Just a quick post to plug our friends at Forrester and Chris Townsend in particular.  He has just begun his blog centered on Innovation Management and Business Services.  I also recommend his research as well.
http://blogs.forrester.com/vendor_strategy/2008/12/test.html  
Chris, wish you the best and may the best ideas win.
Tom Hochstatter

I am flying home from a west coast sales swing tonight and I read a blurb in USA Today mentioning a job swap between Google and Proctor & Gamble.  It appears that two Tide detergent product managers swapped with two “officials” from Google since January.  Not certain it was front page Money section worthy however, […]

One of our clients, Littlearth, Inc. who is a very small innovator is on the move I am happy to report.  Because of their persistence we are seeing real interest from a number of firms that want to partner with them in a very strategic way.  It  is rewarding to see how Fluid is now […]

I just received a report out from ATKearney on (Open) Innovation Leaders.  You can get the full report here.
They researched via an online survey more than 250 companies and determined there is as much science as there is art in shaping your Innovation Management agenda.  The theme is externalization and collaboration.  Here at Fluid Innovation we […]

We are in them midst of a site redesign so I can’t post our latest whitepaper.  I wanted to share a teaser and ask that if you would like the full version just email me and I’ll shoot it over to you…
Abstract:  “The Weightless Economy”
Without any of the fanfare that has accompanied the phenomenon of […]

Our burgeoning Open Innovation Industry continues to grow. 
We held an industry first Forum in Chicago this week with a number of F500 firms, Open Innovation industry service providers and folks from the Tech Research Industry.  We consciously held the attendee size to just a handful of folks for the initial meeting to ensure a candid […]

I have blogged about this topic recently but feel compelled to revisit until I think senior executives at my clients and prospective clients (the general population) share a broader meaning of Open Innovation (OI).  It’s a big term with a nested description and my fear is that the term gets “jargon’ed” into meaning nothing because people […]

Of course I can’t get into too many details but I just wanted to share a couple of data points within our business that continue to reinforce that open innovation is on the right trajectory and I want to offer the uninitiated to get on board now.
I blogged about the “Fortune 1,000,000″ as being my […]

I know it sounds uninformed of me or even rhetorical to ask the question to my readers, but in my experience I’ve found the obvious often gets overlooked.  My children have been constant, if not refreshing, reminders to ask the obvious because sometimes things just aren’t THAT obvious to the uninitiated.
I don’t know who buys […]

I just registered for the Licensing Executive Society’s annual conference in October.  This will be my first annual event for LES and I am looking forward to the various topics on licensing and meeting the leading thinkers in the space.  That and playing in their tennis tournament.  Maybe next year I’ll rank to sit on […]