The Long Sleep: Innovative Product Gestation
You could call it hibernation, but that’s too kind. You could call it neglect, yet some are working on it pushing the proverbial boulder up the corporate mountain. To be kind, let’s simply call it The...
View ArticleMake Life Easy for Your Customers
Companies that have products want to improve them year-on-year. This year’s must be better than last year’s. For selfish reasons, we like to improve cost, speed and quality. Cost reduction drops profit...
View ArticleFour Myths About Empowering Change
We live in a transformational age. Powerful technologies like the cloud and artificial intelligence are quickly shifting what it means to compete. Social movements like #MeTo are exposing decades of...
View ArticleTop 20 Innovation Articles of August 2019
Drum roll please… At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish a weekly Top 8 as...
View ArticleWe Need to Stop Glorifying Failure and Do This Instead
Over 50% of startups fail (and that number goes up to 75% for venture backed startups). The same is true of about three quarters of corporate transformations, which is probably why the average lifespan...
View ArticleEmpathy, Integrative Thinking and Innovation
I write and play music as a creative hobby. It doesn’t pay terribly well, but it is fun, and can also occasionally trigger insights into the creative process that translate into the broader innovation...
View ArticleLeading People in the Imagination Age
Most of us are aware that the nature of work is changing. According to Singularity University, while emerging technologies may destroy many jobs, they will also create many new appealing ones....
View ArticleTesting Your Business Model
Sometimes we get caught up in the details when we should be working on the foundation. Here’s a rule: If the underlying foundation is not secure, don’t bother working on anything else. If you’re...
View Article4 Things All Managers Must Know About Digital Transformation But Don’t
Today, technology has become central to how every business competes. Futuristic advancements like artificial intelligence, big data and cloud computing are no longer pie-in-the-sky propositions, but...
View ArticleIncreased R&D Doesn’t Mean Innovation
A recent PwC study looked at a large rise in global R&D spending in 2018, more than a 17% gain over 2017. Many pundits shared the article as evidence of an innovation revolution despite the...
View ArticleHere’s How We’re Killing Innovation In America
Throughout America’s history, technological innovation has been key to security and prosperity. Whether it was through entrepreneurs like Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Thomas Watson, or government...
View ArticleWhen to pull the plug and learn from failure
Creating a new venture, championing a new process or offering a new course or program is exciting. However, statistically, it is more likely you will fail than succeed and there is a fine line between...
View ArticleDe-Risking Corporate Innovation by Using Suppliers
In this column we have analyzed why it is nearly impossible for Corporate Innovation teams to successfully commercialize new products, services, and business models both within and outside of their...
View ArticleSingle Biggest Obstacle to Artificial Intelligence is This Obscure Factor
The promise of A.I. seems to be right around the corner, but not unless we deal with one critical challenge that would delay A.I. by decades. The promise of A.I. is everywhere and in everything. From...
View ArticleScenarios for Smart, Sustainable, Human Cities
Intelligent, Connected, and Mobile – By Rohit Talwar, Steve Wells, Alexandra Whittington, April Koury, and Maria Romero How might technological advances in data management, artificial intelligence, and...
View ArticleThe Whole System is Rigged Against Innovation
Work in innovation for more than a decade you see familiar patterns. One of the most damning, yet predictable ones is relying on the core business units to commercialize innovations outside of their...
View ArticleGet Ready for the Largest Divide Man Has Ever Faced
According to one of the most detailed studies of A.I.’s adoption, the benefits and the risks are much greater than anything we’ve ever imagined. Are you prepared? The din of AI seems to be everywhere....
View ArticleSilicon Valley’s Next Target: Disrupt the Construction and Real Estate...
‘Construction Tech’ and ‘Real Estate Tech’ are the next greenfield market spaces. Every industry, every company, and every leader must recognize one simple fact: every product, service, process, and...
View ArticleEntrepreneurial Efforts for Innovation Must Fit Your Brand
To meet ever-increasing growth objectives, established companies want to be more entrepreneurial. And the thinking goes like this – launch new products and services to create new markets, do it quickly...
View ArticleThe Age of Innovation is Here to Stay, Are You Prepared for It?
The Personal Computer and the Internet have, without a doubt, revolutionized business in the last 25 years. For most of us, it’s now impossible to think of the business world without all of the...
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