Business Innovation

The Innovation Excellence community is home to innovation articles, webinars, videos, training and education - powering successful growth in the innovation management profession.

Smart city revenue growth will total tens of billions of dollars, and a "city as platform" manifesto has gained support from both cities and technology vendors.

The Innovation Excellence community is home to innovation articles, webinars, videos, training and education - powering successful growth in the innovation management profession.

Do you want to make a successful blue ocean shift? Then you need the right perspective, practical tools and a humanistic process.

The Innovation Excellence community is home to innovation articles, webinars, videos, training and education - powering successful growth in the innovation management profession.

Traditional "innovation" metrics don't generally include sustainability criteria. Here's how to change that.

As part of our new video interview series, we sat down with Rowan Chapman, head of J&J Innovation California, to get her thoughts on what the big pharma company wants to see from its potential life science partners.

In this interesting perspective video (above) from Dr Beau Lotto, we find out why being creative is one of the things which the brain fears most.

At a high level, it is all about the fact that the brain is designed to reduce and remove uncertainty from our lives.

It was designed to learn and understand all

The Innovation Excellence community is home to innovation articles, webinars, videos, training and education - powering successful growth in the innovation management profession.

Instead of companies competing in established markets (“red oceans”), companies should create markets (“blue ocean”). Red oceans summon up images of companies fiercely competing with each for market dominance. Much like sharks fighting over a school of fish. In contrast, blue oceans are wide open spaces where a company can build a market free of competing companies.

The Innovation Excellence community is home to innovation articles, webinars, videos, training and education - powering successful growth in the innovation management profession.

Why do some companies succeed in creating new market spaces while others fail? W. Kim Chan and Renée Mauborgne, authors of the bestselling book Blue Ocean Strategy talk about their latest title Blue Ocean Shift, and how to apply their strategy to your business

The Innovation Excellence community is home to innovation articles, webinars, videos, training and education - powering successful growth in the innovation management profession.

We talk about why leader's need courage to actually try new things and innovate, and some case studies of inspiring leaders who have succeeded in that.

Every company says that innovation is important, and that they value the ideas of their people.

In fact, creativity is becoming a core skill which companies know they need in the future.

Yet the problem lies in the fact that so few established companies actually know how to go about getting value out of their innovation

In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Tony Ulwick, CEO of Strategyn and the person who introduced the world to the Jobs to be Done theory of innovation.

Topics covered in this episode:

His initial experience of failure at IBM with the PC

In Silicon Valley, there is a document which has become legendary.

It is a document which outlines some of the company and HR policies which have created a company which completely disrupted an industry sector.

And much of its value comes from the fact that it contains policies which seem so ridiculous in theory, but end up