Directory > Reference > Knowledge Management > Knowledge Creation > Innovation and Idea Management BMW Virtual Innovation Agency BMW's "Virtual Innovation Agency" gathers feedback and ideas from outside sources - complete with legal waivers and codes of conduct to protect themselves. Of particular note is their document concerning the "evaluation of unprotected ideas" which covers all ideas for which patent protection has not yet been sought. http://www.bmwgroup.com/e/nav/index.html?http://www.bmwgroup.com/e/0_0_www_bmwgroup_com/7_innov.... Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Innovation Authority Has a couple of shallow articles on various innovation topics http://www.innovationauthority.com Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Winston Brill - Creativity Comments Winston Brill's work is frequently quoted now - and his e-newsletter, the Monthly Mentor is a publication that frequently contains some great nuggets of wisdom on the topics of creativity, the value of ideas, and other innovation related topics. http://www.winstonbrill.com/bril001/html/comments/comments.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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IdeaFlow: Creativity, Innovation IdeaFlow is a particularly interesting innovation Blog with several very noted contributors such as the InnovationNetwork's Joyce Wycoff and Hass Business School's Henry Chesbrough. The contributions run the gamut from creativity puzzles, to conference updates, to interesting innovation websites and articles, to random thoughts on innovation by the participants. http://www.corante.com/ideaflow/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Brainfruit BrainFruit's newsletter is produced once every 12 weeks and aims simply to put in front of you some new ideas that are shaping the way the world is working. Some are logical extensions of the way we work, others are out-of-the-box new businesses - but all are interesting to read - and all are meant to be read and digested casually so as to give you food for your own ideas later on http://www.brain-fruit.com/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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BCG Publications - "Innovation" Boston Consulting Group (BCG) have recently started coming up with some very interesting articles on innovation, and although they don't seem to have an innovation specific section to their site - or to their consulting practice - doing a quick search for "innovation" on their publications section will reveal some great nuggets of information. http://www.bcg.com/publications/publications_search_results.jsp?analyze=0&coMiLanguage=en&a.... Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Knowledge Central is the iconic hub of the Knowledge Campus Knowledge Central is the iconic hub of the Knowledge Campus, which enables its occupiers to access shared services, marketing, and business support to increase their competitiveness. http://www.knowledge-central.co.uk Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Directives Enterprises Innovation consultants based in Australia. Assist companies to conceive and develop new product ideas. Provides creative thinking workshops, invention services, opportunity identification and evaluation, and market research services. http://www.directives.com.au Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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General Ideas Inc. software vendor - their web site features company profile, services and contact information. http://www.generalideasinc.com Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Alain Rostain : Creativity Consultant Creative Advantage offers a comprehensive approach to strategic innovation which integrates training, facilitation, leadership development, team building, brainstorming and new product development. http://www.creativeadvantage.com Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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InnoTown Innovation & Design Conference Annual conference in Norway dedicated to creativity, innovation and design in the business world. http://www.innotown.org Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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The Innovation Resource Consulting Group Consulting firm led by author Robert Cooper dedicated to helping companies accelerate growth by improving their total approach to making new ideas happen. http://www.innovationresource.com Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Gartner Group Research and analysis company - has a couple of great documents on Innovation - "The Survey of Innovation Management Technology" , and "Focusing the Innovation Process" to name but two - but you have to pay to get access to them. http://www.gartner.com Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Inventions Network. Allows companies, individuals, universities, and national agencies to buy and sell ideas, inventions, patents, copyrighted works, trademarks, and other intellectual property. http://www.newideatrade.com/inventions.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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ImplementIdeas.Com Solicits business ideas to be evaluated by business people and the best ideas are promoted for investment purposes. http://implementideas.com Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Innovation Convergence 2003 - 2004 Themed "Smart Thinking in Challenging Times," designed to help attendees bring innovation alive within organizations by addressing challenges in innovation leadership, new product and service development and the creation of a culture that supports ideas and innovation. Features call for speakers, registration and venue information. Minneapolis, MN, USA. http://www.iirusa.com/convergence Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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IM-BOOT Creativity, Innovation Circle & Innovation Management An interesting website that attempts to connect people together with a strong focus on innovation, innovation management or idea creation. http://innovation.im-boot.org Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Bringing Ideas to Life: Seven Principles for Pulling Together Bring an idea to life by developing the idea and enhancing relationships with coworkers simultaneously. By Rick Maurer, in CEO Refresher. http://www.refresher.com/!rmideas.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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C. W. Prather & Associates A resource company that helps individuals and companies with creative thinking, problem solving, and innovation with training programs and consulting. It focuses on the management of ideas so they go somewhere. http://www.bottomlineinnovation.com/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Applied Innovation Alliance Provides business consulting, training, coaching through virtual and on-site approaches. Offers articles, links to related resources, and contact information. http://www.aia-innovate.com Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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InnovationTools A portal that features a collection of software tools, articles, news, and links for developing creative solutions for businesses. http://www.innovationtools.com Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Articulating and integrating innovation in business Explains why programs whose foundations include distributed, bottoms-up innovation initiatives, supported by clearly defined knowledge production, validation and integration processes, yield the best results. By IBM Global Services. http://www-1.ibm.com/services/insights/artic_innov.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Corporate Innovation Blog A daily blog - focuses on Innovation, Knowledge Management and Idea Management Research. Contains not only original research, but also highlights articles and web sites in the topics covered. http://imaginatikresearch.blogspot.com/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Ideadollar - Turning ideas into products Although IdeaDollar is now a dead and defunct internet company, the concept behind this company is still incredibly interesting - and may yet have its place in commerce at some point. Companies like IdeaDollar were the first to take idea management to the public - capturing ideas, paying submitters a nominal (virtual) amount and then attempting to develop the good ideas as a product development company. http://www.ideadollar.com/idollar.nsf/aboutus?openframeset Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Information Week Article - "A Timely Notion Worth Considering" Tony Kontzer wrote this piece that was amongst the first public articles explicitly linking idea management and knowledge management together. It also includes a run down of some of the better-known vendors and includes the now-wellknown quote that "Idea Management could rescue knowledge management from oblivion" by BaseX analyst Jon Spira http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020321S0009 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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The Miami Herald | 09/02/2002 | Daydreaming can pay off if employees share their ideas An interview with Charles Thompson of the Creative Group, talking about the value that companies can get through idea sharing and a formalised idea management program http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/3974190.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Product Development and Management Association Founded in 1976, the PDMA is a volunteer-driven, not-for-profit organization with the mission to improve the effectiveness of people engaged in developing and managing new products, covering new goods as well as services http://www.pdma.org Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Innovation Network: Corporate Innovation & Creativity The Innovation Network is an association of companies and employees committed to innovation. The site features some interesting articles as well as some fun tools related to innovation http://www.thinksmart.com/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Imaginatik World-wide leader for Software and Research on Enterprise-wide Innovation Management, Idea Management, Knowledge Management, and Employee Suggestion Systems. Imaginatik technology is used for New Product Development, Stage Gate processes, and other B2E and employee involvement applications by the world's biggest companies. Clients include Bristol-Myers Squibb, Teck Cominco, Cadbury-Schweppes, Hallmark, and many other Fortune 500 companies. http://www.imaginatik.com Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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