Weekly News Brief: Innovation, Collaboration, Community Engagement
Submitted by asalvesen on Tue, 06/15/2010 - 14:18
Author: Inder Sidhu Date: June 4, 2010 Source: Forbes.com URL: http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/innovation-cisco-disruptive-sustaining-... Innovation: An effective innovation strategy requires both a commitment to sustaining innovation and a commitment to disruptive innovation, according to Cisco’s Inder Sidhu in the Forbes article “The Two-Pronged Approach To Innovation Your Company Needs.” Avoiding a tradeoff between sustaining innovation and disruptive innovation is a challenge that all companies face. Fortune 500 companies, very mindful of their accountability to customers and shareholders, tend to invest fewer resources in disruptive innovation. Start-ups, on the other hand, focus most of their resources on disruptive innovation. The key to successful innovation is to consciously pursue both types, as the amplification of the combination is significant.
Author: Inder Sidhu Date: June 4, 2010 Source: Forbes.com URL: http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/innovation-cisco-disruptive-sustaining-... Innovation: An effective innovation strategy requires both a commitment to sustaining innovation and a commitment to disruptive innovation, according to Cisco’s Inder Sidhu in the Forbes article “The Two-Pronged Approach To Innovation Your Company Needs.” Avoiding a tradeoff between sustaining innovation and disruptive innovation is a challenge that all companies face. Fortune 500 companies, very mindful of their accountability to customers and shareholders, tend to invest fewer resources in disruptive innovation. Start-ups, on the other hand, focus most of their resources on disruptive innovation. The key to successful innovation is to consciously pursue both types, as the amplification of the combination is significant.
Author: MIT Sloane Management Review Staff Date: June 04, 2010 Source: MIT Sloane Management Review Collaboration: The landscape of the business world is changing, as pointed out by a recent MIT Management Review article. Focus is being shifted away from a structure of centralized control and conformity, a phenomenon the new book The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion calls “push.” This shift is toward a greater focus on “pull,” which involves collaboration and bottom-up direction in a far less rigid environment than has traditionally existed. This trend has tremendous implications on all aspects of business and is therefore one that companies cannot afford to ignore. Author: Kivi Leroux Miller Date: June 08, 2010 Source: Frogloop Blog Community Engagement: Many nonprofits limit their interactions with supporters to a lengthy quarterly newsletter. This is not the optimal strategy for community engagement, asserts Kivi Leroux Miller. Rather the key to building meaningful relationships with supporters is to send frequent, brief communications. These can be in the form of a quick phone call, an email or updates on social networking sites. This approach assures supporters that they are not merely names on a list and keeps the lines of communication open for feedback. Date: June 2010 Source: Hewlett Foundation URL: http://www.hewlett.org/item_versions/637 Philanthropy & Social Media: Philanthropy blogs have grown significantly in importance in recent years. Whereas once they played a relatively obscure role in the online world with only a small number of participants, philanthropy blogs have since grown in terms of number (thousands now exist) and influence. Bloggers are now given press credentials at major conferences, and traditional media sources turn to bloggers for their expertise. Foundations are also turning to bloggers for their assistance in establishing a dialogue with their communities. While this explosion of the philanthropic blogosphere has led to a democratization of information exchange, where relatively unknown bloggers are given a voice, Sean Stannard-Stockton, author of Tactical Philanthropy blog, predicts, “"The blogosphere is not going to continue to be dominated by people outside the leadership circles.” Author: Heather McLeod Grant Date: June 09, 2010 Source: Beth’s Blog URL: http://www.bethkanter.org/kaboom-case-study-monito/ Social Impact: Integrating online and offline action is a powerful, cost-effective way for nonprofits to efficiently scale their impact. One of the first nonprofits to take an online approach to disseminating its model, KaBOOM!, is the subject of a recent Monitor Institute case study, “Breaking New Ground: Using the Internet to Scale.” KaBOOM! is a non-profit which “provides tools, training and resources to build playgrounds across the United States.” In this case study, the Monitor Institute found that through its offering of online tools, which include online training, a social networking site and a Google-map mashup, KaBOOM! was able to improve 10 times as many neighborhoods for every dollar spent as a dollar spent on offline efforts. The study identifies 7 key lessons nonprofits can use to leverage the internet to share their program models and increase the impact of their offline programs. Author: Nigel Nicholson Date: June 07, 2010 Source: Harvard Business Review URL:http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/06/gender_and_the_future_of_the_o.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+harvardbusiness+(HBR.org)&utm_content=Google+Reader Women and Leadership: The rigid hierarchical model firmly entrenched in today’s corporate culture is actually based on a model that humans first developed thousands of years ago. Over the centuries, little progress has been made in overturning the patriarchal order inherent in this model. In a Harvard Business Review article, Nigel Nicholson looks at why these structural hierarchies persist. He explores the role of men in perpetuating them and the future role of women, who “lack the same presumptions of status” in changing that structure. Author: Jeffrey R. Young Date: June 13, 2010 Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education URL: http://chronicle.com/article/The-Souls-of-the-Machine-Clay/65827 In this article, Jeffrey R. Young examines the current work of Clay Shirky as well as the past events that led him to his current position of instructor at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and web-culture guru. Particular attention is paid to Shirky’s new book, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age, in which Shirky calls for a shift from the talent-draining activity of watching television to mass participation in projects through which people channel their creativity in an environment focused on sharing, Wiki-style. This shift, which can be galvanized by consumers, web designers, internet programmers and the companies which employ them, Shirky believes is the key to making the world a better place.
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