You’ve heard that old adage – “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” The same holds true in creativity. We want to resist the temptation of judging ideas depending on where it came from. Yet, its very difficult for us to do this. If we like...
On December 3, 2014, the first session of the Entrepreneurship Educators Forum Webinar Series took place. The vision for the project is to create a meeting place for the community to discuss the challenges of teaching entrepreneurship, and to build an open-source...
Ideation or prioritization? Imagine you had a choice of being really good at one, but not the other. You could be a master at creating ideas, or you could excel at selecting winning ideas, but not both. Which would you choose? Two things intrigue me about this...
Innovation, like most other things in business, gets caught in the trap of “how do we measure results.” Innovation managers at Fortune 100 companies find themselves confronted with this question in their efforts to raise innovation capabilities. In the...
Mitch Ditkoff takes on the all important issue of how to fund innovation, and writes about innovation slush funds as a way improve innovation results: What I like about this approach is that it sidesteps the bureaucratic hokey pokey, run-it-up-the-flagpole, command...
