Reading Time: 3 minutes Member Login Username: Password: If you’re looking ahead to ramping up innovation efforts by 2020, you’re moving too slow. But don’t worry. Our latest Google Hangout, Developing Your Innovation Program Goals in 2016, featuring... Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutesInnovation is no longer a sideline effort or something companies can hope to luck into – if it ever was. As we enter 2016 we approach an innovation crossroads, where companies have two choices: Change their thinking and thrive Refuse to adapt... Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOn October 21, Brightidea announced its Fall 2015 release. Over a year in the making, the release heralds in a new era of innovation management. The focus of the release was the introduction of the industry’s first-ever software designed to... Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesOver the last few years I have seen design thinking tools used in all types of situations – as a management philosophy, an operational plan and a way to implement a “sexier” version of continuous improvement. Now design thinking is... Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesManaging Corporate Innovation Programs is not easy and finding the right people who can lead the innovation initiative to success is not easy. It takes a unique set of skills to be a RockStar Innovation Leader. Just what kinds of skills does an... Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesBusinesses that are innovating regularly (and well) are the envy of those who know innovation is important, but not how to “get there.” A host of challenges can stand in the way – not least of which is a lack of understanding of the... Read more
It’s never easy to build internal buy-in around something new in an enterprise. And that difficulty is compounded when there’s an air of uncertainty around the how, when and why the ‘new something’ is being done. Innovation programs feel the brunt of this resistance,... Read more
AXA Chairman and CEO Henri de Castries knows the commitment it takes to innovate: “We will be able to transform innovation into business success only if we put all our energy in it,” he stated in a news piece on the global insurance/asset management company’s... Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt took three years for marketing intelligence giant Nielsen to admit their organically growing innovation program wasn’t taking the company far enough fast enough. As Stephanie Hegarty, Innovation Program Manager at Nielsen, puts it, “We... Read more
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe theme of this year’s Birds of a Feather (BOF) event, hosted by Dell in Austin, Texas, was “The Discipline of Innovation.” Discipline might seem an unlikely component of innovation, which many view as the byproduct of a creative spark that... Read more
Gretchen Hoffman
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