by Don Creswell | Feb 4, 2015 | Innovation Management, ValuePoint™
Connecting Innovation with Finance to Drive Profitable Growth In a continuation of last month’s reflection on a panel session at the Back End of Innovation (BEI) conference, “Connecting Innovation with Finance to Drive Profitable Growth”, we discuss what needs to...
by Don Creswell | Jan 15, 2015 | Innovation Management, ValuePoint™
David Matheson, President and CEO of SmartOrg, was recently joined by Arpit Dwivedi of 3M, Jeff Pierce from Pitney Bowes, Aleksandro Grabulov from Philips and Rich Duncombe formerly of HP and now with ICS, in a session titled Connecting Innovation with Finance to...
by David Matheson | Mar 6, 2014 | Innovation Management
Thanks to the advent of Big Data, companies are collecting more facts than ever before — about their industry, clients, future clients, the economy, real estate, the state of their organizations — physically and fiscally. Business decision makers can no longer plead...
by David Matheson | Nov 20, 2013 | Innovation Management
Dennis Hong Dr. Dennis Hong of RoMeLa presented a very entertaining keynote at BEI13. I had an opportunity to chat with him following his talk and asked a few questions about his inspirations and how he designs and builds his robots. Here is a short summary of our...
by David Matheson | Nov 2, 2012 | Innovation Management
Lego nearly went bankrupt because of its innovation. Looking for new growth around the turn of the century, they took expert advice on how to grow through innovation and tried everything: open innovation, disruptive innovation, blue ocean, walking in their customers...
by David Matheson | Oct 26, 2012 | Innovation Management
At the recent Back End of Innovation conference, Ron Adner, author of The Wide Lens, gave real insight into one of the holy grails of innovation: how can you be successful when you need to create a new ecosystem? The almost tired example of the iPod illustrates what...
