Web Directory

» BMW Virtual Innovation Agency
   BMW's "Virtual Innovation Agency" gathers feedback and ideas from outside sources - complete with legal waivers and codes of conduct to protect themselves. Of particular note is their document concerning the "evaluation of unprotected ideas" which covers
   http://www.bmwgroup.com/e/nav/index.html?http://www.bmwgroup.com/e/0_0_www_bmwgroup_com/7_innovation/7_innovation.shtml?7_0

» BPM Helps Grace Chemical Innovate - eWeek
   Case study: Imaginatik's Idea Central software streamlines innovation at W.R. Grace's Performance Chemicals division
   http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Applications/BPM-Helps-Grace-Chemical-Innovate/

» BRINQ - Innovation & Toys from the Brink of the World
   Seeks to enable affordable local invention of toys in the developing world and deploys a business system to propagate the most innovative creations to the rest of a developing market and for licensing back in the developed world.
   http://www.brinq.com/workshop/

» Bringing Ideas to Life: Seven Principles for Pulling Together
   Bring an idea to life by developing the idea and enhancing relationships with coworkers simultaneously. By Rick Maurer, in CEO Refresher.
   http://www.refresher.com/!rmideas.html

» C. W. Prather & Associates
   A resource company that helps individuals and companies with creative thinking, problem solving, and innovation with training programs and consulting. It focuses on the management of ideas so they go somewhere.
   http://www.bottomlineinnovation.com/

» CREATEProject
   web site for the European Project named CREATE, Creative Processes for Innovation in Enterprises
   http://www.diegm.uniud.it/create/

» Corporate Innovation Blog
   A daily weblog - focuses on Innovation, Knowledge Management and Idea Management Research. Contains not only original research, but also highlights articles and web sites in the topics covered.
   http://imaginatikresearch.blogspot.com/

» Creative Advantage
   Offers an approach to strategic innovation which integrates training, facilitation, leadership development, team building, brainstorming and new product development.
   http://www.creativeadvantage.com

» Directives Enterprises
   Innovation consultants based in Australia. Assist companies to conceive and develop new product ideas. Provides creative thinking workshops, invention services, opportunity identification and evaluation, and market research services.
   http://www.directives.com.au

» How Their Garden Grows - CFO IT - Winter 2004 Issue - CFO.com
   WR Grace talks about how they've generated new product ideas over the last year that have the potential to achieve sales of $6 million.
   http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/3373514?f=advancesearch

» IdeaFlow
   Creativity and Innovation weblog offers white papers and links to related sites.
   http://www.corante.com/ideaflow/

» Imaginatik
   Offers software and research in innovation. Features company profile, description of services, articles, and contacts.
   http://www.imaginatik.com

» Information Week Article - "A Timely Notion Worth Considering"
   Tony Kontzer wrote this piece that was amongst the first public articles explicitly linking idea management and knowledge management together. It also includes a run down of some of the better-known vendors and includes the now-wellknown quote that "Idea
   http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020321S0009

» InformationWeek - Georgia-Pacific Uses Innovation Brainstorming Tool
   Georgia-Pacific uses idea management software to generate ideas for new products and improved processes, and has saved the company millions of dollars.
   http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=159904875&tid=5979

» InnoTown Innovation & Design Conference
   Annual conference in Norway dedicated to creativity, innovation and design in the business world.
   http://www.innotown.org

» Innovation Convergence 2004
   Themed "Smart Thinking in Challenging Times," designed to help attendees bring innovation alive within organizations by addressing challenges in innovation leadership, new product and service development and the creation of a culture that supports ideas a
   http://www.iirusa.com/convergence

» Innovation Network: Corporate Innovation & Creativity
   The Innovation Network is an association of companies and employees committed to innovation. The site features some interesting articles as well as some fun tools related to innovation
   http://www.thinksmart.com/

» InnovationTools
   A portal that features a collection of software tools, articles, news, and links for developing creative solutions for businesses.
   http://www.innovationtools.com

» Product Development and Management Association
   Founded in 1976, the PDMA is a volunteer-driven, not-for-profit organization with the mission to improve the effectiveness of people engaged in developing and managing new products, covering new goods as well as services
   http://www.pdma.org

» Telaric Ideas
   Innovation and intellectual property firm offering patent analysis services and consulting services. Located in Mequon, WI.
   http://www.telaricideas.com/

» Winston Brill - Creativity Comments
   Winston Brill's work is frequently quoted now - and his e-newsletter, the Monthly Mentor is a publication that frequently contains some great nuggets of wisdom on the topics of creativity, the value of ideas, and other innovation related topics.
   http://www.winstonbrill.com/bril001/html/comments/comments.html