I read a great blog post today from a man named Hutch Carpenter, who wrote about sustaining innovation and discontinuous innovation and the effect it has on different types of organizations.  It also discusses two types of business models to deal with innovation:  Integrated and Separate.

I found this article to be very interesting as it highlighted Motorola, a company which fumbled the transition between analog and digital cell phones (discontinuous innovation).  He also talks about Whirlpool and 3M, which foster innovation through the daily work environment.  And finally, no discussion of innovation would be complete without an analysis of Google and their “20% employee innovation time” business climate.

Take a read, let me know what you think.  I think of all my MBA studies, these types of analyses are my favorite to read; hopefully we’ll focus a bit more on innovation before the ME class is finished.

http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/crowdsourced-or-elite-unit-innovation/

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