme Suicide: Two Stories; The PC's 25th Birthday; Scared to Speak their MindsTuesday, 18 July 2006 issue
Corporate Imagination Exercises; When You Need to Be Creative Fast; Interesting and Inspiring; Dangers of Walking for Ideas; How Well Does Your Firm Innovate?Tuesday, 04 July 2006 issue
Breaking the Breakable Rules; Organisational Innovation in the Family; New in Jenni; Workshop 103Tuesday, 20 June 2006 issue
Continuous Innovation Challenges; Take an Ideas Tour of Your Workplace; Sending Managers Overseas; Your Innovation MentorTuesday, 06 June 2006 issue
If-Then Milestones: an Alternative to Risk Reduction; A Creative Approach to Change Management; Layered Ideas Campaigns; Report 103 WorkshopsTuesday, 16 May 2006 issue
Are Your Ideas Audacious Enough?; Upstart Start-Ups; Ideas Are Fragile; Brainstorming Threats to find OpportunitiesTuesday, 02 May 2006 issue
10 Creative Myths; Teaching Children to Respect Creative Children; Prototyping in the World of Computer Games; Rebel at Ford Motor CompanyTuesday, 18 April 2006 issue
Selling ideas up the corporate ladder; Getting the Balance Right in Your Innovation Process; Springtime Is Idea TimeTuesday, 04 April 2006 issue
Your Innovation Manifesto; ISWOT Analysis; Creative MemoryTuesday, 21 March 2006 issue
Creative Destruction; Innovating for Whom?; Some 65% of CEOs Plan to Radically Change their Companies; P & G's New Innovation ModelTuesday, 07 March 2006 issue
Seven Shorties; Silly Rules; It's Quantity, not Quality; Jenni Upgrade; Creativity - Its Place in Education; Idea Rate Work; Kids, Building Blocks & the Great Innovation Lie; New Partner; Uncreative Clichés; Whirlpool and InnovationTuesday, 21 February 2006 issue
Spontaneous Versus Solution Oriented Creativity; You Cannot Micromanage Innovation; New Articles at jpb.com; Knowledge Management and the Aging Workforce; Want to Make a Complicated Decision? Just Stop ThinkingTuesday, 07 February 2006 issue
A Buddhist Approach to Innovation; Innovative Opportunism; An Apple a Day Keeps the Competion at Bay; Thinking OutloudTuesday, 17 January 2006 issue
Getting People Excited about Creativity; There's No Such Thing as a Bad Idea; New at jpb.com; Suggestion Box Humour; Legislating Diverse Boards; Creative Management In-House Training; Most Inventive CompaniesTuesday, 03 January 2006 issue
Happy Innovative 2006; Discovering Operational Innovation Opportunities; Transparent and Translucent Rewards for InnovationTuesday, 20 December 2005 issue
Holiday issue; The Adventure of Brainstorm Man and the Boring Pushchairs; Happy Christmas and a very New YearTuesday, 06 December 2005 issue
The great innovation lie; Time to be creative; Time pressure and creativityTuesday, 22 November 2005 issue
Keep innovation simple, sweetheart; Fire up the corporate imagination; jpb.com info: picturing your ideas; jpb.com info: gaining knowledge by asking questions; Review of the main principles of the creative processTuesday, 01 November 2005 issue
innovation initiatives are not improving new product success rates; Corporate innovation machine; See Jeffrey talk about creativity; InformationWeek's 500 most innovative users of technologyTuesday, 18 October 2005 issue
The care and framing of strategic innovation challenges; Don't squelch; Everyone is creativeTuesday, 04 October 2005 issue
Guest writers; Organisational creativity - the top ten enablers; Xandra: Question based knowledge managementTuesday, 20 September 2005 issue
Experimentation; Too many evaluators spoil the idea; Report 105; The Imagination ClubTuesday, 06 September 2005 issue
Mixing and matching teams for creativity; Total open collaboration in idea management; Everyone wants to work for a more innovative company; Report 105; Imagination ClubTuesday, 16 August 2005 issue
Speed of ideas vs. speed of approval; The notebook exercise; Creativity resource; Free ideas campaign; Not impressed with mind mapping; New newsletter: Report 105Tuesday, 02 August 2005 issue
Innovation planning; August is a good time to be creative in Europe; Good article on operational innovation; imagination clubTuesday, 19 July 2005 issue
Creative team leadership; A great idea testing tool; Better Report 103 archives; Imagination club; Stress: good for creativity, bad for judgementTuesday, 05 July 2005 issue
Provocateurs; Quotes; Entering a dark age of innovation; Need inspiration - look at art; Thought showers; New sales partner in the UK; Imagination club is now on-lineTuesday, 21 June 2005 issue
Creative investment - spreading the creativity; Creative investments - some basic calculations; Jenni version 2.1 out nowTuesday, 07 June 2005 issue
Protectionism is an excuse not to innovate; Airlines need to innovate; Bringing innovation in through the back door; Innovation safe havens; CIWI; The innovative internTuesday, 17 May 2005 issue
Positive motivation vs. negative motivation; Supertrade Knowledge Exchange; Alternative uses of your products; Dennis Mykols - new US sales partner; Knowledge mapsTuesday, 03 May 2005 issue
Cultural diversity - cultural innovation; Creativity cannot break laws - usually; Imagination club; The problem with patternsTuesday, 19 April 2005 issue
Customer relationship procognition; CIWI; Call centres are also idea centres; 21 April: creativity and innovation day; Another EU framework programmeTuesday, 12 April 2005 issue
The innovation battle planTuesday, 05 April 2005 issue
Don't settle for first; Partnerships and innovation synergies; Campaign based idea managementTuesday, 15 March 2005 issue
10 crazy things to do with your company this week; Jenni idea management virtual software version 2.0 released; Concept -> prototype -> productionTuesday, 01 March 2005 issue
Emotional management in the workplace; Carlos Ghosn keen on cross-functional creative teams; Go on - be a contrarian; Outsourcing innovationTuesday, 15 February 2005 issue
Creative problem interpretation; Cumulative creativity; Innovate Now - thenTuesday, 01 February 2005 issue
Don't multitask - multithink; Free ideas campaigns virtual software; The fundamental change game; Innovation meeting in Belgium?Tuesday, 18 January 2005 issue
Preserving youthful enthusiasm; Avoiding "failures of imagination"; Breaking problems down into components; The most innovative company; The least innovative companyTuesday, 04 January 2005 issue
Don't be limited by limitations; Got skunkworks? Keeping the ideas flowing; Jenni Ideas CampaignTuesday, 21 December 2004 issue
Good brainstorming and bad brainstorming; Idea vaults; End of year special; New year's innovation; Press releaseTuesday, 14 December 2004 issue
Brainstorming for disasters; Chinese companies branding and innovation; Feelings; jpb.com newsTuesday, 07 December 2004 issue
Working with ideas that won't work; We don't do things that way here; Choosing business partnersTuesday, 30 November 2004 issue
When creativity goes stale; Slow creativity; Sweden and Finland are EU's leading innovatorsTuesday, 23 November 2004 issue
Imagination; Rejecting ideas; Community idea managementTuesday, 16 November 2004 issue
Selling raw ideas; Acting in intuition will come back into fashion; The end of textile quotas - the dawn of textile innovation?Tuesday, 09 November 2004 issue
The slander of an honourable word; Rewarding ideas; High risk ideas budget; What is virtual software anyway?Tuesday, 02 November 2004 issue
KnowledgeStorming; Metaphorical creative concept modelling; Motivating innovaiton over the long term; Nifty web resourcesTuesday, 19 October 2004 issue
Ain't no such thing as free innovation; Growth and feedback; Humour and creativity; Nifty web resourceTuesday, 12 October 2004 issue
Twist the issue; Open office spaces - closed minds; Internal idea marketplace; Nifty web resource; Report 103 cranial exerciseTuesday, 05 October 2004 issue
Brainstorm retreats; Why you need idea management; Anti-inspirational activitiesTuesday, 28 September 2004 issue
Disruptors; The importance of notebooks; Open and closed creative exercisesTuesday, 21 September 2004 issue
Other people's shoes; Role playing; Five reasons to become innovativeTuesday, 14 September 2004 issue
It's all about the benefits; Exercising the mind; New at jpb.com: step by step report managing brainstorming sessionsTuesday, 07 September 2004 issue
Creativity and school; What's wrong with innovative suppliers?; Need inspiration? Get away from that desk!Tuesday, 31 August 2004 issue
Innovation strategy goals; Innovation reporting; The creative prisoner;Tuesday, 24 August 2004 issue
Open versus closed idea management; Internal innovation networks; USP - the single most important innovation for small to medium firms;Tuesday, 17 August 2004 issue
Idea implementation tracking; Innovation eras; Groups think more innovatively than individuals; Asian executives most value innovationTuesday, 10 August 2004 issue
Idea -> evaluation -> implementation -> idea cycle; How not to promote an innovative new product; The importance of mistakesTuesday, 03 August 2004 issue
When creativity goes bad; Maintaining imagination; talk about itTuesday, 27 July 2004 issue
Reductive innovation; Failure of imagination; Know the rules before you break them; News from jpb.com; Talk about itTuesday, 20 July 2004 issue
Evaluating ideas; Fear of failure; The downside of creativity; European innovation policy portal; Why innovations sit on the shelf; talk about itTuesday, 13 July 2004 issue
Destroy your assumptions; Talk about it; Dangerous committees; Sylvia web brainstorming updateTuesday, 06 July 2004 issue
The universe of your mind; Innovation needed in Thailand; Got something to say?; Plagarising creativityTuesday, 29 June 2004 issue
The creative enthusiast; the necessity of chaos; Chaos meetings; Innovation - the most effective advertisingTuesday, 22 June 2004 issue
Idea flow; Let's talk creativity and innovation; Tasks and projects; Fridays is ideas dayTuesday, 15 June 2004 issue
Innovation in small companies; Ideas campaigns; Creativity and motion; New from jpb.com: innovation mentorTuesday, 08 June 2004 issue
There are no bad ideas - just ideas that don't work; Levels of corporate innovativeness; The uninnovative candidateTuesday, 01 June 2004 issue
Beautiful inspiration; Creative teams; Just the right amount of tension; Creative networkTuesday, 25 May 2004 issue
Thinking at work; Creative network; Complaints: ideas in disguise; Innovative reading; First steps to improving innovationTuesday, 18 May 2004 issue
Individual vs. organisational innovation; Innovation and terrorism;Tuesday, 11 May 2004 issue
The big idea may not be big enough; Great idea - shame about the results; Brainstorming in the Internet ageTuesday, 04 May 2004 issue
Four kinds of corporate innovation; Idea management for tiny companies; Much ado about inventionTuesday, 27 April 2004 issue
Big and little innovation; marketing by the numbers; Environmental innovation at Xerox; Avoid being offshored - be innovativeTuesday, 20 April 2004 issue
Creativity needed in the ad biz; Capturing the imagination; Birth of human creativity pushed backTuesday, 13 April 2004 issue
Corporate jesters; Ideas and punishment; Creativity and mental illnessTuesday, 06 April 2004 issue
A (baker's) dozen characteristics of creative people; Hiring creative people for non-creative companies; More Google creativityTuesday, 30 March 2004 issue
Recruiting out the creative talent; Cleverest invention of the 1970s; Innovate or elseTuesday, 23 March 2004 issue
Unmarketing the competition; Walking; Brainstorm tool upgrade; quoteTuesday, 16 March 2004 issue
The risk of creativity; Humour and creativity; 2003 Innobarometer survey outTuesday, 09 March 2004 issue
Failed innovators; Next Internet killer application; Business opportunities with jpb.comTuesday, 02 March 2004 issue
Communicating for creativity; People are multidimensional; Outsourcing cheap innovationTuesday, 24 February 2004 issue
Space travel innovation; Disappointing toy news; Creativity tip; News from jpb.com: idea managementTuesday, 17 February 2004 issue
Rewarding innovation in Japan; What can Janet Jackson's breast teach us about creativity; InventionsTuesday, 10 February 2004 issue
Creativity in the news; Innovation at jpb.com; Creativity tip; interesting inventions; Food for thought: familyTuesday, 03 February 2004 issue
Creativity and innovation in the news; Innovation at jpb.com; Interesting inventions; Food for thought: creativity quotientTuesday, 27 January 2004 issue
Creativity and innovation in the news; Interesting inventions; Food for thought: utopia or nightmare?