Business Innovation
Enterprise Innovations In Daily Operations
Too often we link the word “innovation” with “big.” However, innovation can be small, too, and those small innovations are important. Jeff Bezos, CEO of…
Strategic Innovation: Where Breakthrough Thinking Generates Breakthrough Innovation
Breakthrough thinking comes with challenging your frame of reference, re-examining your assumptions, what you call the “truth”, inspecting habits, and breaking through the “it-cannot-be-done” or…
Bitcoin, Blockchain, And You
On August 6, 1991, the World Wide Web went live. If most people could go back in time, they would do so to invest their…
Building Personalization That Entices Consumers
Starting this blog post with the question, “Remember when there were only three channels?” made sense until I remembered that for perhaps half of the…
The Business Person’s Guide to Adopting Design
We are all designers. Here are eight lessons about adopting design from the Digital Agency Network’s design thinking conference in Austin, Texas. Go talk and…
Innovation Isn’t The Problem. Execution Is.
Innovation isn’t easy. Not in the least. But it’s not usually the innovative idea that companies have a problem with. It’s the execution. There are plenty of…
Ten No-Brainers for User-Centered Design
The Digital Agency Network’s design thinking conference brought together some extraordinary design leaders and executives from some of the United States’ largest companies and the…
Use Design Thinking And Boost Revenues By 40 Percent
Once thought of as a nebulous, murky approach to solving a problem, business leaders have embraced design thinking as a creative way to innovate services…
Breakthrough Performance Poised To Conquer Pluto
On December 6, a piano-sized space probe was awoken from a nine-year slumber during which it traveled some 3 billion miles. Dubbed New Horizons, the probe has entered…
Compact Breakthrough From Skunk Works
When it was announced late last year, it was billed as a breakthrough that could transform civilization as we know it. It measures just 7…
Forces That Thwart Innovation: Part IV – Myopia
In our previous posts, we discussed how to unhook yourself — and your company — from the forces of corporate gravity in order to get big ideas off…
Forces that Thwart Innovation: Part III – Corporate Immune System
In our previous post, we discussed how to unhook yourself — and your company — from the forces of corporate gravity in order to get big…