Innovation will be the single most important factor in determining America's success through the 21st century... America's challenge is to unleash its innovation capacity to drive productivity, standard of living and leadership in global markets.

At a time when macro-economic forces and financial constraints make innovation-driven growth a more urgent imperative than ever before, American businesses, government, workers and universities face an unprecedented acceleration of global change, relentless pressure for short-term results, and fierce competition from countries that seek an innovation-driven future for themselves. For the past 25 years, we have optimized our organizations for efficiency and quality. Over the next quarter century, we must optimize our society for innovation.


"InnovateAmerica" report by the U.S. Council on Competitiveness

 
   

Welcome to Blue Rock Innovation, a web site developed to deliver information on Strategy and Innovation.

The Strategy area outlines a strategic planning process that many firms have used. This is not meant to imply that this is the only way to approach strategy planning; instead it is meant to depict one method for approaching strategy planning that has been shown to work.

The Innovation area has two main sections – Introduction and Innovation University. The Introduction gives a very brief introduction to Innovation, while Innovation University is the most comprehensive internet source on Innovation. It covers every type of innovation and innovation management method currently discussed or written about.

The New Yorker's Epic Fail On Innovation
The New Yorker is my favorite mainstream magazine. Week after week, its polished writing is a sign that maybe after all, civilization is not yet quite extinct. So when The New Yorker devotes the whole of its current issue to innovation, I should be very happy. But I?m not. That?s because the entire issue hardly talks about innovation at all. Inventions, not innovation The May 2013 innovation ...

ISC8 Wins Innovation in Security and Assurance Award
ISC8 Inc. , a provider of intelligent cybersecurity solutions, today announced its win in the Innovation in Security and Assurance category at the 2013 Pipeline Innovation Awards, which provides the highest ...

Innovation and the CIO: 5 Great Ideas
Arguing that business innovation doesn?t have to be a big-bang extravaganza, Chris Murphy of InformationWeek has published a compelling list of innovation guidelines that fly in the face of conventional wisdom: IT should not partner with business units, college interns must be a top priority, and small thinking is the way to go.

Innovation schools catch on
A growing number of school districts from Boston to Western Massachusetts are embracing a new kind of school to pursue educational innovations and compete more aggressively with charter schools.        

When 'innovation' isn't enough
The same team that’s bringing you the Jetsons and inviting Apple CEO Tim Cook to the State of the Union is also the same team that seems to be tripping over old-world politics?

Skillsoft Announces 2013 Global Skillsoft Perspectives Innovation Award Winners
Skillsoft today announced the winners of its 2013 Innovation Awards at Global Skillsoft Perspectives, its annual user conference. The winners, which include the United Service Organizations , PPD, the largest healthcare insurance company in Michigan, TELUS, ACTIVE Network, Ricoh Americas Corporation, BT, Sysmex, Carrington Mortgage Holdings, LLC, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lloyds ...

New IDC MarketScape Shows a Growing Need and Acceptance of Innovation Management Solutions Worldwide
International Data Corporation today published its 2013 Innovation Management Solutions MarketScape report profiling and ranking 10 leading worldwide providers. The new resea

Innovation Is Key To The Success Of 21st Century Philanthropy
This week, the Rockefeller Foundation celebrates its 100th birthday. Notably, the organization has named innovation as the key component for its philanthropy in the next century.

Bernanke upbeat on innovation outlook in commencement address
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke painted an upbeat picture on Saturday for the potential of innovation to lift living standards, delivering a sweeping look at the last 100 years that included memories of his 1963 South Carolina home. Bernanke made no reference to monetary policy or the immediate outlook for the U.S. economy in prepared remarks to graduates of Bard ...

Wireless Pill Bottle Wins Healthcare Innovation World Cup
NEW YORK, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Developers of a pill bottle that wirelessly transmits data, measures medication and sends patient reminders have emerged as grand prize winners in the Healthcare ...
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