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In a number of blogposts I will examine and pay forward insights, ideas, models, knowledge and more on the subject Innovation and Communication.

Think a few moments about Innovation and Communication – soon you realize that the concepts are interlinked in many ways. If it wasn’t for communication we would not have as many innovations. If Einstein didn’t communicate his theories we wouldn’t understand or appreciate them, if Apple didn’t communicate the message “Think Different” – we would probably not view the ground breaking products in the same way and the company’s employees would for sure not have the same “Geist” to go for the cutting edge and simplicity of their developments. And certainly, if it wasn’t for new smart social tools – consumers wouldn’t be able to be co-creative in the process of improving and making new products, services and more.

There are three core levels on Innovation and Communication.

- To innovate new ways to communicate.

- To communicate innovations.

- To use communication in order to innovate.

I am certain that you may come to think about a few more. However I will focus on the three mentioned above.

Every day I am both stumbling over great cases and working on dimensions of Innovation and Communication.

Today many are seeking the perfect way to facilitate and ignite innovations. Communication is often used as a tool. We have seen U.S President Obama speak of Innovation in his State of the Union. As a follow up the White House made a Q&A on YouTube about innovation in the 2011 budget. Also there is an Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation using the blog as platform.

The Swedish Government recently held talks in Stockholm on how to ignite more innovation in Sweden. And the European Union are launching an Innovation Union with the same aspirations – since more innovations may give way to more growth. Some ways to use fairly new tools of communication for the sake of spreading the message about innovation.

Below is the trailer for EU:s Innovation Union. It´s great as an ambition. But, they only communicate What buzzwords we can associate with Innovation. We need more – we need to get emotionally attached and the Why – that why that motivates people to make innovations sprout from European minds and hearts and in harmony with common needs and challenges to overcome.

The race for more innovation is on and so is the use of communication to manifest the union between innovation and the urge to improve our world.

Stay tuned for more about Innovation and Communication.

Anders Bjers

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Alla undrar hur det egentligen gick till när Obama skapade en kampanj som bröt alla mönster och konventioner för hur en presidentvals kampanj ska fungera. Ett svar är David Plouffs bok “The audacity to Win“. Antagligen ligger den på många svenska politikers och kampanjmakares sängbord i dessa dagar. Det svenska valet kommer självklart att både söka plocka russinen ur Obamas kampanj kaka men också jämföras i ljuset av den kampanj som bedrevs så framgångsrikt och innovativt. Frågan kommer också vara – blir detta ett “webb val”?

Den stora skillnaden är att människor kan donera pengar till en kandidat i USA. Hur översätter vi den typen av engagemang i ett svenskt perspektiv?

I mitten av november förra året höll en av nyckelpersonerna i Obamas kampanj en föreläsning på Googles huvudkontor i Mountainview, Ca. Även om videon har några månader på nacken så är det fortfarande aktuell. Och många har inte sett den..

Dan Siroker, Director of Analytics for the Obama Presidential campaign, berättar om hur de använde data tillsammans med verktyg som Google analytics och Website Optimizer för att öka engagemang och donationer från besökare på Obama kampanjens webbsidor. Han radar upp ett antal viktiga lärdomar från kampanjen som kan användas på många andra områden.

Plouff beskriver i boken hur central webben var från dag ett och att man bejakade gräsrotstanken från början. Obamas kampanj har av proffstyckare kallats för en kampanj på “sterioder”. Men de dopade aldrig sig utan anammade helt naturligt istället den inneboende kraft som infinner sig när “all the nobodies blir The Somebodies” och man gav anledningar och möjligheter att medverka och donera små summor pengar. Jag gillar öppenhet, äkthet och innovationskraft, när modet att göra annorlunda bejakas och används som ledande pricip i något så stort och viktigt som ett val.

Men nu Dan Siroker…

Best / Anders

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