Insights

Innovation

From Trust to Innovation

A great leader envisions success and recognizes that its path relies on the talents of others. With the right talent and approach, “success” can often exceed the vision.

Hard Lessons for a Soft Drink

What the "New Coke" failure teaches us about innovation

As innovation junkies, we spend a lot of time studying success stories. Which got us to thinking recently about the flip side — the blunders, and what we learn from them. 

Gambling on Innovation

How Business Intelligence Helped Caesars Out-Think the Recession

How to Create More Room for Innovation

Build a bigger box

Magic Beans

Psychometric tools that predict employee success

Once upon a time America’s industries measured productivity in tons of steel, board feet of wood, or cars off the assembly line.  Now, our economy relies on ideas – marketing, service, and information. Increasingly, our employees are our product. 

Game-Changer

What college football can teach us about innovation

You’ll be reading this just after the Super Bowl, when America’s gridiron heroes have hung up their cleats for another season, but I’m writing in December, and the college football national championship game has yet to be played. 

The Genius of Madness

Visionary entrepreneur Elon Musk made big dreams a reality.  Will you?

The observation that genius and insanity are two sides of a coin dates at least to the ancient Greeks.  A Swedish study in May proclaimed the line between insanity and creativity “wafer thin.”

High-Speed Innovation

Will ultra-fast broadband be the backbone of U.S. inventiveness?

The Next Empire

What the Asian markets can teach us about innovation

As this issue goes to bed, my family and I are in Italy, a land noted for great coffee, pasta, wine and art.  It’s a nation whose defining culture once ruled the western world, and it has, in spite of its recent economic issues, much to recommend it for the tourist.  The falling euro doesn’t hurt either.

History’s Lessons

When it comes to innovation, CEOs can learn a lot from ages past

History, so they say, we are doomed to repeat, unless we learn its lessons. When it comes to innovation, by definition we won’t be repeating ourselves – but perhaps we still can learn from its history.