Monthly Archives: October 2011
Today’s leading organizations are knowledge creating companies that thrive on continuous innovation. It’s a big competitive edge. New products and services can be “knocked off” or copied. But it’s much harder for competitors to duplicate a management system and corporate culture that produces a continuous stream of successful product and service improvements, innovations, adaptations, and extensions. Continue reading
Is the success of your innovation projects based on luck? Would you rather your product development team be lucky or good? Being lucky in the things you can’t control is a wonderful thing, but relying on luck for the things you can control really isn’t the best strategy for your innovation efforts. So, is your development team practicing Luckovation? Here are few characteristics of “Luckovators” to help you find out: Continue reading
Smart leaders don’t think “best” practices – they focus their attention on discovering “next” practices. The simple fact of the matter is too many leaders are concerned with fixing things, when what they should be doing is breaking things. Continue reading
Found this video interview with Tom Peters on why innovation comes from dissatisfied people. Here is a quote from the video from Tom: “I believe there is one and only one source of innovation – pissed off people.” – Tom Peters
Are You Ready for People Position Technology?
If your business is currently using QR Codes you are on the right track of thinking about how your business can benefit from real time interactions with customers to increase sales. Continue reading
Every year, graduate students and faculty at U.S. research universities invent more than more 20,000 new devices, methods, drug molecules, and other novel technologies. Will the America Invents Act and our new “first to file” patent system impact how universities manage this ever-growing stockpile of university inventions? Right now, the jury is divided. Continue reading
