General Electric’s multi-billion dollar mistake
This is a great case study on the lack of future insight, but it’s only half complete. The author tells […]
Build Platforms Beyond Products and Services
When you run a platform on scale, you have to make sure it’s truly open. That way, not only do […]
Want to Dominate? – Then Create Your Evil Twin
Train like your stronger, fitter, faster evil twin is trying to kill you. – popular CrossFit saying Companies settle into what […]
Why Amazon is eating the world
Amazon is regularly put forth as one of the preeminent exemplars of the modern, innovative corporation and many have written […]
PTO Case Story – The Nike Fuel Band
Turn back the clock to January 2012. One of the world’s biggest brands, Nike, was about to embrace one of […]
Predictive Testing of Opportunities – Case Story Series
Mark Andreesen, co-founder of the Venture Capital firm Andreesen Horowitz, once said in his signature provocative style that, “there are […]
What made Xerox PARC special? Who else today is like them?
A short but interesting look at the early days of Xerox PARC (1970s). The author Alan Kay, was one of the […]
How Amazon Innovates in ways that Google and Apple can’t
Amazon is better at innovating outside their core than Google or Apple. Amazon successes – AWS, Prime, Echo, Go, etc. […]
Think Like You are Small: Creating an Existential and Permissive Mindset
One of the most discussed topics in innovation today is how to get large companies to behave more like startups […]
Breaking Through: A Mindset for Business Transformation
A privately-held, 75-year old business that owns more than 80% market share in their segment of food processing equipment was […]
Pursuing Whitespace Opportunities – An IRI Research on Research Project
In graphic arts, whitespace is characterized as negative space. It functions as an important design element, framing adjacent objects and […]
Developing New Eyes: Discovering Opportunities in a Well-Trodden Domain
We were literally out of ideas. Or good ideas anyway. Over the last five years, we had tried just about […]
Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer
Even though Apple is one of the most profitable companies on earth, is it actually in decline? This is the […]
Intel Made a Huge Mistake 10 Years Ago
Intel made a huge mistake 10 years ago. Now 12,000 workers are paying the price. So, Intel is getting out […]
Strategic Innovation in Biotech
At FEI2015, the annual Front-end of Innovation conference that took place May 18 – 20 in Boston. Brian Christian, Managing Partner of The Inovo Group, and Gayl Bunes of Cargill gave a talk on ‘Realizing the Promise of Biotechnology in the Food & Ag Sector’. This abridged version of the talk describes a strategic innovation project Cargill undertook in 2014 in collaboration with The Inovo Group.