Observations and Insights from the 2012 Product Innovation Management Conference
(Note: Bob Johnston, is the immediate Past President and Board Chair of the Product Development and Management Association.) If you would like a glimpse of the global fabric for the practice of...
View ArticleInnovation Dams
A news article on an Atlantic salmon restoration program in New England caught my eye recently. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service was abandoning its program of seeding salmon stock in large New...
View ArticleBe The Force of Sandy
Following my one-day project in Vermont on the day Hurricane Sandy came ashore, my intention was to drive the two hours to my home. I don’t know what would have happened to my little car when...
View ArticleRemember Ralphie on Your Innovation Journey
One of my favorite movies at this time of year is A Christmas Story. In it, nine-year old Ralphie Parker from Hohman, Indiana wants only one thing for Christmas – a Red Ryder BB gun. The movie tells...
View ArticleInnovation: Beyond Problem-Solving
Don’t you hate it when you are dealing with some critical personal problem that seems to be of gargantuan proportions and your “friend” tells you that it is really an opportunity for you? That got me...
View ArticleStage Gates: Friend or Foe?
Recently, I was traveling to an important meeting in Boston and had a critical flight connection to make in Washington, DC. If I missed that connection, I would miss my meeting. To my delight, our...
View ArticleConstructive Collaboration
It’s not true that “every idea is a good idea.” Of the tens of thousands of ideas that I have seen come out of brainstorming sessions, a majority of them are what most people would consider bad ideas....
View ArticlePermission for Creativity in the Workplace
“…and outside of my job, I’m a professional clown.” We were doing a standard round of introductions in a training course I was running a couple of days ago when one gentleman revealed to the group...
View ArticleInnovation: the World of Creative Wisdom
“A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” came up in a conversation I was having recently. This is an old proverb passed down for many generations about the choice between what you have and what...
View ArticleCulture of Efficiency or Innovation?
My wife mentioned to me the other day that a piece of trim had broken in one of our closets and asked if I could fix it. It is a job that I have done a number of times before. So, using the tools I...
View ArticleStrategy Innovation from TopGolf in the Declining Golf Market
Transformational strategy innovation often leads to rapid expansion, even in declining markets. An article on TopGolf in the May 2014 issue of Golf Digest provides an illustrative example. Rapid Growth...
View ArticleStrategy Innovation Makes the Future Happen Faster
Most approaches to innovation strategic planning are like automobile rotaries that bring you back to the same place you started without providing any new scenery along the way. Strategy Innovation is...
View ArticleLessons Learned from three decades of innovation consulting: Every...
When we started innovation consulting innovation mattered less. That time has passed. In today’s hyper-competitive marketplace, every organization is on its own innovation journey, whether or not it...
View ArticleDo Strategy Innovation First – Then Do Strategic Planning
A company’s potential for innovative growth is limited by its ritual of using strategic planning to identify the space to explore for new top line growth. It is like looking in the rearview mirror to...
View ArticleGetting the most out of your strategy innovation initiatives: where...
Breakthrough thinking comes with challenging your frame of reference, re-examining your assumptions, what you call the “truth”, inspecting habits, and breaking through the “it-cannot-be-done” or...
View ArticleUse Strategy Innovation As A Co-Creation Launching Pad With Partners
The dynamics of rapid marketplace change is requiring that organizations re-examine their approach to strategy for new growth. Strategic partners, vendors, and alliances in a global market have become...
View ArticleInventing Backwards – A Tool for Strategy Innovation
Inventing backwards – from the future to the present – is an effective tool for addressing the myopia we have for generating innovative growth with Strategy Innovation. We spend our life attempting to...
View ArticleFour Pillars of Innovation: Part I – Today’s Needs vs. Tomorrow’s Vision
Over the years, Insigniam has partnered with a myriad of companies in a variety of verticals to accelerate growth by way of Enterprise Innovation, Strategy Innovation, Innovation Projects, and Tailored...
View ArticleFour Pillars of Innovation: Part II – The Indestructible Infrastructure
In our previous discussion, we considered the question, “How can you create and sustain growth through innovation when you need to balance the needs of today with the aspirations and vision of...
View ArticleHealthcare Innovation: A Transformation of Safety.
Accidents happen. That statement has become so true for most of us, we rarely—if ever–examine what it means and implies. In response to “accidents happen”, safety professionals have developed ways to...
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