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			<title><![CDATA[Innovation With A Little Help From Your Friends]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=297</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Community and Web 2.0 continue to be a recurrent theme in many of the conversations I have with innovation leaders.  Helping innovation workers leverage each other is extremely important.  The value of intellectual assets within most companies is largely untapped.  Designers and engineers need better connectivity to ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[James Todhunter]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:50:17 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Once More on Innovation Versus Transformation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=293</link>
			<description><![CDATA[If Bruce Nussbaum’s recent posts on the death of innovation have done nothing else, they have generated a lot of reactions in the blogosphere.  Although that inner voice is shouting “Enough already!”, I can’t resist making one more comment on the subject.There have been some very nice pieces written ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[James Todhunter]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Buzz/Press&nbsp;,&nbsp;General]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:45:11 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[BCG Innovation 2008 Report]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=261</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Boston Consulting Group has released their latest report on innovation, “Innovation 2008: Is the Tide Turning?” As always, the BCG report provides some great insights on the state of innovation in business.There are plenty of very interesting insights in the report. It is a quick read and definitely worth ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[James Todhunter]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:10:23 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Can Innovation Be Learned?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=248</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Reader Tim de Jardine raised the perennial question of “Can innovation be taught?”  It’s a question that comes up from time to time because of the persistent myth of the great thinker in the back room who is singularly gifted with the ability to create great ideas.  If ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[James Todhunter]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 14:52:12 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Innovation Popcorn]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=245</link>
			<description><![CDATA[There are parallels visible in all aspects of life.  Recently, my personal experiences in the kitchen served as a reminder of how even small changes can have hidden complexities.Years ago, based on concerns over the possible connection between aluminum exposure and Alzheimer’s disease, my wife requested that we replace ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 08:50:54 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sound Guidance From Four Top Practitioners]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=219</link>
			<description><![CDATA[It is always interesting to hear the insights of leading innovation practitioners.  The article, “Instituting Innovation: Tell-all advice from 4 leading practitioners”, posted on Core77 doesn’t disappoint in this regard.  Here Arkadi Kuhlmann, CEO of ING Direct Bank; Ken Koziol, Corporate Senior Vice President for the Restaurant Solutions ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[James Todhunter]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Companies&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:35:28 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Innovation Lessons From Italian Furniture Design]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=216</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I stumbled upon an interesting article courtesy of the developerlife blog.  The article, “Radical Design, Radical Results”, is found on the Harvard Business School Working Knowledge site and presents some fascinating insights from HBS visiting scholar Roberto Verganti.Verganti was involved in a study of 100 Italian furniture design firms ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:43:42 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Training For The Innovation Ultra-marathon]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=213</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In “Forget about an idea marathon,” Katie Konrath uses the metaphor of racing and marathons to discuss how to work on creating a lot of ideas when the need arises.  The analogy is interesting because in business, the race never ends.  As soon as we deliver a product ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:32:00 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Broken Windows of Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=204</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Social policy has long been influenced by the Broken Window Theory.  Strangely, I see a similar phenomenon at work in our innovation neighborhood.  I see the evidence in the language of the discussion that is used.Usually, I don’t like to engage in what could be called a semantic ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:43:38 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Long Nose of Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=198</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A very insightful article appears in BusinessWeek online titled “The Long Nose of Innovation.”  Written by Bill Buxton of Microsoft, the article discuss the fact that great innovations don’t just happen, but rather they are the consequence of many events leading up to the eventual introduction of the high-value ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:15:09 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Forbes on Key Business Questions]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=191</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I stumbled across an article on Forbes discussing “The 20 Most Important Questions In Business”.  The importance of innovation to a businesses strategy is underscored by this list of questions.  Here are some of the questions identified by Forbes that make that very clear:How good is your value ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Management]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:24:36 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Crowd Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=190</link>
			<description><![CDATA[“Avoid the crowd.  Do your own thinking independently.  Be the chess player, not the chess piece.”-- Ralph CharellCrowdsourcing seems to be a popular topic these days.  But, I can’t help thinking that its popularity will be short lived.  There doesn’t seem to be any credible evidence ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:56:20 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Patents – Innovation Killer or Innovation Accelerator]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=187</link>
			<description><![CDATA[It seems every time I scan the recent blog postings on innovation, I see at least one or two posts declaring patents are stifling innovation.  This certainly wasn’t the intent of the patent system.  To the contrary, the idea was that by providing the temporary monopoly granted by ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:15:31 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Can Johnny Innovate?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=172</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Innovation consultant and occasional blogger Jim Belfiore is teasing us with “Why Johnny Can’t Innovate – Introductory Article.”  In this post, Jim promises to deliver us some interesting insights into the challenges that keep engineers and designers from become successful practitioners of repeatable innovation methods.Six key factors are introduced:lack ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:20:24 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Reflecting On Past Innovations]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=166</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Everything is new at one time or another.  Of course, nothing stays that way.  I am reminded of this everyday.  However, it is easy to forget the innovations of the past as progress continues at its every quickening pace and yesterday’s breakthroughs fade into obscurity.  I ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:59:24 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Time To Fish Or Cut Bait]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=156</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Well, it’s official.  Yesterday, Kathleen Casey-Kirschling, the first baby-boomer, filed for Social Security benefits.  She becomes the first of as many as 80 million individuals who will qualify for benefits in the coming years.This should be a major wake up call for corporations.  With many of their ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:33:45 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Melding Design and Strategy for Faster Innovation]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=131</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In the September issue of the Harvard Business Review (one of my favorite publications), there is a short article titled “Innovate Faster by Melding Design and Strategy” by Ravi Chhatpar of Frog Design.  In the article, Ravi suggests that innovation moves along more rapidly and effectively when designers are ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:43:38 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Predictable Futures: Using Patterns of System Evolution]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=107</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Recently, a colleague asked me if the Patterns of System Evolution from TRIZ could be used by non-TRIZ practitioners.  At first the question struck me as being rather odd; it seemed sort of like asking if a map could be used by someone who was not a cartographer.  ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Methodology]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:24:26 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Importance of Good Innovation Habits]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=100</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Over on the Innovate On Purpose blog, Jeffrey Phillips talks about making ideation productive.  He makes three key points.First, enterprises should take on a proactive approach to innovation.  This is undeniably true.  The practice of waiting for the next great idea to spring up and present itself ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:39:13 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Think Innovation Is A Numbers Game?  Think Again; Change The Rules.]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=94</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Here are a few common statements that signal serious problems in a company’s innovation program.“We have all the ideas we need.”“We just need to fill the pipeline with more ideas.”“Open innovation is the answer to all our problems.”If you understand why these statements signal an innovation program that is out ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Strategy]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:00:44 -0700</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[About Commentator: James Todhunter]]></title>
			<link>http://www.realinnovation.com/commentary/blog.asp?bi=95</link>
			<description><![CDATA[James Todhunter works on the front line of innovation and has over 30 years of experience in software technology and management. Jim is a seasoned innovator and inventor. Today, in his role as Chief Technology Officer for Invention Machine Corporation, he oversees the research and development operations. Invention Machine Corporation’s ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[About Commentators]]>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:19:12 -0700</pubDate>
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