Jessica Day

How Innovation Leaders Tap into Intrinsic Motivation

Is your business innovation driven by internal rewards? Do your employees do what they do because they love doing it? If so, you’re successfully tapping into a process known as intrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation occurs when an individual acts out

7 Best Practices for Your Next Innovation Training Session

Teaching people to think creatively may feel like a freeform exercise, and it can be. But even the loosest session will benefit from adherence to some best practices. Here's how to ensure any innovation workshop is both creative and productive.

Inform Your Product Development with Innovation Roadmaps

Product roadmaps are powerful tools to get the team organized and to get a new product launched. However, they can also be used for the conceptualization of the product itself. Innovation roadmaps use the product roadmap technique to drive innovation

What Role Does Competition Play in Innovation?

Competition is innate in what humans do. Everybody wants to be the best at something, whether it's their hobby, their job, or their industry. However, left unchecked, competition can become a toxic fight to win, rather than succeed. Balance is

The Five Building Blocks of Collaborative Innovation

Are you looking for ways to inspire collaborative innovation in your organization? Your staff has the talent and intelligence, but are they working with the right people? Collaborative innovation involves bringing together ideas that can result in something groundbreaking. It

From Inspiration to Execution: Charting the Journey

Creativity is not a scarce resource. Humanity's creativity and imagination have been key forces in our history from its very beginnings. That said, history is full of grand ideas that aren't executed, or only ever partially achieved. Moving from innovation