10 Ways To Avoid Being Labeled a Complainer At Work
How many of you have been on a team at work where the negative energy gets hard to take day in and day out? I know I certainly have. Negativity…
Using Agile Product Portfolio Management
Product managers and organizational leaders turn to portfolio management after they have two or more products to simultaneously manage. It reduces headaches and wasted effort. Traditional product portfolio management…
Lessons from Four Great American Innovators
In 1912 a young scientist from New York, Clarence Birdseye departed on a fur-trading expedition to Labrador in Canada. While he was there he noticed that the local Eskimos…
The Real Work of Innovation
Being creative. Generating thousands of ideas. Making employees feel heard, valued, more than a cog in a machine. These are the superficial by-products of an in-depth discipline. Unto themselves,…
The Importance of Digital and Mobile Initiatives
A minority of executives describe their companies as “highly advanced” in their digital pursuits, according to a recent survey from KPMG. The resulting report, titled “Crossing the Enterprise Digital Divide:…
Bank Of America’s Digital Transformation: Where IT Fits In
Bank of America Merrill Lynch is in the midst of sweeping digital transformation involving all aspects of its customer-facing operations. InformationWeek spoke with several of the company’s technology executives to…
6 Parts of Your Business You Better Have Organized
This year, consulting work at some great companies has taken me all over the world. I’ve spent eight of the last 10 months outside of the United States. The constant…
4 Tips for Growing a Sustainable Business
The following excerpt is from Wendy Keller’s book Ultimate Guide to Platform Building. In the old days, before online rating places like Yelp, TripAdvisor, OpenTable and even RateMyProfessors and HealthGrades,…
Rapid Application Development: Know The Right Tools
Rapid application development tools could be what your app builders need for their next big project — if you know how to ask the right questions. (Click image for larger…
How Formula 1 and other ‘extreme contexts’ inform breakthrough innovations [Case Studies]
Understanding the essence of our context can be the key to innovation In my last year at University, I had one course that caused me major headaches: Project management.…
Friction Complicates Tech Adoption
Item: In a matter of a few years, we could have self-driving cars — brilliant machines that will whisk people to their destinations quickly and safely. Auto companies in Europe…
Gartner 2016: A grand vision, through CIOs’ eyes
CIO news roundup for the week of Oct. 17 DDoS attack. Sound the alarm: Netflix, Spotify, Twitter and Reddit were among the numerous websites hit by a wave of cyberattacks…
Why IoT Devices Need a Balance of Design and Data
The internet of things (IoT) has the potential to touch every aspect of our lives: from our bodies to our communities to our work places to a fully connected…
3 Keys to Meeting Today’s Talent and Tech Challenges
Business leaders across the spectrum agree that technology change and the need for new and different skills in their organizations are the top two impediments to any growth strategy. A …
Moving the Crowd in a New Direction
The use of crowdsourcing is to engage and move the crowd towards a new direction, by encouraging out individual thinking and discovery, searching for combining these contributions; ones that…
Can You Prevent Your Idea from being Rejected?
When you have come up with great ideas the question is how to make them reality. In practice, I have learned that if they don’t fit your organizational goals,…
Software-as-a-Catalyst
Throughout its nearly 180-year history, John Deere has been an innovation leader. Its first product was a polished-steel plow that outperformed existing tools. And over the decades, the company’s research…
How Non-Tech Companies Are Joining the Software Revolution
Most of the companies voted most innovative in our 2016 Global Innovation 1000 study are in the midst of a transformational journey. They are putting more of their RD investment…
The Marketer’s Dilemma
Massive shifts are afoot in media and marketing. Sectors that didn’t exist a few years ago — social media, native advertising, and in-app advertising, to name a few —…
Four Tracks to Market Leadership
Within a single decade, the music industry underwent a revolution in which digital upstarts triumphed over the market leaders. In 2006, record labels generated US$9.4 billion in CD sales in…