I'm a teacher, business consultant and innovator from way back.

My interest in innovation goes back to childhood. The sort of innovation we did was to make do with what we had, and yet to find a way to achieve what we wanted to do. This is the result of living in New Zealand. For years when we wanted to get "stuff" if we couldn't make it ourselves we had to wait months for it to come from somewhere else. On the farm, a common, cheap and useful resource was fencing wire. Farmers here have a reputation for building and fixing almost anything with a single resource, No8 Wire. Today one of our leading venture capital firms calls itself "No8 Ventures limited".

I developed a theory of innovation the Veech Innovation Model, originally to explain what I understood about innovation to high school classes I was teaching. That was about 1986. Since then the model has had some minor tweeking, but it's essentially the same.

For a long time I wasn't very confident about my model. Not a single person has ever come ...

Hello All

(well there are three of us anyway)

I spent a couple of weeks building the Innovation Wiki,
in mid 2006, at this url:
http://innovation.wikispaces.com/

There are about a dozen people registered as members,
but only 3 or 4 of them have added to the pages.

I've got a 100 pages of more of potential input but
lots of it is really repetitive stuff that will never
get published. Selecting what NOT to include is an
important side of publishing on the web.

I'd really appreciate some fresh eyes looking over what
is already in the Innovation Wiki. Edit it where you
see fit. That might also let you see where some new
pages are needed. By all means add your own.

Regards
John

As I'm playing about in my Innovation directory I came across an old article I thought I'd share with you.

http://www.ate.co.nz/innovation/recognition.html

The key point is that developing new ideas takes time and often you have to visit some scary places and to battle alone before success comes.

"It takes courage to investigate a vague idea, enormous energy, because you don’t have "permission" to go there. (A self created "permission".) We do kill our own inspirations. Mostly that’s good, most of our ideas are really not worth the effort. Self censorship exists for a purpose. BUT we must in the same process also kill some ideas we should have explored in more detail. You have to make choices and it’s simply not true that "you can do anything"."

Take a look
John

Hi

I do realise that there are only two of us here at the moment. I run an Innovation Network on Ryze with about 350 members.
http://veech-network.ryze.com/
You can read that forum without joining.

I also run a web site, and as I was playing about in my Innovation directory there, I came across an old article I thought I'd share with you.
http://www.ate.co.nz/innovation/recognition.html

The key point is that developing new ideas takes time and often you have to visit some scary places and to battle alone before success comes.

"It takes courage to investigate a vague idea, enormous energy, because you don’t have "permission" to go there. (A self created "permission".) We do kill our own inspirations. Mostly that’s good, most of our ideas are really not worth the effort. Self censorship exists for a purpose. BUT we must in the same process also kill some ideas we should have explored in more detail. You have to make choices and it’s simply not true that "you can do anything"."

Take a look
John

John ...