Recently, I presented at the Chief Innovation Officer Summit (CINO). I have wondered for some time how the market would differentiate between the two CIO titles and roles that have evolved in the corporate world. The traditional CIO stood for Chief Information Officer of course which had enterprise... Read More

Every day brings a new press release or corporate statement extolling the virtues and importance of innovation to a corporation's future. But aside from mom and apple pie concepts of being a world leading product company, do stakeholders in the business really understand the tangible value that... Read More

The Annual Global Innovation 1000 Study by Booz & Company includes a list of the companies with the highest R&D spending. Forbes magazine did investment related research into these top R&D spenders and concluded that contrary to popular belief, companies that spend more on R&D are not necessarily... Read More

While establishing innovation and new product development process is no easy feat, effective execution and adoption of practices is even more difficult. Time and again, leading consumer goods companies recognize they need more from their innovation investments. Read More

As an innovation or R&D professional in a chemical organization, you've likely experienced firsthand the challenges that come with striving for growth and competitive differentiation through innovation initiatives. With a rebounding economy and growing global demand, chemical executives are... Read More

Your NPD process is stuck in the 80s when… Your organization still calls it ‘gated process'. Your portfolio of projects consists of an Excel™ spreadsheet. Projects get into the process and never get killed. Concepts are generated from random brainstorming or are management pet projects. Your... Read More

Stage-Gate ® recently celebrated its 30th birthday. We felt this would be a good occasion to take a closer look at where Stage-Gate comes from, its role and status today, and whether there is a future for this methodology. You cannot find a better person to answer these questions than the inventor... Read More

An organization's innovation efforts become more efficient and effective if they are tied to the company's strategic planning process. Linking the two processes, however, is easier said then done. How can companies use their strategic plans to guide innovation? One way to do this is to identify... Read More

Many experts would suggest that innovation is the heart of an organization. Without healthy innovation, eventually the company will cease to thrive and possibly even die. How do you know if the health of your innovation is suffering? Most likely, there will be an unfavorable manifestation in... Read More

In a recent blog post, I began this theme with a brief discussion of how text mining can help find white spaces for discovery and business intelligence. This post is about how with help of text mining techniques you can transform masses of “unstructured” data (texts, documents, etc.) into a very... Read More