website emerges

I've avoided putting up a website for InnovaScapes Institute for awhile now, but thanks to Bill Daul's enthusiasm, decided to move ahead.  A tentative start to be sure, but try innovascapes.net and see what happens.  Should be at least a masthead and a couple of pictures, maybe even a statement about goals.

The goals at the moment talk heavily to our MISSION regarding INTRAPRENEURING, or maybe stated more fairly, to helping larger companies overcome their natural tendency to quit innovating.

The Institute is broader than this topic, but this one isn't bad for importance or impact.

I'm down at COFES this week in Scottsdale, where the difficulties of running a CAE company are obvious.  Design is being outsourced all over America.  Tragic.  Fits my lament of yesterday re the Business School fixation in this country instead of the Engineering Creativity that used to drive things.

The COFES team asked me to conduct a Sunday workshop around my new book PERMISSION DENIED.  That book has been described on my Intrapreneuring blog (see intrapreneuringinnovation.blogspot.com ), but might be worth mentioning here as well:

"PERMISSION DENIED: Odyssey of an Intrapreeneur" is a memoir of ten years at HP developing the Logic Analyzer business.  Early on, I was tapped by Gifford Pinchot in his ground-breaking book, Intrapreneuring, as a quintessential Intrapreneur.  That led to some notoriety -- on the Today Show, in the New York Times, a cover story in Business Week, etc. -- but the story in Pinchot's books was my first brush with Intrapreneuring.  Reflecting on it years later led me to realize that it only scratched the surface.  The next decade was educational -- to say the least -- about the tougher questions.  Musing about those, and writing about them in this new book, led me to describe two sets of rules -- sever rules for erstwhile entrepreneurs, and seven more for their managers.  These rules are worth consideration.

The rules are the last two succinct chapters.  The book, a mere 236 pp compared to the 656 pp book about HP, will be available from Amazon, searchable by Google, within eight weeks.  List price $17.95.

A better (and quicker) way is via LuluPress, available today at 15% discount (plus any coupons, which can often be another 20-30%), at the following:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/charles-h-house/permission-denied/paperback/product-20948639.html;jsessionid=B0C5C3DB9190216C9217EC70FB88DB45

If you buy it, read it.  And let me know your thoughts!