The first secret is that no matter how hard you try, you can’t install innovation in an individual. At its core, being an ...

I love learning innovation so much that, along with my collaborator Eddie Maloney, we are trying to build a new interdisciplinary field. In higher ed, sometimes the best way to get some traction in ...

For most of the past 2500 years innovation was understood with a modifier: political innovation, social innovation, technological innovation, etc. The concept of innovation in general is, more than ...

Why is it that innovation is so hard to seriously talk about in most companies? Everyone agrees that it’s important. In fact, when IBM interviewed 1,500 CEOs on what they thought the most important ...

To grow our economy, we need to stop unicorn hunting, and reset why innovation matters. We must give “innovation” back its broader meaning. Today, many people think of innovation only as the creation ...

Innovation. I hear this word many times a day— innovation in healthcare, strategic innovation, or a call to be more innovative. According to a report cited by The Wall Street Journal, companies ...

KANSAS CITY — The phrase “if you can’t beat them join them” comes to mind when thinking about the latest trend a number of large food and beverage manufacturers have embraced to spur growth — the ...

In my recent book, Theories of Social Innovation, I propose different approaches to conceptualizing and understanding social innovation to move beyond futile efforts to agree on a single definition, ...

More school reporting from blogger Elizabeth Lyon-Ballay of Bella Vista on the growing use of waivers from school standards for not only charter schools but also schools operated by conventional ...

Professor Gary Hamel, founder of the Strategos Consulting Firm and a visiting professor at Harvard Business School, Stanford University, the University of Michigan, and the London Business School, ...

Often our clients ask us: how do we know if we are an innovative organization and how can we measure if we are improving? Based on our experience practicing, teaching, and consulting in Innovation ...