You know that brainstorming isn’t just thinking. It’s more than that. It’s coming up with different and novel ideas that will hopefully lead to a better solution to your problems. However, knowing what it is and being good at it
Innovation is an invention brought to life. It’s making the world better, more useful. That’s innovation strategy, summed up by Dr. Navin Kunde, leader of the Clorox Open Innovation Group. An engineer, professor, and business school graduate, Kunde has some
Flexible working, telecommuting, working from home, distributed working. No matter what you call it at your company, it offers a host of advantages. Teams are more focused, better able to balance life's many demands, and generally happier. What impact does
Do you want to know the secrets to success through internal crowdsourcing and innovation storytelling? NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation — a crowdsourcing platform — unveiled their best practices for approaches to problem-solving in a recent webinar in
“The devil is in the details.” “Look at the forest, not the trees.” These two aphorisms are thrown around constantly when discussing innovation team strategy, and at first, they seem contradictory. However, as you innovate, you learn that they're both
Innovation can’t thrive without leadership. Innovation leadership is emerging as a primary need of today’s businesses. It isn’t enough to have an outstanding leadership team today. You have to think ahead to the leaders your organization will have in the
While the term innovation isn’t exactly esoteric, it can be hard to pin down. What is innovative and what isn’t? The answer isn’t black and white. What qualifies as successful innovation management? Coming up with an idea that others like?
You may have been taking classes, conferring with colleagues, and reading articles for years without realizing that you were engaging in continuous learning. Here we discuss exploring the link between continuous learning and organizational innovation with innovation leadership. Don’t Take Learning
No generation is as simple as we tend to treat it, and this is as true of our older workers as it is of our younger ones. Contrary to popular belief, older workers don't exist to frustrate the young, or
We live in the information age. Anyone can quickly and easily gather data. As they say, “Data is the new oil.” However, it can also be the new trash. Companies use crowdsourcing for product innovation and focus groups for market research to
