Over the last few years, we’ve written a lot about leveraging innovation for success during the recent recession. But what about after the recession, as companies assess the damage and start to rebuild? According to a recently released study of chief marketing officers (CMOs) by IBM, innovation is actually going to be more important than [...]
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The CMO of the Future
CGI America Delivers Innovative Solutions to U.S. Economic Problems
According to ABCNews.com, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said today that “dealing with (the White House) the last couple months has been like dealing with Jell-O. Some days it’s firmer than others. Sometimes it’s like they’ve left it out over night.” So, with the democrats and republicans unable to negotiate, who can we turn to [...]
Can Innovation Be Learned?
On Wednesday, the Harvard Business Review posted a video interview with Brigham Young University (BYU) Professor Jeff Dyer about learnings from his upcoming book, The Innovator’s DNA. In the video, Dyer discusses the ways people innovate. He and his co-authors, Clayton Christensen, of Harvard Business School, and Hal Gregerson, of INSEAD, found five “discovery skills” [...]
5 Innovation Lessons from Solar Roadways
When the Federal Highway Administration solicited proposals for a new pavement system that could generate power and pay for itself over its lifetime, Scott and Julie Brusaw stepped up to the challenge with their Solar Roadways™, a road made entirely of solar panels, and received a $100,000 grant. According to SolarRoadways.com, “the Solar Roadway is [...]
9 Tips for Organizational Change Management
On Tuesday, Neal Conan of NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” interviewed the leaders of two different institutions about the challenges they faced while undergoing recent organizational change. The first was Alan Merten, president of George Mason University (GMU) in Northern Virginia for the last 16 years, and the second was Wright Lassiter III, CEO of [...]
Developing New Business Ideas is No Easy Feat
According to The Wall Street Journal, every year the big four TV networks receive “elevator pitches” for 500 TV plot lines. Of these, only four to eight become new series. And only one or two of those will have multiple seasons. Some won’t even have multiple episodes. This is just one example of how hard [...]
Is the Problem with the U.S. Education System Not Enough Play?
Over the course of the past decade, we’ve been flooded with news and reports of the United States’ demise in terms of innovation and global competitiveness. Each one of these reports shares grim statistics about problems with U.S. education, including poor reading, science and math scores and low high school graduation rates as compared to [...]
Introducing FH InvisionateSM: Engaging with Your Key Stakeholders
Since its inception more than five years ago, FH Innovation has been dedicated to helping our clients deliver the greatest possible value to their stakeholders, always. Today, in honor of World Creativity and Innovation Week, we’re pleased to introduce our latest tool for developing more creative and differentiated thinking: FH InvisionateSM, which helps our clients [...]
A Plea for Collaboration
In case you haven’t heard, the U.S. government is on the brink of a shutdown. If the White House and Congress don’t come to an agreement on this year’s budget by midnight tonight, 800,000 government jobs will be furloughed, soldiers will not be paid and vital government services will be interrupted. Blame, of course, is [...]
Tackling the World’s Biggest Challenges with Design
Wouldn’t it be great if we could change the world with design? That is exactly what IDEO plans to do with the creation of IDEO.org, a new 501c3 corporation. IDEO.org is built out of the understanding that the same thinking used to design new products, services and models for business can be used to design [...]