Once a year Brightidea have a user conference called Synthesize. This year it takes place from October 10th to 12th in San Francisco.

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I had an interesting call this morning on the way to the airport that I thought I'd share part of it. I was talking to an organisation about how to work with crowdsourcing and also when not to.

Crowdsource skills

Bimodal IT is the practice of managing two separate, coherent modes of delivery, one focused on stability and the other on agility (yes, I got that from Wikipedia) and yes, the focus will soon be innovation management software, I'm just setting the scene.

Multimodal innovation

This was a really interesting post to think about, but not the easiest to write. The reason, you simply can't switch on a culture of innovation. There's also no silver bullet. Trying to force it will likely mean your innovation efforts end in failure and making no effort means you'll end up like Kodak or Blockbuster.

Create an innovation culture

This is one of those posts that were made for me and for that I thank you Brightidea. I write that because if we've ever met, or you've read some of the posts on the site or when I was using Medium, when and if you watch the hangout below (it's one hour), you might recognise a bit of me in it.

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When you're working with innovation management, one of the things you have to know quite clearly is what innovation will look like. There are several factors to consider and yes, this is one of those posts that will be part of a series or maybe even a PDF you can download.

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