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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&pmLanguage=001&START_IT=0&SEARCH_TYPE=word&ORDER_BY=&DISPLAY=1&FORM_STATUS=submitted&INDUSTRY=&FUNCTION=&PUB_TYPE=&LANGUAGE=&WORD=Innovation&KEYWORD_OPTION=exact&SEARCH_TITLE_ABSTRACT=1&SEARCH_AUTHOR=1&SEARCH_FULL_TEXT=1
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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_innovation/7_innovation.shtml?7_0
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BPM Helps Grace Chemical Innovate - eWeek
Case study: Imaginatik's Idea Central software streamlines innovation at W.R. Grace's Performance Chemicals division
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1721053,00.asp
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BRINQ - Innovation & Toys from the Brink of the World
Seeks to enable affordable local invention of toys in the developing world and deploys a business system to propagate the most innovative creations to the rest of a developing market and for licensing back in the developed world.
http://www.brinq.com/workshop/
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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/
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CREATEProject
web site for the European Project named CREATE, Creative Processes for Innovation in Enterprises
http://www.diegm.uniud.it/create/
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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
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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
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How Their Garden Grows - CFO IT - Winter 2004 Issue - CFO.com
WR Grace talks about how they've generated new product ideas over the last year that have the potential to achieve sales of $6 million.
http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/3373514?f=advancesearch
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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
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Imaginatik
Offers software and research in innovation. Features company profile, description of services, articles, and contacts.
http://www.imaginatik.com
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InformationWeek - Georgia-Pacific Uses Innovation Brainstorming Tool
Georgia-Pacific uses idea management software to generate ideas for new products and improved processes, and has saved the company millions of dollars.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=159904875&tid=5979
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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
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Innovation Bootcamp
Offers information on seminars, brochures, faculty, and contacts.
http://www.innovationbootcamp.com
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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/
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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
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KMWorld Magazine - Idea management: Everyone's an innovator
KM World looks at some of the emerging software solutions for idea management, and has a nice mini-case study on Sun Life Financial.
http://www.kmworld.com/publications/magazine/index.cfm?action=readarticle&Article_ID=1915&Publication_ID=123
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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
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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
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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
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