June’s Harvard Business Review features a story by Procter & Gamble Chief Technology Officer Bruce Brown and me on “How P&G Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate.” The article’s core message is that P&G achieved that result by approaching the creation of new growth businesses in a highly systematic way, building what Brown and I call [...]
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Our eyes are underrated innovation tools. It’s easy to get caught up in a whirlwind of activities and miss opportunities that are literally right in front of your face. Make a regular habit of just standing and watching. You may be surprised by what you see. Here’s how it worked for me recently. This Monday, [...]
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As the price of gasoline chugs toward an all-time high, there’s more incentive than ever to innovate new ways of getting around without the stuff. Given all the grief at the pump, the production of electric vehicles seems to be ramping up at just at the right time. Yet it’s still not clear how widely [...]
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One tried-and-true innovation trick is to look for analogies. When you feel like you’re working on an intractable problem, find someone who has already solved the problem, but in a different context. Apply their learning to your situation, and see where it takes you. Let’s practice by using this approach on the act of innovation [...]
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Tribeca Film Festival creative director Geoffrey Gilmore with founders Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro. I had the chance to attend this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, where Innosight founder Clay Christensen keynoted the annual Disruptive Innovation Awards. The event fit right into the festival’s new ethos, which is about leveraging technology to solve some of [...]
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