Innovation. Every company wants it. Entire books have been written about it. Scores of business consultants make their living off it. And the press are always applying it as a label to whatever ...

Somewhere along the line I think we got confused about the true meaning of innovation. It’s supposed to solve real problems, create products that are useful and make our lives better. Most of the time ...

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 ...

The word “innovation” has become so all-encompassing that it’s lost some of its power, says Noah Brier, cofounder of Percolate. Here’s a new way to think about it. “For better or worse, the word ...

I hope you’re alarmed. I am. And I need your help. The word innovation is headed toward the same fate as “synergy,” “paradigm shift” or “best-of-breed.” These buzzwords were so out of control in their ...

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 ...

Last week, we introduced our model for viewing innovation from a team and organization perspective. The model, named the “Innovation Field,” is described in our bestselling book, The Seeds of ...

If you’re reading business bestsellers, you may also be underlining the passages that align with your beliefs. We all inadvertently flatter ourselves by nodding our heads and celebrating so-called ...

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 ...

Three recent articles by innovation experts suggest that the term has been so misused and abused by the innovation-obsessed that it has lost all meaning. According to Leslie Kwoh of The Wall Street ...

Consultants see legal teams moving beyond buying new technologies and instead looking to get the most out of the tools, and human resources, they already have. As the legal industry has become ...