Crossing the Internal Chasm in Corporate Innovation
There is a huge noise around what companies should do to find the big ideas. Compared to it, the discussion about the best way of turning those ideas into substantial businesses is almost silent. We...
View ArticleWant to Nail Pricing? Understand Market Dynamics First
Pricing is a game – one with asymmetric and imperfect information. So what does this mean for you? Basically, you’re very unlikely to nail pricing the first time. And even if you do come close, you’ll...
View ArticleInnovate like a Pilgrim
Scott Bowden investigates and shares how the Pilgrims voage to America yields lessons for the modern-day innovation practitioner.
View ArticleHave You Tried New Ways to Innovate?
After relying on cost and operational efficiencies to grow the bottom line, many businesses are emerging from an innovation slumber post-recession. Now there is an imperative to refocus on organic...
View ArticleInnovation’s Degrees of Connectivity, Interactivity and Sharing
Many of us became disconnected with the early part of the discovery for innovation, we simply became just the implementors, pushing the innovation through the pipeline into its final execution. That...
View ArticleBetter Inventions – Leveraging Powerful Stimulus
At my inventing company, we always use Quantum Idea Generation to generate the ideas that help companies double their innovation success rate. We have used Quantum Idea Generation to invent well over...
View ArticleHow To Create a Strategic Planning Process for Innovation
Every innovative product begins as a concept in the mind of someone or some group of people. These concepts are the seeds of your company’s future growth. How is your company cultivating these seeds?...
View ArticleUsing Product Development Metrics That Motivate at the Team Level
The two most common product development metrics are R&D spending as a percent of sales and revenues from new products over time. These metrics, although necessary to track, do not predict a result....
View ArticleWhat is the Cost of a Failed Innovation Project or Change Initiative?
It seems like a simple question. One that you would expect to lead to some risk mitigation behavior, but it doesn’t. And when you consider that companies are spending an increasing amount of their...
View ArticleThe Secret to Managing Creative Projects (while looking for the next big hit)
In any industry, innovation is essentially an arms race. If you’re not creating the next big thing, someone else is seizing the opportunity to define it. The problem is, there’s a lot of time between...
View ArticleAre Empathy and Innovation in the Cards?
As part of the leadership team for a new human-centered problem-solving offering for select Oracle customers, I’m always on the lookout for new tools to integrate into our flexible problem-solving...
View ArticleInnovate like a Pilgrim
Scott Bowden investigates and shares how the Pilgrims voage to America yields lessons for the modern-day innovation practitioner.
View ArticleHow To Create a Strategic Planning Process for Innovation
Every innovative product begins as a concept in the mind of someone or some group of people. These concepts are the seeds of your company’s future growth. How is your company cultivating these seeds?...
View ArticleUsing Product Development Metrics That Motivate at the Team Level
The two most common product development metrics are R&D spending as a percent of sales and revenues from new products over time. These metrics, although necessary to track, do not predict a result....
View ArticleWhat is the Cost of a Failed Innovation Project or Change Initiative?
It seems like a simple question. One that you would expect to lead to some risk mitigation behavior, but it doesn’t. And when you consider that companies are spending an increasing amount of their...
View ArticleThe Secret to Managing Creative Projects (while looking for the next big hit)
In any industry, innovation is essentially an arms race. If you’re not creating the next big thing, someone else is seizing the opportunity to define it. The problem is, there’s a lot of time between...
View ArticleAre Empathy and Innovation in the Cards?
As part of the leadership team for a new human-centered problem-solving offering for select Oracle customers, I’m always on the lookout for new tools to integrate into our flexible problem-solving...
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