Category: Training
This is the first post in a series where I look into how you can use the four leading social media tools – Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube – to advance your innovation agenda.
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Over the last decade I have worked with Congress and The Administration, through various organizations to help improve America’s competitiveness in the highly competitive and global innovation economy. Continue reading
Innovation is impossible to achieve without taking a necessary amount of risk. In a world where the success rate of new product entries in the grocery business is 1 in 100, it is inevitable that every success sees failures along the way. An effective innovation leader should encourage creativity and risk taking, while also practicing a tolerance for failure. Continue reading
In order to build a long-term culture of sustained innovation, a structured process must be put into place especially in idea generation or ideation. Continue reading
One ‘type’ of innovation that seems always to be often passed over is distinctive innovation in discussions. Why is that? Continue reading
The Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center (CEC) is a non-profit organization focused on promoting and growing the startup community in Chicago. The CEC works with high-potential entrepreneurs and offers them business advisory services and educational programming; organizes events that facilitate relationship development and networking; and in 2012 will launch a physical center and co-working space for startups known as 1871. While it identifies and seeks to serve promising entrepreneur clients, the CEC also partners and works with large corporations and service firms, the investor community, as well as the civic organizations, non-profits and academic institutions. Continue reading
The middle manager is so focused on the delivery of short term results through effective organization and pursuing efficiencies they have little ‘slack’ within the system to learn and build innovation into it. Continue reading
