Month: April 2008

Customer-Driven Innovation

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

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

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 […]

Blogging from the I3M Meeting – I

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 […]

The Institute for Innovation in Information Management – Spring Symposium

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, […]

2008 Special Libraries Association Conference – Can You Keep a Secret? How to Keep Your Competitors from Learning What You Know

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). […]