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Participate in the 2019 Global State of Innovation Survey
We are excited to invite you (those of you in management) to participate in new and exciting research being conducted to identify what drives innovation in organizations and the tools, measures, and talent strategies [...]
Public Offering of Innovation Acceleration Process Workshop
Do you have a process that allows leaders and employees to suggest and develop innovation ideas? The Innovation Acceleration Process program will focus on processes and tools needed to brainstorm, prioritize, and develop innovative ideas. [...]
30% Discount for San Francisco Innovation Master Class
Would you like to connect with more innovation experts? Are you ready to expand your role as an innovation leader? If so, then I encourage you to join us for the 6th Annual Innovation Master [...]
10 Talent Strategies to Support Cultures of Innovation
Companies large and small are racing to digitize their operations and to find the new technology in their domain that will allow them to disrupt their competition and find new markets. The companies that succeed [...]
Talent Strategies Needed to Support Cultures of Innovation
I was honored to present and be part of a panel discussion at one of Silicon Valley’s legacy innovation centers, PARC, a Xerox Company in Palo Alto, July 26, 2018. I began my presentation [...]
Does the innovative ideas of your employees get stuck?
For many organizations, there is not a transparent and reliable process to allow employees to suggest and develop innovative ideas. Sometimes there is a process, but it falters with management decision-making. Participants in this [...]
How Silicon Valley Works…Ecosystems Breaking Traditions for Transformations
Many business leaders don’t get Silicon Valley. They know the reputation, the high-tech giants, the casual dress, the innovation that fails and succeeds in Silicon Valley and the unicorns. But the common theme among [...]
New case study links InnovationOne Health Index to improved innovation. Nine lessons from case study.
In their experience as academics and consultants, Dr. C. Brooke Dobni and Dr. Mark Klassen have concluded that many organizations need something to improve their organization’s innovation, but they are not quite sure what. Through [...]
CEOs Must Do These 3 things to Turbocharge Innovation
Check out our article in Chief Executive Magazine, with Ataman Ozyildirim of The Conference Board, "CEOs Must Do These 3 Things to Turbocharge Innovation". Across the globe, one business challenge has the ear of CEOs [...]
Wall Street to CEOs: Disrupt Your Industry or Else!
“Ten years ago, innovation was based on features and functions,” says William Ruh, chief digital officer at General Electric . “Now it’s about your business model and transforming your industry.” Before, companies could innovate by [...]
What Separates the Leading Innovative Companies from the Rest?
Why are some companies continually coming up with new, dynamic products and services, technologies and business models? And, why are others always late to the party? Why do some companies lead with one innovation, and [...]
Innovation Isn’t an Idea Problem
By David Burkus at the Harvard Business Review, July 23, 2013. When most organizations try to increase their innovation efforts, they always seem to start from the same assumption: “we need more ideas.” They’ll start [...]
Haphazard innovation fails. Six steps for superior innovation results!
Some 170 of the world’s largest companies (as measured by revenue), have a declining return on investment for their innovation projects, according to research. Why? Many companies under pressure to show that they can disrupt [...]
Strategy Shift: Innovation and risk as the foundation for strategy and financial success.
Organizations around the world are facing ever-changing customer preferences, generational shifts, the need to digitize their operations, and disruptions from well-funded start-ups outside of their domains. In our experience consulting with firms, we have learned [...]
Digitizing Your Company? Success Depends Largely on One Factor…
Empirical evidence has long shown that transparent, collaborative and adaptive cultures empower business and financial success by enabling innovation.[i] Now companies are learning that if they do not have innovative cultures their digitization strategies languish. [...]
Seven Traits of Agile and Innovative Leaders
Dominance used to be the main criteria CEOs and Chief Human Resources Officers used to determine who would make a great leader. Dominance and achievement were the most reliable characteristics CEOs looked for to [...]
Suffering from a lax work culture? The answer is in the numbers.
A business executive complained to me about the lax work culture shown by his employees. “Everyone leaves the office by 4:30,” he said. “Where is their commitment to our mission? Where is their commitment to [...]
6 Tips to Focus Employees on What to Do—And What to Stop
One of the toughest challenges facing any CEO is rallying the organization to effectively execute new strategies. Many business pundits wisely encourage CEOs to use the company’s mission and higher purpose to appeal to the [...]