The Value of an Innovation Mentor
Lots of businesses utilize mentors - from start-ups to the Fortune 500 and they're using them for a variety of performance goals. They've found that more employees have a positive [...]
13 Things to Know About Crowdsourcing
United Way is engaged in nearly 1,800 communities across more than 40 countries and territories worldwide. As the largest privately-funded nonprofit in the world, United Way creates solutions that build stronger [...]
Culture: Innovation’s Biggest Challenge
We asked our customers what their number one priority was for the coming year and the leading priority was: culture. We were a bit surprised by this answer. We thought [...]
What Innovation Skills Should You Focus on Building?
Innovation is a practice at forward-thinking organizations. And like any other company discipline, the skills and rules associated with an internal practice require refinement and continuous learning because the boundaries [...]
What Kind of Company is a Good Fit for Crowdsourcing?
DICK’S Sporting Goods was founded in 1948 and continues to be a family run business today with over 600 stores nationwide. Nowadays, however, Dick’s Sporting Goods has 37,600 employees worldwide [...]
Expert Interview Series: Michel van Hove of Strategos About Creating Innovation Within a Company’s Culture
Michel van Hove is the co-owner and partner of Strategos, a strategy and innovation consultancy that helps companies grow. We recently spoke with Michel to hear his thoughts on how [...]
Innovation and Failure: Learning the Route to Success
Entrepreneurship and Failure Many people look at failure as a complete negative. I like to think of failures as the route to innovation. The keys to innovation from failure are [...]
Best Practices for Asking for Employee Ideas
Creativity should be rewarded, but you need to ask for it. Can an employee ever offer you the unvarnished truth? Many of us would like to say yes, but stop [...]
Five Tips for Cultivating Creative Thinking on Your Team
Creativity is the great untapped resource on any team. How do you bring out the creativity of your team? It's one of the harder questions to answer in innovation management, [...]
Are Basic Startup Principles the Key to Enterprise Innovation?
Build a startup inside a bigger organization for the best innovation strategy! It's an axiom of business that the bigger you are, the slower you move. In innovation strategy, that [...]