“Great companies, from an innovation standpoint, are the ones that are able to make their mental models—their mindsets—clear to the world,” Dr. Evans Baiya said. Session 2 of the BBB Greater West + Pacific Innovation Academy 2021 did not hold back. The cohort of 24 met with their coaches for the first time in April…
Everyone contributes to innovation at different levels and in different stages. Episode Transcript The question today is, is everyone an innovator? The answer is yes, yes, yes! Everyone is an innovator. How do I know that? We have what we call the Innovation Fitness™ Score. Everybody has an Innovation Fitness™ Score. In other words, we…
Are you looking for the next big thing? Searching for an idea that will attract new customers, improve your offerings, or simply give you a leg up on your competition? The good news is you probably have most of what you need already at your fingertips: Your employees will be the defining factor to your…
In this episode, Lori McNeill shares how to inspire innovation within your team. The secret? Working as a team. Episode Transcript Today’s question is: how to inspire innovation with your team? Well, I’ll tell you if you look back through history, innovation was never about just one person. It doesn’t matter what idea it was, it…
“Taking the work of Evans and Ron and The Innovator’s Advantage book and putting it into a course inside of an organization like this,” Dale Dixon, Chief Innovation Officer, said, “and going this deep with innovation with a group of people, creating a group of innovation champions—it really changed the way we operate as an…
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….
Michael McAllister discusses how innovation is crucial no matter your organization’s industry, and that innovation doesn’t necessarily mean disruption—even small, incremental innovations can be revolutionary. Video Transcript: Michael McAllister: I would say what most excites me about The Innovator’s Advantage is the idea and the concept that innovation is a cultural or a foundational topic….
Sam Fife, Director of Innovation at Better Business Bureau Great West + Pacific shares how the Innovator’s Advantage and the Innovation Fitness Assessment™ has impacted company culture and helped create a culture of innovation. Video Transcript Sam Fife: The biggest impact for me, I think, is realizing that everyone in the organization has so much…
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…
Decoding Innovation and The Innovator’s Advantage with Ron Price. Ron Price has co-written a new book with Dr. Evans Baiya called The Innovator’s Advantage: Revealing the Hidden Connection Between People and Process, due for release on April 11, 2017. We sat down with Ron to talk about what inspired the book and his collaboration with Evans….