Shifting the Focus of Your Idea Challenges During the COVID-19 Pandemic
In the past two months, we have seen a significant increase in awareness of the business challenges associated with resp...

The Only Way to Understand (Innovation) Success is by Measuring Failure
Success is a scarcity, especially in innovation. In fact, one of the few certainties in life is that everything will fai...

How Do You Create an Innovation Culture?
This is the second part of a two-part series in building an innovation culture. Make sure to read Part 1: What You Need ...

A culture of innovation? It all starts with hiring
Creating a culture that has a thirst for and thrives on innovation is the holy grail of business today. But it’s not as ...

How the 'Not Invented Here' Syndrome Impacts Innovation Success
Getting past the 'corporate immune system' Imagine the scene. A warm summer’s day. The tree-lined slopes of gentle hills...

Indispensable Employee Attributes for Successful Innovation in Your Business
We all know that old, wooden idea suggestion box that was flamboyantly presented during the Q1 openings but ended up tuc...

3 Perspectives for Developing an Open Innovation Culture
The idea that an open culture can be engineered or that cultural change can be outsourced is tempting. So tempting, in f...

3 Perspectives for Approaching Open Innovation
While artists – bloggers included – do not typically disclose where they get their inspiration from, I will share this o...

Why Incremental Innovation Isn't Enough
Innovation is easy. Or rather, certain kinds of innovation are. Faced with the challenge of improving a product or servi...

Why Diversity Matters in Innovation Management
"Oh, I've never thought about it that way!" Have you ever said this to a friend or a colleague at work? Or has anybody e...

Why Failure is So Important for a Successful Innovation Strategy
What good could possibly come out of failure? Harrison Ford was a failure as an actor for years. Twelve publishers turne...