What are the most urgent needs facing today’s leaders? I think it’s the dual need for business and organizational transformation in order to address the future challenges coming our way. I’m excited to be among a team of highly experienced coaches and leadership effectiveness experts leading a highly interactive leadership development experience this summer specifically…
If you are considering joining us for the Innovation & Growth Leadership Summit April 25-26, 2016 in Chicago, you will bring back an incredible wealth of knowledge and connections. By participating, you will receive actionable insights from top experts to help you unify and lead your organization. Check out the agenda! Your specific questions and…
These consumer behavior numbers might shock you, or they might inspire you to understand how you might study insights like these:
An exclusive interview with Jean E. Spence Former Executive Vice President, Research Development & Quality, Mondelez International, Inc. (formerly Kraft Foods, Inc.) Most firms today have had to change their game to compete. The economy, industry fragmentation, increasing cost of goods, consumer price-shopping, the Internet, globalization – the list of reasons goes on. While…
Our Innovationedge team is excited to invite you to our upcoming event: The Innovation & Growth Leadership Summit: Collaborating for Transformative Growth – Inside, Outside and Across Organizations, April 25-26, 2016 in Chicago has been designed to focus specifically on the challenges of senior R&D leadership. This one-of-a-kind Summit will bring together executives from organizations…
One of the areas our IE team watches is the Food and Beverage industry. The trends we’re seeing for the coming year continue to focus on health, but with a decadent spin. FoodBevMedia has posted these trends that you may want to watch – and sample: 10 indulgent US food and beverage trends for 2016…
Do you watch trends, or do you delegate that to someone else? My friend Robert Tucker is encouraging managers to redouble their trend-watching capabilities in response to an ever-increasing degree of technological, social and economic change: Here’s the good news: with a bit of focused attention, you can build skills in this area such that…
Would you live in a home made completely out of paper? It’s not flimsy by any means, when you consider the technology of 3-D printing that can make the architecture sturdy and even beautiful. Machine Design reports that several companies are building livable homes like these from the inside out using 3-D printing: The idea…
Here’s an exciting invention that uses nanotechnology and 3D printing – as a pen. It’s called CreoPop, and it’s not like most 3D pens I’ve seen. With CreoPop’s 3D printing pen in hand, you can create multi-dimensional pictures and structures freehand, in real time. CreoPop uses nanotechnology to provide an exciting range of inks including glittering…
Consumers of fast food meals are used to the drill: You eat, you throw your garbage away and you leave. But what about all those styrofoam cups? You can’t recycle expanded polystyrene, and it does not decompose in landfills. Good news: Chick-fil-A restaurant has found a way to answer that dilemma with an innovative solution….
