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Could Your Innovation Strategy Use a Leg Up?

Innovation can be hard work. However, if your innovation strategy results in lots of hard work for little reward, then it's time to step back and consider whether you need to give your team a leg up on the process.

Understanding the Design Thinking Process

Who is your customer? Any business can answer this question, in many cases in detail and almost effortlessly. How often do you ask that question when developing your product? That's what the design thinking process is all about, and it

Innovation Management Software: 4 Essential Components

Businesses are rapidly realizing that innovation isn’t something that “strikes”. But something that can be encouraged, generated and managed for the good of the company, its employees, and its customers. People have always had ideas. But never before has it

4 Signs It’s Time to Hire an Innovation Management Consultant

An innovation management consultant helps organizations establish innovation programs and keep innovation on track. Innovation management consulting has emerged as a profession as businesses, nonprofits, and other organizations have started prioritizing innovation. Organizations of all kinds have watched as innovative

Is Your Innovation Training Program All It Could Be?

Businesses can no longer ignore innovation and hope to remain competitive. If only innovation were as easy as snapping our fingers! It isn’t just tech companies and startups that are emphasizing innovation, but businesses in all industries and of all

What Role Does Practicality Play in Innovation?

Innovation is not just an endless succession of blue-sky concepts. In fact, if you think about it, innovations quite often make the practical aspects of life better. Banking from your phone is one example of innovation with practical results. While innovations

Innovation Metrics: Ideation Rate vs. Implementation Rate

Measuring innovation isn’t the same as measuring traditional business metrics like market size, gross margins, or return on investment. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t measure innovation success. You simply have to know which measuring sticks to use. Though good

FDA Transforms the Workplace with Innovation Challenges

The FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) is part of the agency that regulates over-the-counter and prescription drugs, including biologic therapies. To ensure that safe and effective medications are available to the people who need them.  Five years

The Global Climate Strike: A Call for Innovation

No matter where you live in the world, you have likely experienced more unusual weather lately. Whether that means temperatures that are hotter or cooler than normal or devastating storms, the reality of climate change can no longer be ignored. With