InnoCentive Seeks Experienced Innovation Consultants

I completed my first month as InnoCentive’s “VP Strategic Consulting & Chief Innovation Evangelist.”  In a short period of time, we made excellent progress on a number of fronts and will be announcing our plans shortly.  My next task is to build my team.

And maybe that is you!

I am looking for a number of highly skilled innovation experts who want to help me launch this exciting new venture.  In short, I am looking to hire people who are passionate about…

• delivering innovation consulting to several clients at the same time. Our unique “catalyst” model reduces the amount of time spent with any one client while improving results.
• participating in sales activities of the company. Although this involves some lead generation (no cold calling), most leads will be generated by a dedicated sales team. The consultant’s primary sales role is focused on proposal development.
• creating intellectual property and methodologies that will help the consulting team be more effective and ensure consistency of delivery.

If you want to get a sense of my high level innovation philosophy, please read the following articles:

• The 3 levels of innovation & the innovation capability
• How to create a culture of innovation
• An example of innovation in action (pdf)

You can learn much more about the role from the InnoCentive Innovation Consultant Job Description

If you have questions, write me at steve@24-7innovation.com.

I want YOU for innovation!

P.S. As of December 31, 2009, we hired all of the people we need for now.  We expect to start hiring more people in the middle of 2010.  Feel free to write if you are interested and we will keep your resume on file.

InnoCentive’s Chief Innovation Evangelist

I am thrilled to announce that as of July 1st, I will become the “Chief Innovation Evangelist” for InnoCentive.

If you are not aware, InnoCentive is an incredible company that is changing the world.  They are leaders in the Open Innovation space.  If you have a problem you want to solve, you can post the challenge on their website, and their network of 160,000 solvers will work to find a solution. Although it started off as a tool to accelerate R&D for a pharmaceutical company, it has expanded into solving all types of problems ranging from corporate challenges to social issues.

InnoCentive is incentive-based innovation.  The person who provides the solution gets a monetary reward that is established up front.  For example, if someone can find a biomarker for ALS, they will get $1 million.

There are some amazing success stories.  One well-publicized challenge was the removal of oil that remained trapped after the Exxon Valdez accident back in 1989.  A solver applied his knowledge of the cement industry to the challenge and won $20,000…and solved a problem that perplexed scientists for two decades.  Watch the video…

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I’ll discuss more about my specific role over the coming weeks.  To give you a clue…my corporate title is “VP Strategic Consulting.”

I am thrilled to be part of an organization that is changing the world, one challenge at a time.

P.S. I will continue to write books and give speeches in addition to my InnoCentive work.

Innovation Blogs – We’re #15

The blog you are reading is #15 on Blogrank’s list of innovation blogs.  I am in good company, with Information Week and Richard Branson in the top 10.

What I find interesting is that they know more about my website and traffic than I do.  For example, I did not know that I am the #2 innovation blog based on RSS subscribers.  Sign up for my RSS feed here and help me get even more subscribers.  You won’t regret it.

I am #9 for unique visitors, although I know from Google analytics that I am getting more traffic than they list.  And I learned that I have 919 pages posted on this blog.  I didn’t know that.  I have over 7,500 incoming links.

And drum roll please…I am #1 on Technorati’s blog rank. Admittedly, I am not quite sure what that means, but it sounds good.

Now I just have to figure out what to do in order to get in the top 10 of the innovation blogs.

There are some excellent innovation blogs here that I will start reading, and I encourage you to do the same.

P.S. We are now #13.  #1 here we come.

New Literary Agent

News flash…I just signed on with Bonnie Solow as my literary agent. She represents big name authors like Jack Canfield and T. Harv Eker.  I am honored to be working with her.  We already have a two book deal in the works.  More details soon.

Mark Your Calendars

This summer, I will be giving speeches around Europe.  Some will be private events and others will be open to the public.  Regardless, I will be taking time to meet up with people during my travels.

On May 26th, I will be speaking in Copenhagen at a “Happiness at Work Conference.”  On June 1st, I am speaking in Athens, Greece.  Other countries are quickly being added to the list.

If you are a European corporate executive or conference organizer who is interested in bringing innovation to your organization during my visit there, please write for availability using our contact form.

Hope to see you this summer in Europe.

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