Innovation in Practice: One Year Later

A year of blogging in the innovation space has taught me a few things: Blogging is discovery. There are a lot of very bright people out there with many useful insights about how to make innovation happen. I’m impressed with the diversity of views as well as the...

Complementary Innovation

Companies are enamored with chasing “white space opportunities.” White space is the nickname for new, undiscovered growth segments. It spins the notion that opportunity lies just ahead of us. Telling colleagues you are working on white space opportunities...

The LAB: Demonstration of Task Unification (July 2008)

Welcome to The LAB. This month, we will focus on Task Unification. This tool is one of five templates in the S.I.T. method of innovation. The tool works by taking a component of a product or service and assigning it an additional task or job. What I need from one of...

The LAB: Innovation in Real Time

The readership of this blog has steadily grown, and it’s time to start demonstrating how innovation works…in real time. Once each month, I will post The LAB. This is where we will use a specified innovation tool on a product or service that is suggested by...