The Spanish Armada was one of the most vast and powerful naval fleets in history. Though feared across the seas, it met its eventual demise to the British because it hadn’t accounted for its own shortcomings. While the Armada specialized at ramming and boarding ships, the English navy employed a... Read More

Don’t you love watching the relay race in track & field? After a leg or two, victory may seem inevitable for one team. But in a flash, the trajectory of the race may turn as one runner dramatically gains on another. Once the baton is handed to the anchor, fortunes could completely flip. High drama!... Read More

Quick summary As AI matures in the innovation management space, enterprises that leverage their entire body of historical and real-time data will gain a competitive advantage. But AI won’t replace a guiding innovation strategy. The organizations that win will use AI to augment their growth and... Read More

Why does a round pizza come in a square box? Why do we park in a driveway but drive on a parkway? Why do we call it a pair of pants when it’s clearly one item? If we ask ourselves questions like these too much, perhaps it means we’ve lost the plot. The same happens in innovation. Read More

Everyone loves good drama. The game show Shark Tank, for example, is a fun watch. Upstart idea men and women attempt to sell their pet projects to highly successful investors. They sweat buckets as the sharks poke holes in their rickety business models. Sixty minutes and a handful of pitches later,... Read More

People like to romanticize gamblers. They fantasize of the moment they push all their chips to the middle of the table on a wild bluff. But great gamblers don’t really gamble. They are math wizards that are capable of instantly computing their odds of success in any situation and act accordingly.... Read More

Ideas get generated. Patents get filed. Research gets published. But somewhere between a promising concept and real commercial impact, momentum stalls. Not because people aren’t working hard, but because the ones responsible for different parts of the journey rarely share the same room, the same... Read More

The casual sports fan thinks winning is as simple as trading your team’s worst players for the league’s generational talent. Oh wow, why didn’t they think of that? The smart fan knows championship contention is built through the draft, free agency, and trades. Getting a little bit better than the... Read More

Take the quiz to explore the core elements that define your enterprise’s innovation culture, uncover the components that set your approach apart, and get matched with an innovation game changer who would thrive in your unique culture of innovation. Read More

Information without structure is a hurricane. It is random debris flying about, power lines down — there goes a cow flying by — total chaos. If the data, analysis, and feedback surrounding your innovation strategy is whirling around in turbulent circles, progress, let alone success, is extremely... Read More