January 30, 2008

The Evolution of RFID

With recalls of food and toys in the past six months, we depend more than ever on RFID to track the origins of compromised items. This technology has always amazed me, and I take particular interest in how it has evolved and will evolve in the future by keeping up with a group called AIM [...]

January 27, 2008

Delivering Game-Changing Innovation Racine, Wisconsin

[ February 20, 2008; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ]

Cheryl Perkins is the keynote speaker and special guest of the Downtown Racine Corporation’s SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY SERIES, titled, “Delivering Game-Changing Innovation.” The event is co-sponsored by S.C. Johnson. Cheryl’s presentation covers:

• The innovation imperative

• Innovation opportunities

• Lifecycle of innovation

• Innovation model and principles

• Case studies of the most innovative companies

Wednesday
February 20, 2008
5:30 - 7:00 [...]

January 22, 2008

An update on our Russia partnership

I promised to update you on Innovationedge’s collaboration with Russia’s International Science and Technology Center (ISTC). As you know, we announced our partnership with InnovationPoint to work on a multi-year contract to help some of the most innovative minds in Russia –many of whom are former U.S.S.R. weapons scientists and engineers—to redirect their talents [...]

January 21, 2008

WEBINAR: An Introduction to Stage Gates Location: your office!

[ January 30, 2008; 9:00 am to 10:00 am. ]
 

Join us for our next Webinar! DATE: 31 Jan 2008 10:00 - 11:00 ET
 

2008 Webinar Series
Innovationedge and Pure Insight have partnered to bring together thought leaders from business, consulting and academia who will share their insights, methods and best practices with you in a simple, inexpensive and convenient format.
About this webinar
Why are [...]

Can Two Rights Make a Wrong?: Insights from IBM’s Tangible Culture Approach

 By Sara J. Moulton Reger
This is the book for people who never get past page two of a management book—it is as close as the genre comes to being a compulsive page-turner. Its main thesis is built on at least three big ideas that are individually persuasive and cumulatively compelling. They naturally fit into an [...]

The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company

 by Constance L. Hays
 In The Real Thing, New York Times reporter Constance L. Hays examines a century of Coca-Cola history through deft portraits of the charismatic, driven men who used luck, spin, and the open door of enterprise to turn a beverage with no nutritional value into a remedy, a refreshment, and the world’s best-known [...]

New Product Development for Dummies

By Robin Karol, Ph.D., NPDP and Beebe Nelson, Ed.D., NPDP
 Looking to improve your product development process? Author Robin Karol brings you a practical, behind-the-scenes guide that provides the edge you need to develop and launch new products or services. No matter your size or type of business, you get tips for generating winning ideas, satisfying [...]

Leadership Without Borders

By Ed Cohen
Business leaders in today’s borderless global marketplace face unprecedented challenges. The emergence of the knowledge economy has demanded that business leaders become global leaders. Successful global leaders are those with strategies for guiding and empowering a diversified workforce operating in different countries, cultures, and time zones so that they can maximize the [...]

January 18, 2008

Avon calling on innovative partnership

Here’s a great example of how Open Innovation partnerships deliver new opportunities for success. Avon Products, Inc. has teamed up with award-winning television host and best-selling author with Suze Orman. The renowned personal finance expert will serve as a Special Personal Finance Advisor to the company’s sales reps, offering them money management advice and strategies [...]

January 15, 2008

Cleaning green goes mainstream

One of the trends I’ll talk more about in 2008 is the movement toward eco-friendly consumer products. Our “alpha mom” is beginning to demand household cleansers that she trusts are not only safe for her home and her family, but won’t deplete the budget. One company is filling that need in a big way:
Clorox is [...]