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 talking about the need to “think outside the box” or “blue sky” thinking in order to find a few ideas [...]
When should a company use ambitious, stretch goals (sometimes called “Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals” or “BHAGs”), and when is it better to improve incrementally? New research on goal setting is providing important guidance that can significantly improve a company’s bottom line, increase innovation, and perhaps save its very existence. Let’s be clear, goal setting improves [...]
Authors contend that switching from short-term gains to a long view improves profits and sales By John Simons, The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 27, 2016. Should corporate leaders focus on short-term gains or take the long view? Adherents of long-term management will find potent ammunition in a new study from a pair of management researchers who [...]
By Susan Adams, Forbes Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, 64, is best known for his 1997 book The Innovator’s Dilemma, which introduced the concept of “disruptive innovation.” He explained how cheaper, simpler or unexpected products and services can bring down big companies like U.S. Steel, Xerox and Digital Equipment. He runs a nonprofit think [...]
Sponsors hope everyday ‘makers’ can jump-start progress in smartphone voice recognition, carbon emissions and new uses for canned tuna BY ROBERT LEE HOTZ, The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 10, 2016 Edgar Sarmiento of Bogotá, Colombia, had a new degree in design, a head full of ideas, and no place to put them into practice. [...]
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 [...]
Companies often contact us at InnovationOne because their long-range financial forecasts are on a southbound train. Or, they are facing fierce competition from industry disruptors that have a new technology, newly applied technology in their industry, or a better business model. Sometimes their innovation projects have not produced tangible results. Or, they tried a new, [...]
InnovationOne Founder and Managing Partner, C. Brooke Dobni, Ph.D., will be a Keynote Speaker at ISPIM’s Innovation Forum in Toronto, Canada, March 19th to 22nd, 2017. His keynote will be “Innovate and Thrive! Measuring and Managing Innovative Effectiveness for Sustainable Competitive Success.” Dr. Dobni (Brooke) will disclose the organizational dimensions of innovation effectiveness and the [...]
If you read the business press, you might believe that only start-ups can be innovative. Start-ups certainly have the advantage of agility, focus and speed. Without the burden of ongoing operations, customer relations, and Wall Street investors to manage, they can focus all of their attention on innovation. Large companies can also be extraordinarily successful [...]
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 [...]
