Innovation and Growth

Heat Map: Building a New Normal
As the nation adapts to a waning pandemic, business owners are adapting unused real estate.

Green Dreams: Investing in Cannabis
For entrepreneurs and investors, cannabis industry performance looks promising. Yet industry newcomers find it's not so easy to make money.

Forces That Thwart Innovation: Part II – Corporate Gravity
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,…

The Forces That Thwart Innovation: Part I
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…

Strategic Frontiers: Part I – Charting the Horizons
For those of you who are not familiar with the name Dick Fosbury, you may recognize the maneuver—a la strategy innovation—that made him famous: the Fosbury Flop.…

Why Your Business Won’t Be the Same in 5 Years: The Case for Strategy Innovation
IBM once made grocery scales and cheese slicers. Nokia made paper products. Both are now known for something entirely different, building the case for strategy…

Honoring Promises Produces Breakthrough Results
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…

How To Integrate Design Thinking Inside Your Enterprise Right Now
“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…

Innovation and Collaboration in Product Development With a Global Tire Manufacturer
The Challenge The vice president of product development for the Americas’ division of a major global tire manufacturer was committed to creating a world-class, innovative…

Corporate Culture As a Difference-Maker
We often talk about corporate culture as a competitive advantage that’s more impactful than strategy. It’s a valid assertion; and yet, it’s not the whole…

Data: What Does It Mean?
These days, it’s hard to imagine how companies would survive without the power of Big Data. The underlying relationships of things that are most important…

Conference on Innovation with Thought Leaders
A food product company had an initiative to create the company to be a leader in innovation. They were designing a conference on innovation and…