Innovation Follows Strategy

18 years ago

How do you tie innovation to strategy? Professor Christie Nordhielm from the University of Michigan has developed what I consider…

The Not-So-Fuzzy Front End

18 years ago

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

In Search of Bad Ideas

18 years ago

Mitch Ditkoff notes a common misperception regarding bad ideas: "One of the inevitable things you will hear at a brainstorming…

Young it Down

18 years ago

Technology improves our lives in many ways, but overreliance on it can cause us to "dumb down." Technology has a…

Innovation vs. Leadership

18 years ago

Which is easier to learn: innovation or leadership? That is one of my favorite questions to ask during keynotes and…

Innovation Subversives

18 years ago

My advice: stop evangelizing and start doing. Use a proven innovation method on a mainstream issue or product and let…

Funding Innovation

18 years ago

From my experience, there are two choices in how to fund innovation: invention or development. Invention means the actual genesis…

Lessons from Improv

18 years ago

I've come full circle on the notion of improvisation as a source of innovation. I just finished a three day…

Innovation for the Ages

18 years ago

If 6th graders can learn to innovate in real time, so can the business world. That is why companies are…

Innovation Roundtable

18 years ago

The Marketing Science Institute has formed a new Innovation Roundtable to explore common issues and challenges in the world of…