Innovation Programs Are Good, Just Not Good Enough.
Like most big companies, you’ve probably run or are currently running, at least one internal innovation program. It might be small workshops, departmental level programs, the rollout of an enterprise idea management…
October 7, 2018How To Pick Winning Ideas For Your Innovation Lab.
Your innovation labs existential question: which idea is the billion-dollar idea? The biggest problem I’ve seen companies struggle with, once they have launched an innovation program, is not a low number of…
April 15, 20183 Reasons You Are Not Innovating.
In a survey of CFOs completed by Robert Half last fall, the main reasons why innovation is floundering comes down to three main points: Bureaucracy By this, we mean the long and…
March 10, 2018The Future of Shopping: Are you Ready for Conversational Commerce?
Welcome to the Future of Shopping. Are you Ready For It? Lately, we’ve looked out at the near future and determined that there are several huge sociological, economic and technological shifts that…
March 16, 20176 Ways You Too Can Build the Next Snapchat
Can You Build The Next Snapchat? A few weeks ago, SNAP – the parent company of Snapchat, went IPO. It’s the first tech IPO in a long time, and it nearly doubled…
March 14, 2017This Is Not The Post You Are Looking For…
Enough With The Good Feels. GooFMeLT Is Making Us Post Crap. About an hour ago, I finished writing an article for thinkfuture pulse and pressed schedule to schedule it for tomorrow at 6…
November 29, 2016Just Forget Innovation: Think Disruption Instead
It’s Official, Folks: The Time For Disruption Is Here Do you know how they say that the moment that you publish a book, it’s outdated? Well, for innovation, that’s doubly true. While…
August 18, 2016Forget VR and AR: Focus On Manipulated Reality (MR) Instead
What Will Reality Be? How do you predict the future? There are many ways, of course, but here are two which seem to work well for some things: You take something that…
January 14, 201615 Ways to Wreck Your Innovation Program
How Wreckable Is Your Innovation Program There are probably a few hundred ways in which to wreck your internal innovation program, so it took me a while to distill this down to…
December 16, 2015The Balancing Act of a Visionary Innovator
How To Balance Being Visionary and Pragmatic Innovation is crucial in product lifecycle, especially to a company’s long-term relevancy. The definition of a visionary innovator does not hinge on having a disruptive-only…
December 10, 2015