Innovation afgørende for konkurrenceevnen

"Innovation afgørende for konkurrenceevnen" skriver Børsen i deres udgave torsdag den 27. juli 2010 og citerer Deloittes '2010 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index', hvor "Talentdrevet innovation" scorer 9,22 og dermed højest på spørgsmålet om 'Vigtigste faktorer bag konkurrencedygtighed'.

Dette støttes af Professor Keld Laursen fra CBS, som udtaler: ">Der er ingen tvivl om, at det lønniveau, der er i Danmark, kun kan retfærdiggøres ved en høj produktivitet. Og den kan enten foregå via automatisering eller via designinnovation, der kan omsættes til produkter eller tjenester. Og det er da logisk, at udenlandske virksomheder på grund af omkostningerne kun vælger at lokalisere sig i Danmark på grund af innovationsårsager. Men det kræver også, at Danmark fortsat har et højt vidensniveau".

Hos Deloitte understreger Lars Nyhegn-Eriksen, at tiden er kommet dertil, hvor politikerne skal til at sætte handling bag ordene og støtte op om innovation. "Når erhvervslivet udnævner innovation som den primære drivkraft bag vækst, så er det også en klar udfordring til politikerne om at gøre noget ved området. Fra politisk side har der været pæne ord om emnet – men i forhold til andre europæiske lande, for eksempel Finland og England, savner jeg en klar linje herhjemme" siger Lars Nyhegn-Eriksen.

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Open innovation: Dansk erhvervsliv bagud med åben innovation

Forfatter Stefan Lindegaard beklager at danske virksomheder ikke endnu har set mulighederne ved åben innovation på trods af at man i USA og Tyskland er kommet godt i gang.

Virksomhedens netværk giver både adgang til flere ressourcer og ny viden som den enkelte udviklingsorganisation ikke vil kunne levere alene.



Det anbefales, at besøge Stefan Lindegaards hjemmeside: http://www.15inno.com/

Stemmen blev hørt (Dagbladet Børsen, Fredag den 16. juli 2010)

The today's edition of BØRSEN has an interesting article named "Stemmen blev hørt" and is about how Novozymes has worked with communications.

The article begins like this:"Imagine going from having a small group of employees in the communications department to suddenly have 5,000 communicators throughout the organization"
In the context of Innovationshøjskolen it will be obvious to rewrite the same article to start:"Imagine going from having a small group of employees in the innovation department to suddenly have 5000 innovators throughout the organization"

The challenge for Novozymes was to make communication into a discipline which not only was carried on by highly skilled, strategic minded and well-payed people in the communications department, who wrote stories and articles which nobody really bothered to read.

One could be provoked to say that innovation should not only be performed by highly skilled people that are developing new products and processes which do not win sympathy where it is needed. Instead, innovation should be performed where the need is and by those who have the challenges right at their radar sight.

The Novozyme communicationmodel VOICE is therefore, if 'communication' is translated into 'innovation', an excellent example of Innovationshøjskolens mission - to empower people to innovate.

Rune Gregers Meyer

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Presentation by Google CIO Douglas Merrill on Innovation at Google

Innovationshøjskolens Linkedin-gruppe nu over 100 medlemmer

The Innovationshojskolens Linkedin Group has now exceeded 100 members - Congratulations to all members.

Open Source Innovation

One of the three 'legs' Innovationshøjskolen is based on is 'Open Source Innovation'. The thoughts behind this, 'Open Source Innovation', lies in the concept of knowledge sharing - ie the desire to share knowledge and thus promote innovation.

This can also be considered as Open Innovation, that Chesbrough (2003) has defined as: the use of purposive inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation, and expand the markets for external use of innovation,respectively.

A report from University of Cambridge sets out to answer the question: ‘I want to implement open innovation – where should I start and what should I do?' which is recommend reading and also gives a brief idea of the outcome of Open Innovation. You find the report here: How-to-implement-open-innovation

Recommended reading from 'Blogging Innovation'

By Kamal Hassan, President and CEO of Innovation 360 Institute,

20 Phrases That Kill Ideas and Innovation

Look out for killer phrases that start with “That’s a good idea, but…”

1. It’s against company policy
2. It’s not practical
3. It’s not necessary
4. We don’t have the resources
5. It will cost too much
6. We’ve never done it that way
7. Our customers (or vendors) won’t like it
8. It needs more study
9. It’s not part of your job
10. Let’s make a survey first
11. Let’s sit on it for a while
12. That’s not our problem
13. The boss won’t go for it
14. The old timers won’t use it
15. It’s too hard to administer
16. Why hasn’t someone else suggested it before?
17. Let’s form a committee
18. We should wait until the economy improves
19. Who else has tried it?
20. Is it best practice?

When you are hit with one of these killer phrases, see if you can get to the bottom of it. Is the person simply afraid of change, or do they have data to back up their objection? Has something similar been tried in the past? If so, why did it fail?