Corporate Innovation Online

Innovation; success stories, methodologies, tools and tips.

Profiles of 10 of the most innovative companies in the world such as 3M [just updated on the appointment of Thulin], GE, P&G, Nucor, Toyota, Reckitt Benckiser and most recently John Deere. We focus on management practices which have sustained innovation in these companies over decades. RIM (Research in Motion), a special situation report, is available. We were, as of August, 2011, not optimistic about RIM’s capacity to innovate and survive!
Ten Papers on innovative issues and corporate and SME management practices; Starbucks innovation, BP: post Hayward and Dudley’s challenge.
Perspectives on how innovation impacts national and regional economic development issues; India’s innovativeness, Russia’s Silicon Valley, Japan’s culture, Scotland and the linkage between academia and industry.
A 25-Factor ‘Innovation Survey’ - [What is this? ISA [Innovation Survey Assessment]] – which provides a free customized report on your own corporation’s management practices which impact innovativeness.
Twenty-five sources of Ideas for improving innovativeness organized by Factor so you can quickly access ideas which may be relevent to your own corporation.
Worksheets and graphs to assist in the evaluation of your own corporation’s management practices. Download the Innovation Assessment Methodology , an approach to evaluating culture, organizational structures, and the role of innovation in the corporation.

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Build innovation into your strategy! Condition-driven strategy execution sets out how to incorporate a firm’s ‘spectrum of innovation’ into the development of strategy. Get to know more about your competition’s innovativeness! Download 22-slide presentation: Condition-Driven Strategy.
A special report on innovation in SMEs. Download 4 pages; SME Special Report.
Download 22 slides - about India’s innovativeness; a long way to go!
DSM, The Netherlands. In business for over 100 years. Download DSM Innovation Profile , 6 pages, DSM’s approach to the management of innovation.

Capitalism and Short-term thinking

The New York Times published an article, May 10, 2012, on the relationship between short-term thinking and capitalism. A new initiative by the Henry Jackson Institute for Inclusive Capitalism discusses the benefits of thinking longer term. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/14/group-calls-on-companies-to-focus-on-long-term-goals/. Factor #1 in the survery on this web site asks the question about the your company’s emphasis on short-term verus [...]
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Your corporation's innovativeness?

If you are trying to improve your corporation's innovativeness, or implementing an idea management system, where collaboration and trust are fundamental to the success of the system, it is vital to know more about the culture of your organization. Take the 25-Factor Survey to better understand where to start the process of improvement. If your ‘Score’ is over ’60? you should take remedial action! Start by viewing ‘Innovative Ideas’; solutions tailored to your own 'score'. Complete the survey and receive your own customized report - to give you a head start.