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Article The Revolution in Consumer Products: 5 Lessons from New Brands
November 10, 2021 | By Paul Earle, Contributing Columnist and Principal of A Day in the Sun
Paul Earle, Contributing Columnist As a lifelong student, teacher and practitioner of innovation, I have always been fascinated by the quest to understand how. To find signal through the noise. What does John Lennon have in common with Bach and Banksy? What behaviors do Thomas Edison, Ben Franklin, and Tim...
Article The Revolution in Consumer Products Continues: 12 Brands You Need to Know
November 8, 2021 | By Paul Earle, Contributing Columnist and Principal of A Day in the Sun
Over the past five years, a full-scale revolution has fomented in the consumer products world. Rules are being rewritten. What up-and-coming brands are changing the game and reinvigorating the shopping experience? Contributing Columnist Paul Earle dives into the 12 brands you need to know for the future.
Article How Consumer Goods Companies Can Turn Everyday Users into Influencers
October 11, 2021 | By Jos Harrison, Contributing Columnist and Global Head of Brand Experience and Design at Reckitt
Jos Harrison, Global Head of Brand Experience and Design at the consumer packaged goods firm Reckitt, outlines how brands can leverage building positive relationships with the everyday consumer to grow a strong brand recognition and experience.
Article Why Digital Transformation Programs are Not About Technology
September 17, 2021 | By Ger Perdisatt, Contributing Columnist and Leader, Sales Excellence and Technology Strategy Organisation at Microsoft
“If you’re a leader expecting a technological silver bullet, a software panacea to all your business problems, without touching your people and processes,” writes Ger Perdisatt of Microsoft, “you’re going to struggle to derive value from a digital transformation program.” Here’s his advice on digital transformation, excerpted from the new book...
Article Why Well-Run Companies Continue to Fail
September 13, 2021 | By Alex Slawsby and Dan Ostrower
In the 24 years since Clay Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma was published, Christensen and many others uncovered a long list of reasons for why well-run companies can flounder. Despite these insights, leading companies now lose their leadership positions more quickly than ever before. The key question we must now...
Article How to Apply Lean Startup at Big Companies
March 3, 2021 | By Alexandru Darie, Contributing Columnist and Director of Digital Innovation and Transformation at Sensata Technologies
Slides on applying the lean startup from the former Director of Digital Innovation at a lighting manufacturer. “Lean startup is not a bible,” he writes, but “rather a recipe book…”
Article Party Lines, Clubhouse, and Reinvention as a Shortcut to Innovation
February 8, 2021 | By Rick Robinson, Contributing Columnist and VP of AARP Innovation Labs/AgeTech Collaborative
Rick Robinson, Vice President of Innovation at AARP Innovation Labs, shares why not every innovation needs to stem from novel ideas — all through the lens of Clubhouse.
Article What Are the Do’s and Dont’s When Digitally Twinning Your Innovation Hub?
November 11, 2020 | By Amanda Ramos, Contributing Columnist and Innovation Director at Gensler
This illustration of a digital twin Innovation Utopia/Dystopia completes the trifecta of the “new normal” hybrid experience by including the virtual dimension…
Article How is Team Management Changing?
October 27, 2020 | By Kyle Fugere, Contributing Columnist and former Head of Ventures at dunnhumby
Teams no longer fail because of location; they fail because of poor management. All the tools exist to make this a success, and they are only getting better.
On Demand Webcast What are the Biggest Barriers to Innovation?
September 14, 2020 | By David Lee, Contributing Columnist and VP of Innovation and New Ventures at UPS
This crisis is revealing aspects of our world that were broken, but hidden in the normal state of things. Now that the apple cart has been turned over, what can we see that is broken?
Article What is the Future of Theme Park Vacations?
September 4, 2020 | By Algernon Callier, Contributing Columnist and Head of Business Development and Chief Digital Evangelist for JIFFY.ai
Temperature screenings and face coverings are now part of the park experience. So what elements of the theme park vacation will remain forever changed? What will bounce back?
Article How is Sales Changing During COVID-19?
September 3, 2020 | By Aaron Proietti, Contributing Columnist and Founder of Today’s Innovator
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many business-to-business sales organizations are left with a pipeline of prospects that do not advance to later stages of the sales process…
Article How Can You Stay Close to Customers Remotely?
August 31, 2020 | By Eric Steege, Contributing Columnist and Senior Product Manager at Amazon
Eric Steege of Amazon Web Services shares how teams can stay close to their end users during a pandemic. Get his tips about leveraging learnings, customer insight channels, and more.
Article 10 Ways to Humanize Your Video Meetings
May 5, 2020 | By Suzanne Hamill, Contirbuting Columnist and former Head of Design Thinking at Fidelity Investments
The former Head of Design Thinking at Fidelity Investments shares how to make online meetings more produtive and more human.
Article Keeping Innovation Alive in the Time of COVID-19
March 17, 2020 | By Blade Kotelly, Contributing Columnist and Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management
“We’ve entered an unstable and economically volatile period that may serve up the biggest challenges of your career,” writes MIT senior lecturer Blade Kotelly, ”and will require every business to innovate in ways they never have before.” Here’s his concrete advice on how you and your team can keep innovation...
Article Six Tips for Getting ‘Customers’ to Buy What You’re Selling
February 6, 2020 | By Chris Mayer, Contributing Columnist and Independent Consultant at CMayer Consulting
“One way to ensure alignment,” writes Chris Mayer, “is to think of the innovation initiative as a consumer-oriented business with colleagues as customers.” Mayer, who served as the first Chief Innovation Officer at a large construction company, offers guidance on how to do that.
Article Three Recession Scenarios, and How to Survive Them
January 16, 2020 | By Nancy Tennant, Contributing Columnist and Adjunct Professor at the University of Chicago and University of Notre Dame
Nancy Tennant, a professor at Notre Dame and former Chief Innovation Officer at Whirlpool, lays out three recession scenarios that may hit your innovation group…
Article Living Through Budget Cuts: Mission, Communication & Metrics
January 16, 2020 | By Naomi Fried, Contributing Columnist & Former Chief Innovation Officer, Boston Children’s Hospital
“In recessions…groups get shut down completely,” says health care innovation expert Naomi Fried. Fried discusses defending the mission when times are tight…
Article Demonstrate Value by Looking for Gaps to Fill
January 16, 2020 | By Dennis McGrath, Contributing Columnist and Founder/President of Spark Innovation Partners
“Whenever the business softened just a little…Time horizons would shrink from years to ‘today,’” writes former Starbucks VP Dennis McGrath…
Article Banking Insights and Identifying Post-Recession Opportunities
January 16, 2020
“Being seen as a group that is purely visionary and focused on idea generation can make your group vulnerable to cuts,” writes Michael Perman, a former innovation and marketing leader at Gap Inc. and Levi Strauss. Perman explains how to avoid that fate when recessions, or other organizational stressors, are...