Dr. Brooke Dobni provided the keynote address on innovation at the 60th Annual Convention of the Saskatchewan Heavy Construction Association. Dr. Dobni's address covered "The Role of Innovation in Business - the What, Why and How." As part of his keynote address, Dr. Dobni's team surveyed members of the Association, prior to the address, to [...]
Last November we published an assessment on HBR.org to help readers diagnose the extent to which their organizations create conditions that favor successful innovation. About 1,500 people completed the assessment, representing organizations across industries at different stages of maturity. Despite enormous attention placed on improving innovation effectiveness, 80% of participants thought their companies were underperforming on this [...]
Digital business models are a bit of a misnomer. It’s not digital technology that defines them; it’s their ability to create exponential value. The music and video industries, for example, weren’t redefined by converting analog to digital formats. Just ask Sony about Minidisc players and Netflix about their DVD business. To create exponential value, it’s [...]
Startup founders often feel pressure to chase rapid growth at any cost. So it is notable that one new program urges them to think small. In an era of startup accelerators, the Good Work Institute, a free business-education program for entrepreneurs with modest-sized firms, might best be called a decelerator. Run by Etsy.org, the philanthropic [...]
Innovation continues to be a hot topic with CEOs. According to Mike Maddox, founder and CEO of Maddock Douglas, 84 percent of CEOs believe they need to improve innovation within their companies. We have found that creating an organizational culture of innovation is the foundation for sustaining ongoing innovation within a company, maintaining a competitive [...]
This is a blog devoted to problems of managing innovation generally, and open innovation in particular. Before I define that term, let me introduce myself. I’m a professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas Business School, and a former manager in the computer disk drive industry in Silicon Valley. Read more. Henry Chesbrough is a professor at [...]
Contrary to the conventional wisdom, innovation not only can be inspired, it can be managed and measured. “We are looking forward to our presentation and moderating of the hot topic discussions,” says InnovationOne founder Dr. Brooke Dobni. “Our long-standing research, and benchmarking with the Fortune 1000 clearly shows that when leaders set a focus area [...]
InnovationOne Managing Partner Victor Assad will be presenting the “Six Traits of Highly Innovative Organizations and Human Resources’ Role in Fostering Innovation” to the LEHRN Field Trip at the Glenn Taylor Innovation Corp on February 26th in Mankato, MN. “Our research over the past 15 years--and with the Fortune 1000 study--clearly shows that highly innovative [...]
It’s no secret: innovation is difficult for well-established companies. By and large, they are better executors than innovators, and most succeed less through game-changing creativity than by optimizing their existing businesses. Yet hard as it is for such organizations to innovate, large ones as diverse as Alcoa, the Discovery Group, and NASA’s Ames Research Center [...]
