In the first post of this series on innovation our guest blogger, Dr. Michael Murray, addressed the question: Innovation: What is It Really? This month, Dr. Murray’s post examines who the innovators are. The answer is more than you would expect. Read More

Innovation is the way of life.  Our species has been innovating for hundreds of thousands of years.
With all that experience, why can innovation seem so amoeba-like: tough to wrap your arms around, messy to manage with ever-moving boundaries?  Read More

When Bulldog Reporter posted Innovation Matters: Biz Leaders Excel at Getting Innovation to Market—but Companies Aren’t Seeing ROI, I was simultaneously thrilled and disheartened. Thrilled with the report that almost two-thirds of global organizations see innovation as central to survival; disheartened that just 28% report success in innovation driving growth and increased revenue.  Read More

Innovation has been in the spotlight recently.  Again.   But not in the usual celebratory, award-winning sort of way.  Rather, it was failure to innovate that was getting attention. Read More

March means…

Signs of spring? …not this year if you live in the northeast and are facing 30” of snow…
March Madness? Yes, in basketball, St. Patrick’s Day, “Spring Forward” and more…
SXSW? Again, yes. And could this be madness of another sort? Read More

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so the saying goes.
Considering insights from the recent study by Saatchi and Saatchi of the “middle states”, the same might be said also when it comes to innovation.  Read More

Do you feel that pulse?!
It may be the bias of my passion for the marketing and advertising business that drives me to enthuse about the innovation – or at least the potential to innovate – that is at the heart of it.
 
New product development, restaging a dated product, generating brilliant and breakthrough creative, discovering new markets, and so many more opportunities to innovate: the possibility for building something truly novel is a rush, Read More