Innovation: It’s All About the Dots

Over the last thirty years, the importance of innovation as a core driver of business value has increased to the point where few CEOs would disagree. Unfortunately, most companies are not able to innovate in financially meaningful ways. And for those companies that...

Making Innovation Real – Tata Group

Vision, Capacity, Culture at the Tata Group Companies require three core competencies to make innovation real: vision, to bring innovation closely in alignment with strategy; capacity, to create the systems that can ensure that innovation is sustainable over time;...

Learning From Failures

How Can Failures Be Good for the Development of an Idea? In child development, the activity to get to learning is called making mistakes. In the field of science, the activity to get to a successful result is called experimenting. In entrepreneurship, the activity to...

When to Innovate? – Pfizer Story

The Innovation Pipeline and Pfizer Almost everybody schedules projects and initiatives with gate reviews and sequencing in place. But making an impact in innovation means going far beyond coming up with new product news for the next catalogue. It’s really about...

Crowdsourcing Part 1

Doing More for Less Wouldn’t it be incredible if you could buy a Lego version of Optimus Prime or the Batmobile? With Lego Cuusoo, you just might be able to. On April 23, 2011, Lego launched a crowdsourcing platform worldwide called Cuusoo where people post their Lego...