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No Instant Coffee Here: What Starbucks Teaches Us about the Importance of Timing and Innovation (Part 1 of 2) Timing. It can be the impetuous for the greatest, most serendipitous of love stories—the perfect Craigslist Missed Connection “How We Met” story later memorialized in the New York Time’s “Vows” section. Or, the most tragic, ill-timed…
An Interview on Innovation There are very few companies that are able to successfully bring new, profitable products to market. Companies that are able to achieve this – and do so on a regular basis – are usually the ones that end up on the “most innovative” lists we see on Forbes, Fortune, and the…
Do Current Accounting Systems Inhibit Innovation? Innovation thought leaders and industry experts emphatically harp that if you want to stay afloat (and ultimately thrive) in today’s hyper-competitive business environment, innovation is not optional—it’s absolutely imperative for survival and success. Your customers demand it; and if you can’t innovate, your competitors will consistently outflank and outperform…
Featured on 800ceoread.com: Robert’s Rules of Innovation II: The Art of Implementation The quest for implementing a sustainable culture of Innovation depends upon building a powerful team. And, in today’s marketplace, that requires harnessing the intellect and capabilities of a very diverse labor pool. It is far better to create an inclusive environment. Trouble starts when…
Reigniting the American Spirit of Innovation On Tuesday, January 12, 2016, President Barack Obama gave his final State of the Union (SOTU) address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. in which the theme of innovation was discussed. According to Nielsen TV Ratings estimates, an average audience of 31.3 million people…
Innovation & Crowdsourcing Software to Unleash the Power of Your Network and Enable Open Innovation and Idea Implementation Even the most egalitarian, Kumbaya-progressive companies often forget that the crucial ideas—the potential game-changing, breakthrough innovations—can come from anyone, anywhere, and at any time. While the innovation process typically needs the structure of a repeatable innovation process…
In 2016 and beyond, business leaders must permanently implement a culture of innovation. The Times Square Ball dropped. Ryan Seacrest earned a cool $1 million for hosting one night of television. And there was all the predictable raucous cheering and party horn blowing, kissing, and butchering of the “Auld Lang Syne” lyrics. Now, we’re just…
Forbes Contributor Martin Zwilling introduction to Robert’s Rules of Innovation II: The Art of Implementation One of the biggest challenges in any business, large or small, is overcoming the natural human preference for status quo, or fear of change. It means that most team members and executives alike have a natural tendency to prefer killing…
On this blog, we first wrote about the Internet of Things (IoT) in the blog post entitled “Innovation Management: Keeping Up with the Digital World.” If you haven’t read it, here’s a quick recap: Even though the term Internet of Things has been around for over 15 years, the term is still not particularly…
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