Businesses that are surviving are those that were either prepared or those that pivoted quickly, innovated, and found ways to keep delivering value for their customers. The business world has been significantly disrupted by the pandemic. During situations of macro disruption, most people look for ways to first survive and eventually emerge from the circumstances…
There is no arguing that in today’s marketplace companies must innovate to survive. There is more pressure now than at any other time in history for innovation, especially if companies want to be industry leaders. This is because rapidly changing technology is continually driving changes in markets and shifting trends in customer behavior and expectations….
When I work with companies on innovation projects, whether it’s industry-changing new products and services or smaller-scale ideas to streamline internal processes, I often see leaders and their teams struggling to freely ideate and really dive into the brainstorm process. When they do finally get there, it’s a big aha moment, but it takes a…
The way we work and learn has changed significantly in the past year with the current climate of our society. Yet even before a tumultuous 2020, business and the way we prepare our students for the working world was changing rapidly with advances in technology and the shift toward a gig economy. Some studies now…
It has been said, the best way to find your way around a new location quickly is to ask for ideas. As many of us are working from “new locations,” ideas are more important than ever. How do you capture ideas during crisis? What is the best way to manage those ideas? How do you…
The circumstances of 2020 have seen businesses push to increased virtual communication and online offerings. How do you compete in this new attention economy, especially with so much noise? With the explosion of virtual business during the COVID-19 lockdown, one of the biggest annoyances people have is the rash of messages they are seeing and…
4 Questions to Quantify Your Next Innovation Originally published September 15, 2017, with Innovation Enterprise. You have an idea to solve a problem or opportunity, whether it be a new process for your department or even a new business idea. So how do you figure out if your idea will actually work and if it’s…
In this article, we will look at how to identify and understand employee contributions, and learn how to work with idea generators, evaluators, and activators. The key to recovering from a business crisis is creating new value—whether it be new products or services, improving processes to be more efficient and save money, or identifying and…
90 Seconds of Innovation Podcast · What Are You Worried About? Innovation expert Dr. Evans Baiya says to make a list of the things you’re worried about in order to prioritize what needs to be done. You can then create opportunities from those worries. Episode Transcript What are you worried about? I’m sure you’re…
We’ve been going about it all wrong. Ensure your employees are a true match for the job description. Episode Transcript Today, we have a question: why is organizing people such a pain? Let me tell you why. Because we have been thinking about how to administer people the wrong way, the old way. The right…
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