Ideas are the currency of the future and can come from anywhere, and Google probably knows this more than anyone right now! To help celebrate their 10th birthday, Google invited...

We are happy to bring you some of the key points and insights from Dr. Ellen Levy's talk at the Optimizing Innovation Conference, which was held October 21-22, 2009 in New York...

Innovation in the developing world, as many people may tend to think, comes from either large conglomerates or small entrepreneurial communities which have had the good fortune of...

Several years ago, an HR professional passed along a piece of wisdom warranting consideration by anyone who works: Lots of people claim twenty years experience, when what they...

by Damian Kernahan In the previous article of the Australian Innovation report (Summer 08), we spoke of customer-centric innovation being the management discipline for the new millennium and...

by Steve McKee What do you with a hotel brand that's become outdated, irrelevant, and in some ways a signal to stay away from the properties to which it's attached? If you're InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), owner of the Holiday Inn franchise, you...

by Kevin Roberts Don't you love it when scientists come out with studies proving the completely obvious? The advertising industry is not immune from such studies, as the American Association of Advertising Agencies has recently released a paper...

by Hutch Carpenter At a conference in Malaysia, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said the Suggested Users List (SUL), a boon in followers for anyone on it, will be going away sometime in the future: "That list will be going away," Stone said at a...

by Mike Brown I'm a proponent of spreading strategic thinking broadly in a company and not readily handing off strategy development to outside parties exclusively. Yet I've been a part of many examples where an outside perspective helped move strategy...

From Ideation to Collaboration to Execution by Robert F. Brands Innovation: What a great idea! Innovation thrives on a diet of news ideas. It needs fresh thinking and a different perspective from across the organization. We've noted that Innovation...