Business Innovation
Innovation Process Management—Rapidly Changing Course
A household products company needed to transform its dispensing technology to deliver significant and sustainable financial performance. They needed new product innovations to compete in…
Barriers Are Fuel For Innovation
The pressure to deliver blockbuster drugs is immense in the pharmaceutical industry. Blockbuster drugs take years to develop, and it’s easy for innovators to focus…
Healthcare Innovation: A Transformation Of Safety
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…
Game Changing Innovation
In his book Where Good Ideas Come From, Stephen Berlin Johnson gives fascinating examples of innovations that came from someone connecting multiple ideas and inventions from…
More Than an Idea: Factors That Make or Break a Start-Up
Thousands of enthusiastic and determined entrepreneurs start new businesses every year; it’s one of the best ways to make the world a better place and…
What is the Real Power of Social Media?
As most of us are aware, social media has a huge influence on our society today. For these reasons, it has become important to build…
Why invest to develop your network?
In business, you need to establish and grow a network – but why? What does a network actually provide for you and your success? In…
Design Thinking: Prototyping Perfection
In our previous discussion, it was revealed that, yes; you too are a designer — regardless of your job title or function. That said, one of…
Design Thinking: Creating Results
Previously, we established that those of us who seek to solve problems by creating impactful solutions, regardless of job title or function is, intrinsically, designers. We…
Design Thinking: Everyone Is A Designer
Before exploring the hallmarks of design thinking, let’s first consider this: Who is a designer? Typically — early in the process of innovation consulting — when I…
Being Visible in the Digital Age
Being digital, going digital, working digitally…… This idea is on the agenda of most organizations today. Individuals also accept that this is the way our…
Stop That Innovation Project Now
Enterprise innovation projects are sometimes complex and lengthy efforts; so when it’s time to consider a no-go, it’s a tough call. When innovation works, it can…