TY - SER AU - Birkinshaw Julian TI - Five Myths of Innovation PY - 0000///0 CY - PB - Winter 2011 KW - Innovation, Organization Development KW - Innovation N2 - The article discusses highlights of a study that determines the process of innovation in 13 global companies that sought to engage their employees in the process and use online tools to facilitate and improve the quality and quantity of ideas. The study discovered that many managers were relatively good at generating new ideas but their performance dropped for every successive stage of the chain. It also notes that most companies fail to think through the consequences of putting on ideation workshops. Some problems that come with developing online innovation forums are discussed, including waning interest of users and posting of irrelevant ideas UR - http://192.168.6.13/libsuite/mm_files/Articles/AR12374.pdf ER -