Federal government leaders know that their organizations should always be improving. But today’s multitude of complex and evolving challenges — tighter budgets, shrinking workforces, aging ...

“Innovation,” says Curtis Carlson, former president of Stanford Research Institute (SRI) and author of the classic book, Innovation (Crown, 2006), “is the primary driver of prosperity, job growth, ...

Almost all companies talk about caring about the consumer experience. I dare you to find a company who doesn’t say this is a priority. But this rarely translates into a truly, consumer-centered design ...

Growth companies that master both continuous improvement and breakthrough innovation outpace those that only optimize. Most businesses get trapped optimizing incremental improvements when what they ...

In the ever-evolving landscape of modern business, the pressure to innovate is relentless. Organizations are constantly pushed to develop state-of-the-art products, services, and business models that ...

Innovation supercharges growth, creates or reinvents categories, forms new business models, and enhances productivity. But barriers to innovation abound, and many companies struggle to systematize ...

You could say it doesn’t take much to make me happy, because I was thrilled to see TRIZ (the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving), an innovation methodology, featured in an article by BusinessWeek ...

Quick-serve and fast-casual specialist Secret Ingredient Marketing (SIM) announced that it has teamed up with Silicon Valley innovation professional Cliff Jue to expand its insight-based innovation ...

Over the past 20 plus years, many companies looking to catch the spark of Silicon Valley and accelerate their innovation practices have opened “Innovation Hubs”, sponsored “hackathons”, toured the ...

And when innovation productivity shows little or no improvement, the software immediately gets the blame, when in reality, the fault was due to a botched implementation. Attempting to implement ...