Business Innovation

Innovation doesn't come easily to most large companies. Yet some big players in nearly every industry are able to turn out one successful new product after another. Take consumer goods.

In every company there exist at least three simultaneous perspectives. The first is about the history of the company, its origins, growth, struggles, successes. The history often defines perspectives and forms the basis of organizational culture.

When some companies stop innovating, it can literally kill them.Remember Blockbuster?Just 10 years ago, with 8,000 stores and $3 billion in annual revenue, Blockbuster was easily the planet's biggest

Jeff Bezos' annual letters to shareholders provide some interesting insights into how Amazon has managed to continue to innovate, even as they've grown to become enormous.

only 11% of marketers budget for marketing innovation efforts, yet a majority says innovation efforts yield positive roi.

Yes. And the author helped create an index to help us better understand how sustained innovation happens.

All organizations face the challenge of combating the inherent reluctance of people in different roles to align around critical opportunities to work together.

The term Crowdsourcing feels mainstream, but author Jeff Howe’s book on the subject is only five years old. That said, the roots of crowdsourcing lie in open-sourcing.  Perhaps the best example of open-sourcing would be the Linux operating system.

Too many ideas could actually hurt your business.

A brief description of the Blue Ocean Strategy framework with a small business case study.

In the busy world we live in, people want simplicity. We desire stripped down, short and to the point products, services and information.

How 3M has consistently powered itself through innovation.

Professor Clayton M. Christensen, Craig Hatkoff and Rabbi Irwin Kula launch the Off-White Papers

Three tips to help you think independently and come up with creative solutions.

I wrote the popular book The Myths of Innovation to capture everything I wish I'd been told before I started my career. I've seen bloggers summarize the book into a simple list (or cheezy video), but here's a version written by my own hand.

The CU-INSEAD-WIPO study ranked 142 countries on their innovation capabilities by using 84 indicators...However, even a brief look at the 142-country GII-2013 list led me to a curious observation: