"When you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there." - from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland Once again, its that time of year when organizations begin to take stock of where they have been the past year and start looking...

Wharton released an interesting article this week called "Can Lean Co-Exist with Innovation?" In essence, the article walks through how Lean and Innovation play contributing roles in the complete product development lifecycle.  Overall, it is a...

I was incredibly fortunate to be one of a very select handful of innovation thought-leaders invited to the 3M Customer Innovation Center yesterday for a behind the scenes look at how and why 3M innovates.  This visit moved me in a totally unexpected...

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."  - Thomas Edison I recently ran across an organization...a current Fortune 500 organization...that is dead.  That's right...dead.  Oh...you...

I was recently given a copy of "Innovation Passport - The IBM First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) Journey from Research to Reality" by Mary Jo Frederich and Peter Andrews, and I realized the depth of my innovation "geekness" when I flew through it in one sitting! ...