Small-business owners play an important leadership role in identifying and applying new technologies. By investing in initiatives that enable them to deliver effective and efficient products and ...

Breakthroughs in your company's management processes--such as creation of intellectual property, brand building, talent development--deliver potent competitive advantages. By perfecting the industrial ...

Managing innovation is terrifying. It’s terrifying for many different reasons, but here I’ll just outline four: 1) Expectations are huge; 2) Resistance to change is not insignificant; 3) The need for ...

What does innovation mean? It used to relate mainly to products, and that's still important. But over the last decade or so, businesses have been putting more and more emphasis on innovating new ...

Creating innovative technical products requires an engineering organization that fosters the natural innovative spirit of engineers and meets stakeholder expectations. Engineers are natural innovators ...

Innovation is very difficult for many companies around the world. Companies tend to be too risk averse; they don't learn from their mistakes; they focus too much on incremental improvements; they have ...

Successful innovation in a commercial enterprise is a matchmaking exercise that establishes a long-term marriage between a business opportunity and a new or emerging technology. Every company wants to ...

Process matters. In fact, any start-up is searching not only for the modern phrase “product-market fit”—a proven solution to a problem that people will pay to fix—but also for a process for achieving ...