Comments on: On Innovation and Path Pollution http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/07/29/on-innovation-and-path-pollution/ a blog about information Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cook’s Collaborative Edge » Blog Archive » Do We Understand Who We are and What We Are Trying to Achive? http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/07/29/on-innovation-and-path-pollution/comment-page-1/#comment-4366 Cook’s Collaborative Edge » Blog Archive » Do We Understand Who We are and What We Are Trying to Achive? Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:09:49 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/07/29/on-innovation-and-path-pollution/#comment-4366 [...] Truly radical, he abandoned the proprietary silos of the various info tech firms that he had grown up with in the 80s and 90s to embrace less costly, open source tools and take the savings and use them to build financial management tools for Dresdner”s customers. JP writes in his blog in a piece called On Innovation and Path Pollution. He quotes Michael Schrage as saying: innovation isn’t what innovators do….it’s what customers and clients adopt. [...] [...] Truly radical, he abandoned the proprietary silos of the various info tech firms that he had grown up with in the 80s and 90s to embrace less costly, open source tools and take the savings and use them to build financial management tools for Dresdner”s customers. JP writes in his blog in a piece called On Innovation and Path Pollution. He quotes Michael Schrage as saying: innovation isn’t what innovators do….it’s what customers and clients adopt. [...]

]]> By: Cook’s Collaborative Edge » Blog Archive » Do We Understand Who We are and What We Are Trying to Achive? http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/07/29/on-innovation-and-path-pollution/comment-page-1/#comment-4362 Cook’s Collaborative Edge » Blog Archive » Do We Understand Who We are and What We Are Trying to Achive? Tue, 01 Aug 2006 13:03:05 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/07/29/on-innovation-and-path-pollution/#comment-4362 [...] Truly radical he abandoned the proprietary silos of the various info tech firms that he had grown up with in the 80s and 90s to embrace less costly, open source tools and take the savings and use them to build financial management tools for Dresdner”s customers. JP writes in his blog in a piece called On Innovation and Path Pollution. He quotes Michael Schrage as saying: innovation isn’t what innovators do….it’s what customers and clients adopt. [...] [...] Truly radical he abandoned the proprietary silos of the various info tech firms that he had grown up with in the 80s and 90s to embrace less costly, open source tools and take the savings and use them to build financial management tools for Dresdner”s customers. JP writes in his blog in a piece called On Innovation and Path Pollution. He quotes Michael Schrage as saying: innovation isn’t what innovators do….it’s what customers and clients adopt. [...]

]]> By: JP http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/07/29/on-innovation-and-path-pollution/comment-page-1/#comment-4297 JP Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:03:55 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/07/29/on-innovation-and-path-pollution/#comment-4297 I am reasonably aware of the democratised innovation work done by von Hippel and by Benkler, but felt this was something more. Opensource communities tend to follow some sort of power ratio, for every 1000 visitors to an opensource hosting site, you will have around 80 activists and a hard core of about 20. What I was trying to do with my post was to raise the importance of the other 920, the lurkers who experiment and implement and feed back. They are the consumer part of the innovation process. And it is there that we need the participation of the US. Make sense? I am reasonably aware of the democratised innovation work done by von Hippel and by Benkler, but felt this was something more. Opensource communities tend to follow some sort of power ratio, for every 1000 visitors to an opensource hosting site, you will have around 80 activists and a hard core of about 20.

What I was trying to do with my post was to raise the importance of the other 920, the lurkers who experiment and implement and feed back. They are the consumer part of the innovation process. And it is there that we need the participation of the US.

Make sense?

]]> By: Rajan http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/07/29/on-innovation-and-path-pollution/comment-page-1/#comment-4289 Rajan Sun, 30 Jul 2006 16:47:47 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/07/29/on-innovation-and-path-pollution/#comment-4289 This reminds me of the work on user driven innovation by Von Hippel at MIT This reminds me of the work on user driven innovation by Von Hippel at MIT

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