Tue.Sep 04, 2018

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Transformation Takes More Than Ideas, Behaviors Also Need To Change

Innovation Excellence

Stories of innovation usually follow a simple, but common narrative. Someone gets an idea, figures out how to make it work and changes the world. Yet that is rarely how it actually happens. Far more often, someone comes up with a great idea and it never gets off the ground because no one is willing.

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Workplace Environments that Inspire Innovation

IdeaScale

A great deal of thought has been given to office design. Company leaders are constantly trying to create a workplace that improves employee happiness, productivity, and creativity. To add fuel to that fire, in a recent survey of over 2,500 U.S. professionals , “Eighty-two percent of participants said that a workplace must exhibit innovative design in order to truly foster a culture of innovation where they can do their best thinking.

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Top 20 Innovation Articles of August 2018

Innovation Excellence

Drum roll please… At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish a weekly Top 8 as part of our FREE email newsletter. Did your favorite make the cut? But enough delay, here are August’s twenty most.

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Increase your Luck | Tina Seelig

Rmukesh Gupta

Watch Tina Seelig , a Stanford professor, teaching entrepreneurship, talk about how to make our own luck. Its a simple two step process: . Take small risks and go outside our your comfort zone. Look at everything you experience through a lens of possibility. . Small 11 min video but when implemented can make a big impact on our lives. Watch it here. .

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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The Problem With Australian Innovation Programs: and Lessons for Other Countries (Part 2 in series)

InnovationManagement

Over the past few months I have been spending time with a range of Australian companies, getting to better understand their business models and approaches to innovation. While there is plenty of good news for the Australian economy and innovation practices ( see my previous article ), there is a justified sense of concern that the economy will not be able to maintain sustained, robust growth as the global economy transitions into an era of exponential competition.