In my book, Conquering Innovation Fatigue: Overcoming the Barriers to Personal and Corporate Success, we discuss some of the ways our corporate efforts have gone stale. One of those ways is embedded in our corporate cultures that tell our people, “Not Invented Here.” Those three little words ought not be! There is a whole lot…
Imagine a grocery store sending zero waste to the landfill. That’s what is happening in the UK with Sainsbury’s stories. “Last summer Sainsbury’s achieved its 20×20 sustainability target of putting all its store waste to positive use – and diverting it from landfill. All general waste from stores is recycled or turned into fuel. Surplus…
A new tool is helping to enable better collaborations between data science personnel and corporate workers. Adatao is offering a more comprehensive solution that lets business leaders and data scientists work together more easily by enabling businesses to use one single tool across the organization with real-time collaboration across departments: The service is split into…
A company in the UK is using nanotechnology to capture light, and achieve new levels of range and sensitivity in a breakthrough “super black” material. Check this out: Vantablack – created by Surrey NanoSystems – is revolutionary in its ability to be applied to lightweight, temperature-sensitive structures such as aluminium whilst absorbing 99.96% of incident…
Join us for the live online webinar for free! Thursday, September 4, 2014, 8am China Standard Time (Wednesday, September 3, 2014, 8pm EDT) Check your local time for the webinar here. Enhance your business in China and learn about resources and opportunities available for your company The conference will focus on promotion of trade support…
As Open Innovation goes mainstream, the players are doubling down on exciting new market expansions, creative crowdsourcing and higher returns! But how will you embrace these cutting-edge methods without risking everything? Find out why the big winners in Open Innovation are going beyond just choosing the right partners. The pioneers are moving forward – but…
Ever wondered what the future of flying will look like? Futurists say that by 2039, flying halfway around the world will change even more. Even now, what was once a 13-hour journey has become a seven-hour flight. Take a look at this: Read more by clicking here: Post by InnovationEdge.
This tiny swarm is not thousands of bees, but thousands of robots called Kilobots. I saw this via Harvard University in a study that is quite amazing. The swarm can self-assemble into any two-dimensional shape, and can have all sorts of interesting applications. What we’re looking at is actually the first steps toward an entire…
For those of you who have never heard of Snapchat, a social media platform that is here today and gone…today, there might be a gem or two you can glean for your business with this app. Did you know that more than 400 million messages are received on Snapchat every day? That gets my attention….
My friend Robert Tucker has put together what I think is a great list of the top innovation tools trending now, from ideation tools, commercialization tools, idea management tools, selection tools, and so forth. I like these because he includes case studies and real examples of how these tools are working in our current climate….
