Collaborate to Innovate

Found an excellent article (actually it's a blog posting) on collaboration-based innovation. It was written by David Pollard, a KM professional and consultant. It's basically a case study based on some consulting that he did, and I think it is interesting, informative, and useful.

Pollard leads his customer - a furniture developer - through some interesting changes, and gets them to confront their innovation process. While I'm more inclined toward "job-based" innovation (as discussed by Clayton M. Christensen and Michael Raynor in their book, "The Innovator's Solution"), David points his client toward attribute marketing, but other than that difference of opinion, the remainder of the case study is great and gives some good tips on KM and innovation.

I hope you enjoy it.

http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/categories/businessInnovation/2005/01/26.html

By the way...the picture on the blog page I'm directing you to is of the SmartCar, created by Mercedes, and hopefully being made available later this year in the U.S. by ZAP (I got to get me one of those!) http://www.zapworld.com/