For most of the past 2500 years innovation was understood with a modifier: political innovation, social innovation, technological innovation, etc. The concept of innovation in general is, more than ...

Find out how industry experts define innovation and why they believe it's critical to every company's long-term success. Innovation. Every company wants it. Entire books have been written about it.

Innovation. I hear this word many times a day— innovation in healthcare, strategic innovation, or a call to be more innovative. According to a report cited by The Wall Street Journal, companies ...

Why is it that innovation is so hard to seriously talk about in most companies? Everyone agrees that it’s important. In fact, when IBM interviewed 1,500 CEOs on what they thought the most important ...

I love learning innovation so much that, along with my collaborator Eddie Maloney, we are trying to build a new interdisciplinary field. In higher ed, sometimes the best way to get some traction in ...

CIOs don't have to be idea people. They have to make ideas work.I'm following up on the excellent blog written by my colleague Mitch Wagner about Ram Charan's presentation here at the InformationWeek ...

One of the most important things my team at Penn GSE works on is our ongoing endeavor to understand and theorize education innovation ecosystems, even as we build one. My years in edtech (see my last ...

To grow our economy, we need to stop unicorn hunting, and reset why innovation matters. We must give “innovation” back its broader meaning. Today, many people think of innovation only as the creation ...

Somewhere along the line I think we got confused about the true meaning of innovation. It’s supposed to solve real problems, create products that are useful and make our lives better. Most of the time ...

"The definition of insanity is repeating the same actions over and over again and expecting different results." This quote, often misattributed to Albert Einstein, is what I consider a perfect ...

What is an innovation manager? An innovation manager is an employee whose responsibilities focus on the development of new products, services or processes. IT innovation is the lifeblood of the ...

Innovation culture is the work environment that leaders cultivate to nurture unorthodox thinking and its application. Workplaces that foster a culture of innovation generally subscribe to the belief ...