Food industry leaders are leveraging trends and consumer insights to design new innovative products and packaging, based on our ever-increasing focus on health, fitness and convenience. I’ve noticed that even the way we think more globally has touched off an explosion of new flavor ideas that are now being marketed and introduced into our consciences [...]

I’m intrigued by the lessons learned from last week’s Process for Innovation conference in Chicago. The event was well attended by many different industries.  I was there to present a course on metrics, focusing on showing attendees how to determine when to start leveraging innovation metrics and which metrics should be in their portfolio. (Most [...]

I’m looking forward to an internet event this October 11, in which I am teaming up with Mike Docherty of Venture2 to kick off a new Webinar series on Open Innovation.  We’ve been invited to create and deliver this series by Pure Insight, a business that helps other companies respond to global and competitive pressures by giving them access [...]

[ October 11, 2007; 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm. ] Do you know how to deploy open innovation at your company? Do you know what leading companies have done to establish successful open innovation efforts?
Cheryl Perkins and Innovationedge will team up with Mike Docherty of Venture2 to present this exciting Webinar series on Open Innovation. Join us online for our introductory presentation October 11  (11 a.m. [...]

This has been an exciting week for us at Innovationedge, as we’ve welcomed two new members to our team. I won’t write here about their long list of impressive work, but I encourage you to click on these links to Jeff Lindsay and Roy Luebke to read more about their proven track records and abilities [...]

[ October 18, 2007; ] Those who successfully navigate the fuzzy front end of innovation give us many clues into what works and what doesn’t. Cheryl is the keynote speaker for this year’s Tri-State PDMA conference titled, “The Front End of Innovation.” The event is October 18 in Cincinnati. Cheryl shares her expertise on a strategic change formula that will enable [...]

[ September 19, 2007; ] Join Cheryl Perkins for this one-day innovation workshop and panel discussion featuring innovation leaders from Motorola, Kimberly-Clark, Rockwell Collins Avionics, Viasys NeuroCare, Cardinal Health, Bou-matic and Applied Marketing Concepts.

The event will be held in Madison, Wisc., hosted by the Product Development & Management Association’s Wisconsin Chapter.

Topics include Business Intelligence and New Product Development, Working the Squares and Adding [...]

(Appleton, Wis) August 13, 2007 — Innovationedge is pleased to announce that Roy Luebke has joined the team as Director of Capability Development. As a respected innovation leader, Luebke brings more than 25 years of experience in innovation management, strategic marketing and business development for Fortune 50, as well as start-up ventures. He is an expert at using structured innovation techniques to discover, analyze and interpret user-centered insights and disruptive new products, services and business models.

(Appleton, Wis.) August 13, 2007 — Jeffrey D. Lindsay, Ph.D., a leading researcher and expert in Intellectual Asset law and strategy, is joining the Innovationedge team. As Director of Solutions Development, Lindsay will work with inventors from all over the world to bring their new-to-the-world solutions to market including products, services and new business models. He will leverage his expertise to align the solutions and their intellectual assets to the strategic business goals of each inventor.

I’ve just finished a very good book written by Charles Koch (pronounced “Coke”), the CEO of Koch Industries. It’s titled, The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World’s Largest Private Company. I’m putting it on my must-read book list.

I completely agree with Koch that vision is not a one-time statement of goals and [...]