Business Innovation

At the recent Fortune Global CEO Forum in October, the chief executive officers of Honeywell, Marriott, and Synchrony came together to share how their companies…

Mention an innovation center, and the response is polarizing. “It’s a waste of money,” or “I have no idea what they actually do” are warning signs…

In our previous discussion, we identified that while it’s essential to build your innovation initiative around the Four Pillars of Innovation for Creating and Sustaining Growth,…

Opposites may attract, but in business, people who are very similar in characteristics and behavior often are drawn to each other. Consequently, without realizing it, project…

Accidents happen. That statement has become so true for most of us, we rarely—if ever–examine what it means and implies. In response to “accidents happen”, safety…

Organizations both large and small understand that innovation — and innovation consulting — is essential to unlocking uncharted possibilities and delivering opportunities for accelerating growth. Recently, we…

They were the Super Bowl underdogs. No one expected them to win that year. At the start of the big game, the team refused to do…

This article originally appeared in the Summer 2016 Gaming & Leisure Magazine. On the surface, embedding innovation within an organization appears to be a relatively straightforward…

We typically think of breakthroughs as something born in a flash of brilliance. It’s a powerful new insight or a revolutionary new product that catapults us…

“In school, we’d take field trips to hospitals, and we were taught to become the patient,” Joe Gebbia, co-founder of Airbnb recalls from his days…

The CIO of a global retail apparel company had an imperative for innovation management. He saw improving IT processes as a lever to elevate the…

About a year ago, I discovered for myself the simple joy of espresso.  I quickly gave up drip coffee for lattes, and lattes for espressos…