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.
Meta Description: [ Innovation Consultants, Breakthrough Solutions to Critical Problems or Opportunities ]

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
Meta Description: [ Innovation and Creativity tools, techniques and training to build a greater innovation competency to help organizations develop more innovative strategies, new products, services and processes in order to leverage growth and bottom line results. ]

Design Conference - Annual conference in Norway dedicated to creativity, innovation and design in the business world.
Meta Description: [ InnoTown Innovation Conference in Ålesund, Norway: The business conference that makes you go WOW!- A door-opener to increased innovation - A pitstop for mental refueling- An arena for change and improvement- A meetingplace for fresh thinking - A networking haven. ]

Innovation Management - An interesting website that attempts to connect people together with a strong focus on innovation, innovation management or idea creation.
Meta Description: [ IM-BOOT Creative People Worldwide ]

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.
Meta Description: [ BRINQ - Innovation & toys from the Base of the Pyramid (BOP), including BOP entrepreneurs & strategies, BoP Protocol, disruptive innovations, models to combat poverty, & more ]

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 Management could rescue knowledge management from oblivion by BaseX analyst Jon Spira

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 all ideas for which patent protection has not yet been sought.

BPM Helps Grace Chemical Innovate - eWeek - Case study: Imaginatik's Idea Central software streamlines innovation at W.R. Grace's Performance Chemicals division
Meta Description: [ Case study: Imaginatik's Idea Central software streamlines innovation at W.R. Grace's Performance Chemicals division. ]

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.

Corporate Innovation Blog - A daily blog - 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.
Meta Description: [ Articles,insights, opinions and research on Corporate Innovation ]

CREATEProject - web site for the European Project named CREATE, Creative Processes for Innovation in Enterprises
Meta Description: [ Web site for CREATE Project ]

Creative Advantage - Offers a comprehensive approach to strategic innovation which integrates training, facilitation, leadership development, team building, brainstorming and new product development.
Meta Description: [ Delivering great results through innovation.. ]

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.

Get Employees to Brainstorm Online - FORTUNE - Anne Fisher describes how companies are encouraging their employees to produce innovations.
Meta Description: [ Business and financial news delivered throughout the day along with investing, financial, CEO, technology, and company information and trends, including FORTUNE lists and corporate snapshots. ]

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.
Meta Description: [ The corporate suggestion box isn't what it used to be, and for one company, that has proved to be a very good thing. Also: why finance wants IT systems to get along; corporate security suffers from divide-and-fail syndrome; more. ]

Ideadollar - Turning ideas into products - Although IdeaDollar is now a dead and defunct internet company, the concept behind this company is still incredibly interesting - and may yet have its place in commerce at some point. Companies like IdeaDollar were the first to take idea management to the public - capturing ideas, paying submitters a nominal (virtual) amount and then attempting to develop the good ideas as a product development company.

IdeaFlow - Creativity and Innovation blog offers white papers and links to related sites.
Meta Description: [ Discussion about innovation and creativity -- new products, strategy, open innovation, commercialization of technologies, patents, idea generation, customer input in the NPD process, more. ]

Imaginatik - Offers software and research in innovation. Features company profile, description of services, articles, and contacts.

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.

InnovateEurope 2005 - Provides information on this innovation conference to be held in London, England. Offers list of speakers, quotes, testimonials, and contacts.

Innovation - Boston Consulting Group (BCG) have recently started coming up with some very interesting articles on innovation, and although they don't seem to have an innovation specific section to their site - or to their consulting practice - doing a quick search for innovation on their publications section will reveal some great nuggets of information.

Innovation Bootcamp - Offers information on seminars, brochures, faculty, and contacts.

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 and innovation. Features call for speakers, registration and venue information. Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Meta Description: [ IIR's Innovation Convergence 2006 ]

InnovationTools - A portal that features a collection of software tools, articles, news, and links for developing creative solutions for businesses.
Meta Description: [ InnovationTools is your source for the best articles, tools and resources on business innovation, creativity and brainstorming. Additional resources on enterprise innovation, idea management and mind mapping, plus much more ]

404 KMWorld Magazine - Idea management: Everyone's an innovator - KM World looks at some of the emerging software solutions for idea management, and has a nice mini-case study on Sun Life Financial.

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

The Innovation Resource Consulting Group - Consulting firm led by author Robert Cooper dedicated to helping companies accelerate growth by improving their total approach to making new ideas happen.
Meta Description: [ Tucker is a speaker, author and consultant. As a futurist and innovation authority, Tucker travels the globe delivering powerful presentations. ]

The Miami Herald - Daydreaming can pay off if employees share their ideas - An interview with Charles Thompson of the Creative Group, talking about the value that companies can get through idea sharing and a formalised idea management program

What is Idea Management ? - CMO Magazine - An excellent primer on idea management explaining what it is, how it can help you, and how to get started
Meta Description: [ Idea management is the collection, development and selection of business-focused ideas that deliver value to an organization. ]

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.