Upcoming 2017 Innovation Conferences, Keynotes, and Workshops
We're going to be participating in quite a few of the best upcoming innovation events that may be of interest to you, including these ... Innova-Con 2017 The International Association…
20 Million Ideas to Greatness
Sooner or later it occurs to the leaders of nearly every organization that their own employees should be a source of ideas that can improve their businesses. They then set…
Creating Tomorrow, Geopolitics and Innovation
A couple of quite interesting books to consider for your next visit to the beach ... The Accidental Superpower, by Peter Zeihan Zeihan is a geopolitical consultant and strategist who…
Two New Books: The Innovation Formula and Soulful Branding
InnovationLabs and our partner firm FutureLab have two new books available for you, and we hope that you find them useful and interesting. The first, The Innovation Formula, is available…
Innova-Con Innovation Conference
You've undoubtedly noticed that the world is changing, and quickly. We took this photo in an airport a few years ago, and now here it is 2015 and lo and…
Driven to Death by the Rate of Innovation
We recently had a fascinating meeting with a prominent venture capitalist based in Palo Alto, and during the course of our conversation about the pressures that his portfolio companies are…
High Risk Innovation: Risked Big, Lost Bigger
Ron Johnson, the former head of Apple's magnificent and uber-profitable retail empire, left Apple to take over as CEO of JCPenney in late 2011. Johnson was brought in to transform…
Changing Your Business Model; Maybe It’s Not So Easy to Do
Ron Johnson was a huge success at Target, and an even bigger success at Apple, where he led the company's hugely profitable retail chain. So last year when he was…
The Innovation Master Plan: A New Book
I've just released a new book (shown above on the left), The Innovation Master Plan. Here's a short passage from the introduction: "Some executives look at the innovations that come…
Do “Lean” and “Innovation” Go Together?
Once the Toyota management system became more widely known by the single word “lean,” it became a fad and a mantra (and also a boon for authors and consultants…