Comments on: Connecting Innovators

By: Roisin Markham

Roisin Markham — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:38:53 +0000

Great to see a discussion of this nature.If the choice is to go the YAN route I'd encourage a broader term of enagement so seekers and solvers can connect. This is a rapidly moving area. Which is as much about creative lateral thinking as anything else. As a facilitator, solver and catalst of inward innovation neither of these two networks work for me.Collaboration is easy but the framework to facilitate it has to be right.I think http://www.hypos.com and http://www.addictlab.com are good examples.

By: Brendan Hughes

Brendan Hughes — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:37:24 +0000

Thanks for the comments guys. Niall, I agree that there is a need for measurable outcomes from such an initiative. Bringing ideas to market would be one, but I guess that for every idea there are very very few that actually do make it to market. It might be a bit like a dating site – plenty of encounters, but few marriages. We'll have to think about the kinds of measure that are put in place – these will be driven by the objectives of course.Roisin, thanks for the examples. Are you sure that the first one is correct?

By: brendanhughes

brendanhughes — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:37:24 +0000

By: Roisin Markham

Roisin Markham — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:46:30 +0000

By: nialldevitt

nialldevitt — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:23:45 +0000

Hi Brendan, I was really hoping that people would start to pose these types of questions on here so thank you….. I think the simple answer to your question is yes but let me make a more general observation.The problem as I see it for many initiatives on-line or otherwise is the talk v action challenge, people will engage once they can see that their is a defined and speedy outcome. People are crying out for new ways to engage provided that their is a result at the end but unfortunately we continue to suffer from the lots of talk with very little action syndrome. I think if the network could speed up bringing ideas to market in a comprehensible way, it would be needed, valuable and a winner. It not a case of what's out there, it's more a case of how can we do faster, better and more effectively. We need as much “get ahead” stuff now as is possible.Great post!Niall