Managing Corporate Innovation Programs is not easy and finding the right people who can lead the innovation initiative to success is not easy. It takes a unique set of skills to be a RockStar Innovation Leader. Just what kinds of skills does an Innovation Program... Read more
Businesses that are innovating regularly (and well) are the envy of those who know innovation is important, but not how to “get there.” A host of challenges can stand in the way – not least of which is a lack of understanding of the process of innovation,... Read more
It’s never easy to build internal buy-in around something new in an enterprise. And that difficulty is compounded when there’s an air of uncertainty around the how, when and why the ‘new something’ is being done. Innovation programs feel the brunt of this resistance,... Read more
AXA Chairman and CEO Henri de Castries knows the commitment it takes to innovate: “We will be able to transform innovation into business success only if we put all our energy in it,” he stated in a news piece on the global insurance/asset management company’s... Read more
It took three years for marketing intelligence giant Nielsen to admit their organically growing innovation program wasn’t taking the company far enough fast enough. As Stephanie Hegarty, Innovation Program Manager at Nielsen, puts it, “We weren’t there as a company,... Read more
The theme of this year’s Birds of a Feather (BOF) event, hosted by Dell in Austin, Texas, was “The Discipline of Innovation.” Discipline might seem an unlikely component of innovation, which many view as the byproduct of a creative spark that can’t be quantified or... Read more
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Gretchen Hoffman
Steve Bell