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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Kevin Carroll’s Reading List
We are back from the very exciting and informative two-day http://www.cocastl.org/subpage.cfm?vSection=cocabiz&vPage=bizcamp hosted by St. Louis’ own COCA (Center of Creative Arts). We learned a lot and will share our insights with you on this blog over the coming weeks, but first I wanted to share the contents of the box that I won from Monday’s [...]
Follow Us From #COCAbiz
On Monday and Tuesday, I will be live tweeting from COCAbiz’s Business Creativity Conference 2011 “Play @ Work.” COCAbiz is the newly formed business training division of St. Louis’ Center of Creative Arts (COCA). Its mission is “to build a more creative, engaged and effective workforce by delivering innovative classes, workshops and events that pair [...]
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” [...]
Declare Your Support for Innovation in the United States
On July 4, 1776, our founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence. On July 4 this year, we ask that you sign the Declaration of Innovation. Sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association’s Innovation Movement (CEA), the Declaration of Innovation is an online pledge, open to Americans, in “support of policies that ensure innovation remains the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The World’s Most Admired Companies are Also the Most Innovative
Congratulations to the 350 companies that made this year’s Fortune magazine World’s Most Admired Companies list. According to Fortune, this year’s list is particularly interesting “now that the skies are clearing after the worst economic storm in modern history. … “Stress in the recession and financial crisis brought out traits that may not have been [...]