Picture your work calendar. It probably has large colored boxes blocking off sections of your days for certain activities. There’s a project meeting from 9:01 a.m. to 10:59 a.m. Then back to your desk to answer emails from 11:01 a.m. to noon. From there it’s off to lunch with a colleague to discuss quarterly performance. [...]
Many mid-cap and large companies long for more innovation to stimulate growth in a challenging, and fast-changing global business environment. A PwC Pulse Survey of 246 CEOs shows that 97% of business leaders see innovation as a top priority for their businesses.[i] While many executives want to ignite the innovation of their employees, they struggle [...]
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 [...]
