Creative Analysis – Innovation’s Secret Sauce
Are you a “right-brain” thinker or a “left-brain” thinker? The idea that certain hemispheres of the brain can be stronger in different people and lead to different styles of thought [...]
Crowdsourced Innovation: Three Things I Learned
The three things I learned about crowdsourced innovation are: Innovation is required to be competitive, creating a concrete innovation system helps firms get ahead, and the hardest aspects of crowdsourced innovation are participation and accountability.
Research is Collaborative
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Yoda’s Best Advice for Innovation
“Do. Or do not. There is no try.” Yoda's famous advice is absolute. Yoda doesn't leave much room for failure. But what Yoda is really talking about is commitment. Innovation [...]
How NASA is Crowdsourcing its Innovation Strategy
It takes millions of minds to get one man in space. NASA is, to many, a symbol of scientific innovation. The space race touched off an unprecedented "peace dividend" that [...]
Looking at Nothing: What NASA’s 1996 discovery teaches us about business innovation
In 1996, NASA changed everything by looking at nothing. What if I told you one of the biggest discoveries ever made by NASA, that would change how we view our [...]
3 Ways to Tap Internal Innovation Potential and Improve Morale
image credit Missy Schmidt via flickr Innovation has become the benchmark of success for growing businesses, world class learning institutions, and government agencies. Public perception might not envisage [...]
Crowdsourcing the Mission to Mars
In April of 2010, President Obama made a speech at the Kennedy Space Center on the subject of the US Space Program, which included a $6 billion budget increase in [...]