article thumbnail

These companies failed because leaders did not want to hear bad news: The Ostrich Effect

Idea to Value

This can be especially dangerous when the problem they are avoiding is that they are being disrupted , other companies are out-innovating them, an important project is off-target or performance KPIs are falling behind. The fear that froze the company came from two places. Volkswagen.

article thumbnail

Innovation 2015 or Five Lame Excuses?

Gregg Fraley

Here’s the thing, like the inept and psychologically damaged journalist Jimmy Olsen, even a dysfunctional company that heretofore hasn’t managed to get innovation going can start now. Now is the time to impact 2015. Projects are what change culture. But at the heart of it, it’s about ongoing projects.

LEAN 40
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The 2015 Breakthrough Innovation Report

Innovation in Practice

Nielson released its 2015 BREAKTHROUGH INNOVATION REPORT that features best practices from winning brands – with seven specific case studies from Pepsico, Kraft, MillerCoors, Kellogg’s, Nestle Purina, Atkins and L’Oreal Paris. The Nielsen Breakthrough Innovation Project has examined over 20,000 new product launches over the past four years.

Report 40
article thumbnail

Accelerating Clean Energy Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

This 2050 target is in line with the 2015 Paris Agreement, the foundations of global consensus to limit the rise in global temperature to 1.5c. The acceleration that is needed also requires a large increase in investment in demonstration projects. Most of these projects are concerned with the electrification of end?uses,

Report 345
article thumbnail

Five Barriers to the Innovation Process and How to Overcome Them

IdeaScale

This, by far, is the most common challenge faced across companies. If a company developed a way of doing things in 2015, then it was likely the ideal one at the time. Similarly, if they have one good idea, why does it matter if it doesn’t have company? Challenges in “Buy-In”. Yet that’s a long time ago.

article thumbnail

How the GSAs 10X Program Advances Government Innovation

IdeaScale

This makes the GSA a mix of procurement office, logistics company, property manager, and auditor across one of the most complex organizations on Earth. And in 2015, that was what the GSA set out to encourage more of. In 2015, the GSA held what was intended to be a one-off event called “The Great Pitch.”

article thumbnail

Celebrating Achievements: A Recap of Customers Honored at Planview Accelerate 2023

Planview

Here is a brief look into this year’s winners: Chevron Nicolas Cooper, Portfolio Strategy Senior Analyst Chevron’s Environmental Management Company (EMC) manages remediation and asset retirement obligations for over 650 sites across the United States.

Agile 59