Business Innovation

Since the inception of the automobile industry, product features and functions were thought to be the primary determinants for customer buying decisions.

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You want to know what the biggest input gap is where innovation is concerned? Want to know what really matters when you are starting an innovation initiative? Did the bright sparkly pop-up advertisement steal your attention in the last 20 seconds?

John kindly made this video for the first #tmbrum after I read about his approach to developing school strategy Thanks John - a very nice man and a very clever man

Step #4 in a series about Blue Ocean Strategy. This article covers everything about what’s next: Getting the Strategic Sequence Right.

Big data could transform the health-care sector, but the industry must undergo fundamental changes before stakeholders can capture its full value. A McKinsey & Company article.

Part 3 in a series about Blue Ocean Strategy. In your own discovery phase of Blue Ocean, pushing into new markets will often have new opportunities awaiting you.

This is the blog-size version of the Blue Ocean Strategy how to, so perhaps you can find your own “Blue Ocean.”

Here's a question that has befuddled even the best innovation thinkers, and has led to countless articles, white papers, surveys and other analysis: which is more important to innovation success, leadership or culture?

I've written in the past about how innovation is all about value and about how innovation veracity is more important than innovation velocity.

Flickr Photo By wintercool612 By Andrea Simon, Ph.D., Cultural Anthropologist & CEO of Simon Associates Management Consultants A former client contacted us recently, saying: “We’re stuck.” As in so many cases after 2008’s Great Recession, his division,...

To surface hidden barriers that might be blocking innovation does needs a conscious effort, a consistent questioning, validating and exploring to “peel away” and get at the root of the problem.

Innovation is more than a new gizmo or a slick website. It's an entirely new way of thinkingsomething ATampT understood all the way back in 1961.

Everyone applauds innovation. At least, they love it in retrospect, after it has worked. Before that, it's just somebody's wild idea that competes with every other wild idea for resources and support.

One of the key rules of Blue Ocean Strategic thinking is “never outsource your eyes.” Get out of your office and go searching for new ideas yourself.

I increasingly cringe every time I see a new article talking about someone's innovator's DNA or innovation personality, or other similar lines of thinking or frameworks that insinuate that people are either innovative or not, or that some people...

Part 3 (final) of a series on neuroscience and innovation. Today, we finish our conversation with Janet Crawford, a leading authority on how neuroscience can enhance business success.