Fostering Innovation

Tonight I am moderating an OSEF panel on innovation, more specifically, how do you foster innovation.

How do companies create an atmosphere of innovation? How do they encourage their people to innovate? Companies like IDEO have become famous for their culture of innovation. And of course everyone not currently under a rock or dead knows how Google innovates.

So how do other companies innovate in these lean times?

The CIO has a great posting about that, I encourage everyone to read it, I won't bother trying to summarize it here.