Innovation

From Lee Lister  Data Science and Business Information gathering are sometimes, erroneously, used as interchangeable terms. Both Data Science and Business Information gathering provide a great deal of added capabilities and benefits to your company, even though they are different. A few years ago Business Information, also known as BI, was the king of information…

From Jim McGriff, Jr.  My college fraternity president and I were reviewing the activities of our national convention and in particular the slogan, “The Courage to Lead.” He related to me how the General Fraternity had passed a very restrictive policy on the chapters. The leaders of the General fraternity expected him to come back…

From Puneet Bhatnagar  The world is far from perfect and many challenges are clamoring to be solved. A problem that should be the number one priority is food-waste management. According to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization report, one-third of food produced for human consumption is wasted. That amounts to a huge 1.3 billion tonnes…

From Yvette Dubel  I am not the first person to call attention to the connection between diversity inclusion and innovation. What I point towards that has been the more obvious blindspot is the need for personal innovation of leaders that addresses the problem with traditional diversity training. Before we get to that however, let’s take…

From Yvette Dubel  The Reality Creating deeply innovative organizations needs to replace the more simplistic view of creating organizations that are technically innovative, but perpetuate a business culture that is toxic and destructive. Too often this gets ignored until there are legal, financial, or public relations consequences at hand. As a result, brand risk management…

From Scott L. Johnson  It wasn’t that long ago that UBER came on the scene. Now just ten years later they are looking at a possible 120 billion valuation as an IPO. LYFT another Rideshare company started in 2012 now seven years later is valuated at 15.1 billion. Rideshare companies like Uber and LYFT were…

From Bill Stainton  For fifteen years, part of my job was to come up with creative ideas-every week, under extreme time pressure, with roughly a million people watching. I was good at it. Really good. But I didn’t start out being good at coming up with creative ideas under pressure. I had to learn. In…

From Lance Winslow  The other day, I was sitting with a group of college students at Starbucks, we were discussing startup businesses. They were brainstorming of what type of business to start. A guy in an ice cream truck pulled up and the driver ran into Starbucks. I joked as he ran by, “don’t you…

From Lance Winslow  Well, I have a pretty large personal library with more than 3 dozen books on innovation. It’s amazing how they all read about the same and all have nearly the same advice, especially when it comes to the ‘art of brainstorming’. Still, due to all the new social norms being taught in…

From Lance Winslow  In the real world outside of academia, we have the same problem where corporate employees are discouraged from thinking, trained to do things exactly as per the employee manual, BMPs (best management practices) of industry, or directions from their bosses, yet their bosses are doing the same thing? Is anyone – even…