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A New Blueprint for Engaging People through Collaborative Innovation

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Frost & Sullivan Growth, Innovation and Leadership Advisory Board Member Doug Collins releases Volume 2 of “Innovation Architecture”

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – April 2, 2013 – Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, today announced that Doug Collins, a member of the Growth, Innovation and Leadership (GIL) Global Board of Advisors, released Volume 2 of “Innovation Architecture: A New Blueprint for Engaging People through Collaborative Innovation.” This is a continuation of Collins’ visionary perspective on the subject of accelerating corporate growth through best practices in collaborative innovation.

“People bring many gifts to the table, including their ideas,” said Collins. “The practice of collaborative innovation gives them new opportunities to innovate transparently and collaborate seamlessly. The organizations that thrive in the Digital Age will be the ones that find ways to embrace the practice.”

 

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Governance in the Context of the Innovation Blueprint

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What does governing the practice of collaborative innovation mean? When we govern do we compromise the spirit of openness and experimentation that enlivens the practice? In this article innovation architect Doug Collins applies the blueprint for collaborative innovation to explore these critical questions. His view? Governance is guidance: helping people work to their potential.

The Blueprint, Revisited

I introduced the blueprint for collaborative innovation in a past article. The blueprint offers a simple, visual approach for depicting how your strategic intent maps to the forums where you apply the practice which in turn map to the mean by which you support a day in the life of a given campaign (figure 1). Continue reading »