The world today moves at the speed of constant innovation. Some innovations are large, like a new product idea; some are small, like a new feature — a button added or an enhancement to an existing ...
Innovation blah blah blah. Books, podcasts, conferences, Ted Talks … There’s an entire industry dedicated to telling you why and how to innovate, offering fool-proof innovation strategies and secret ...
Measures for operational innovation examine the effectiveness of adjustments to organizational processes. Common measures for this type include selling, general, and administrative expenses (SG&A) as ...
In a company I previously worked at, one of my bosses was a big guy with an even bigger personality. He shared his opinions loudly and broadly, and one of his opinions was that we needed to stop using ...
Innovation should be a team sport, but in many organizations it’s still an elitist game— reserved for R&D, the executive suite, or those with highly specialized skills. After all, how many people can ...
Any kind of innovative activity is driven by the urge for utmost success, continuous improvement or mere survival. The same holds true for management innovation, arguably the most advanced innovation ...
Simon Leys, the Belgian sinologist, polymath, and translator of Confucius’ Analects, once noted that “Western incapacity to grasp the Soviet reality and all its Asian variants was not a failure of ...
A Mutual Fund conference I attended recently provided me with the opportunity to meet up with some old friends from the ...