The Not-So-Fuzzy Front End

3 years ago

A best practice at Fortune 100 companies is to see the front end of the pipeline not as fuzzy, but as crystal…

Tempting Innovation

3 years ago

Jeffrey Phillips makes a nice distinction between the various ways to adopt ideas of others outside your organization. In his post, The sincerest form…

The Story of Dogs and Pigeons

3 years ago

It seems that everybody is preoccupied, to a certain extent, with the newly available AI open platforms. This, made me…

Innovation Under the Threat of a Recession?

3 years ago

Cutting budgets of new projects, whether they are under the bucket of “innovation” or not is commonplace in times of…

Innovation Follows Strategy

3 years ago

Innovation that is done in the context of business strategy tends to be more focused, efficient, and business-model relevant. Innovation should…

Innovation Muscle

3 years ago

The best Fortune 100 companies see innovation as an ongoing capability, not a one time event.  These companies work hard…

10 New Year Resolutions for Innovation Leaders

3 years ago

This blog marks its 10th anniversary this year. “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s…

Rebooting Your Innovation Effort

3 years ago

Imagine you just completed an innovation program, but things went terribly wrong. So wrong, in fact, that the boss won’t allow…

Too Much of a Good Thing

3 years ago

Can you innovate too much? After all, new ideas fuel organic growth. One would think an organization would be happy to have…

Innovating in Human Resources

3 years ago

SIT - Systematic Inventive Thinking is not only for inventing new products and services. You can apply it to a variety of…