My congrats to Kimberly-Clark for winning the coveted 2008 Visionary Award for SpaSensials, a fantastic innovative product!
SpaSensials was one of six finalists at the VISION 2008 Consumer Products Conference, organized by INDA, Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry. I was honored to champion this innovation while I worked at Kimberly-Clark, and am proud of the [...]

Did you know that innovator Henry Ford designed cars to run on biofuels?
This week, a biofuel first for the airline industry: A Virgin Atlantic jumbo jet flew between London’s Heathrow and Amsterdam using fuel derived from a mixture of Brazilian babassu nuts and coconuts!
Biofuels are any fuels made from living things, and we often think [...]

Imagine walking into a store and being greeted by a computer that reads the chip in your shirt and tries to sell you matching pants!
As technology expands, the innovative new products and services on the horizon will mean that untold amounts of our private information could become public.
As social-networking sites become a daily diary [...]

I’m gearing up for the Corporate Portfolio Management conference Clearwater Beach, Forida, where I will be talking about how to organize to deliver a pipeline of innovative solutions.
PDMA and IIRUSA are putting it together, and I’m excited to be gathering with presentors from corporations like Intel, Johnson & Johnson, American Express and Motorola as well [...]

I just got back from an exciting conference at the “Indira India Innovation Summit,” in Mumbai India.
It was a two-day extravaganza, and about 900 participants came from more than 60 countries and 900 to share their knowledge sharing and to help CEOs, Innovation and HR professionals from various organizations to learn the latest trends.
Not only [...]

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(Mumbai) February 15 – Cheryl Perkins, Founder and President of Innovationedge and former Chief Innovation Officer of Kimberly-Clark has received the “Excellence in Innovation” Award in recognition of her innovative contribution and leadership. The ceremony honored Perkins as well as other industry leaders at the Asia Pacific Congress, “Indira India Innovation Summit,” in [...]

The very nature of innovation demands all those involved to constantly be on the look out for the next big thing. But how do you identify it? How do you know it’s not just a fad? How can you ensure that innovation is at the heart of your corporate values?
Those are some of the questions [...]

IT outsourcing analysts have made big predictions for 2008 in the IT service market.
Experts expect the Indian rupee to continue its rise, keeping global IT service providers and customers on edge. Industry consolidation will continue. And as I’ve blogged recently, the offshore outsourcing market will continue to develop in India and beyond.
But will IT service [...]