innovation and idea management

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• - Creativity and Innovation blog offers white papers and links to related sites.
  
• - An interesting website that attempts to connect people together with a strong focus on innovation, innovation management or idea creation.
  
• - Allows companies, individuals, universities, and national agencies to buy and sell ideas, inventions, patents, copyrighted works, trademarks, and other intellectual property.
  
• - Case study: Imaginatik's Idea Central software streamlines innovation at W.R. Grace's Performance Chemicals division
  
• - BMW's "Virtual Innovation Agency" gathers feedback and ideas from outside sources - complete with legal waivers and codes of conduct to protect themselves. Of particular note is their document concerning the "evaluation of unprotected ideas
  
• - web site for the European Project named CREATE, Creative Processes for Innovation in Enterprises
  
• - Georgia-Pacific uses idea management software to generate ideas for new products and improved processes, and has saved the company millions of dollars.
  
• - Anne Fisher describes how companies are encouraging their employees to produce innovations.
  
• - KM World looks at some of the emerging software solutions for idea management, and has a nice mini-case study on Sun Life Financial.
  
• - Themed "Smart Thinking in Challenging Times," designed to help attendees bring innovation alive within organizations by addressing challenges in innovation leadership, new product and service development and the creation of a culture that suppor
  
• - Innovation consultants based in Australia. Assist companies to conceive and develop new product ideas. Provides creative thinking workshops, invention services, opportunity identification and evaluation, and market research services.
  
• - An excellent primer on idea management explaining what it is, how it can help you, and how to get started
  
• - Although IdeaDollar is now a dead and defunct internet company, the concept behind this company is still incredibly interesting - and may yet have its place in commerce at some point. Companies like IdeaDollar were the first to take idea management to the
  
• - Bring an idea to life by developing the idea and enhancing relationships with coworkers simultaneously. By Rick Maurer, in CEO Refresher.
  
• - Annual conference in Norway dedicated to creativity, innovation and design in the business world.
  
• - Tony Kontzer wrote this piece that was amongst the first public articles explicitly linking idea management and knowledge management together. It also includes a run down of some of the better-known vendors and includes the now-wellknown quote that "
  
• - Consulting firm led by author Robert Cooper dedicated to helping companies accelerate growth by improving their total approach to making new ideas happen.
  
• - A portal that features a collection of software tools, articles, news, and links for developing creative solutions for businesses.
  
• - Boston Consulting Group (BCG) have recently started coming up with some very interesting articles on innovation, and although they don't seem to have an innovation specific section to their site - or to their consulting practice - doing a quick search for
  
• - An interview with Charles Thompson of the Creative Group, talking about the value that companies can get through idea sharing and a formalised idea management program
  
• - Winston Brill's work is frequently quoted now - and his e-newsletter, the Monthly Mentor is a publication that frequently contains some great nuggets of wisdom on the topics of creativity, the value of ideas, and other innovation related topics.
  
• - Offers software and research in innovation. Features company profile, description of services, articles, and contacts.
  
• - WR Grace talks about how they've generated new product ideas over the last year that have the potential to achieve sales of $6 million.
  
• - Company that looks to commercially exploit innovations and toys from poorer countries.
  
• - Offers a comprehensive approach to strategic innovation which integrates training, facilitation, leadership development, team building, brainstorming and new product development.
  
• - The Innovation Network is an association of companies and employees committed to innovation. The site features some interesting articles as well as some fun tools related to innovation
  
• - A daily blog - focuses on Innovation, Knowledge Management and Idea Management Research. Contains not only original research, but also highlights articles and web sites in the topics covered.
  
• - A resource company that helps individuals and companies with creative thinking, problem solving, and innovation with training programs and consulting. It focuses on the management of ideas so they go somewhere.
  
• - Provides information on this innovation conference to be held in London, England. Offers list of speakers, quotes, testimonials, and contacts.
  
• - Offers information on seminars, brochures, faculty, and contacts.
  
• - Research and analysis company - has a couple of great documents on Innovation - "The Survey of Innovation Management Technology" , and "Focusing the Innovation Process" to name but two - but you have to pay to get access to them.
  
• - Founded in 1976, the PDMA is a volunteer-driven, not-for-profit organization with the mission to improve the effectiveness of people engaged in developing and managing new products, covering new goods as well as services