Pictures from Montpellier, France – I
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Archive for April, 2008
Center for International Studies and the London School of Economics and Political Science
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
I am getting ready to leave my office at the London School of Economics and Political Science. I will be headed to Montpellier, France to spend two weeks at the Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier (GSCM)–Business School in France. I will be a visiting scholar at the GSCM-Business School. I have had a great time during my residency at the Center for International Studies at the LSE. Thanks to all that made my stay pleasant and intellectual stimulating. Special thanks to John Kent for inviting me to the LSE. Also, thanks to Carola, Moshe, and Eva for their company and thoughts on my research. I will continue my affiliation with the CIS and LSE even though I will not be residing in London.
Customer-Driven Innovation
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
A research paper from my Leveraging Ideas for Innovation project funded through the Institute for Innovation in Information Management (I3M) has been published:
Desouza, K.C., Awazu, Y., Jha, S., Dombrowski, C., Papagari, S. Baloh, P., and Kim, J.Y. “Customer-Driven Innovation,” Research-Technology Management, 51 (3), 2008, 35-44.
The paper can be retrieved from: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iri/rtm/2008/00000051/00000003
Thanks to All…I3M Spring Symposium
Monday, April 21st, 2008
The I3M symposium concluded with high energy, interesting conversations, and superb networking. I want to express my sincere gratitude to all who took part in this event. Stay tuned for details on our next event – the Fall Symposium…
Blogging from the I3M Meeting – II
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
The symposium continues to be stimulating. Harry Bruce, Dean of the Information School, gave a luncheon address on the value proposition of the Information School. This was followed by a talk from Eric Larsen, Managing Director, Head of the Information Systems Group, BlackRock Alternative Advisors, who discussed how building a collaborative culture is critical to sustaining innovation. The final presentation was by Paul Arnold who gave an exciting and engaging presentation on how to use technologies to enhance spatial and temporal information visualization. Next, we have a panel discussion scheduled….
Blogging from the I3M Meeting – I
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
The I3M meeting continues to debate critical ideas and innovations in the domain of information management. Roberto Evaristo started the day with a keynote presentation on how 3M is using expertise mapping to enhance its innovation capabilities. This was followed by a presentation from the technology group at Washington Mutual (WAMU). The WAMU team presented on their innovation process – their idea marketplace. Chris Rivinus from Parsons Brinckerhoff followed up with a discussion on how they were are using communities of practice for knowledge transfer across engineering domains and geographical regions. Next, we have lunch…and then more presentations…and lots of discussion (over wine!!!)
The Institute for Innovation in Information Management – Spring Symposium
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Today, the Institute for Innovation in Information Management (I3M) at the University of Washington (UW) will host its spring symposium. I3M is housed at the Information School of the UW. The Agenda for the symposium can be found here [LINK]. Today’s event will contain presentations from several leading organizations (e.g. 3M, Washington Mutual, Black Rock, etc) who will be discussing how they are harnessing the competitive capacity of information through innovative management practices. We have sold out all seats for the events and have representatives from over 20 organizations attending.
2008 Special Libraries Association Conference – Can You Keep a Secret? How to Keep Your Competitors from Learning What You Know
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
I will be giving a talk at the 2008 Special Libraries Association Conference (SLA). The Special Libraries Association serves more than 12,000 innovative information professionals in 83 countries. Its members include corporate, academic and government information specialists and their strategic partners.
The talk will be based on my book, Managing Knowledge Security (Kogan Page, 2007). My talk will take place during one of the spotlight speaker sessions, “Can You Keep a Secret? How to Keep Your Competitors from Learning What You Know” (see LINK)
For those interested in buying the book, please visit Amazon.com