Innovating To Win

Starting Over – Spreading Innovation

2011-06-06T02:36:15-04:00

One of the great things about my job is the conversations I get to have with top-flight innovation practitioners from around the globe. It’s exciting exchanging ideas with people who are passionate about innovation and understand the import and impact...

Connecting Innovation Dots

2010-11-08T09:30:00-05:00

On his blog Medinnovation, Dr. Richard Reece discusses the interconnectedness of innovation across domains of innovation activity in this post. It’s interesting to see his commentary on 10 coming medical innovations in this regard. It is doubly so because this...

Innovation and Labor

2010-09-06T10:53:38-04:00

Today is Labor Day in the U.S. Many people have today off as a day to rest and bid a fond farewell to summer as fall is creeping up on us. If you’re like me, you’re thinking about grilling up...

Five Reasons You Don’t Have the Time to Delay Innovation

2010-09-01T15:27:53-04:00

“We just don’t have the time.” How often have you heard this familiar refrain? Just yesterday in a conversation with a leading company in the petro space, I heard a manager say, “We have a lot of stuff going on...

Why Companies Need Pervasive Innovation

2010-08-30T22:25:39-04:00

It’s hard to keep up with all the articles on innovation these days. There are so many outlets now where people are volunteering their experience and advice. A lot of the advice is quiet good. But, every now and then...

In Defense of Improvement

2010-08-26T10:30:45-04:00

A colleague pointed out a post by Patrick Lefler that appeared on Chuck Frey’s Innovation Tools site this week. In this article, Patrick proclaims that improvement is not innovation. Of course, in the purest sense, the author is correct. While...

Prepare Your Innovation Elevator Pitch

2010-08-11T11:34:12-04:00

Yesterday, an article appeared on Blogging Innovation by Roy Luebke titled “What to Tell the CEO About Innovation.” Roy goes on to posit what he would say to a CEO about innovation if given just a few moments of the...

Innovation Roadblocks

2010-08-09T10:00:00-04:00

I was talking to a senior level contributor in a company well known for its innovation capabilities. He’s responsible for looking at ways to identify where knowledge exists within the human capital of the organization and figuring out ways to...

Brainstorming Innovation – The Wisdom of the Cloud

2010-07-28T10:29:11-04:00

Brainstorming continues to be a common method to try and shake out the cobwebs and draw out new ideas from teams. In practice however, the outcome of brainstorming often falls short of expectations as team get stymied by a stalled...

The Gulf Oil Spill – A Lesson in Failure to Innovate

2010-06-28T03:00:00-04:00

It’s horrifying to think that it has been almost 70 days since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20th and little substantive progress has been achieved in stemming the ecological disaster of Brobdingnagian proportion. Crude oil continues to...