To boost innovation just keep the boss away!

Billions of dollars are spent on developing and launching new consumer packaged goods (CPG) products each year, and some companies see tremendous success while others – don’t.  Why?  One secret appears to lie in the degree of senior management involvement in the creative process, according to a study by The Nielsen Company. 

Nielsen’s research of [...]

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How a Corporate Innovation Camp Works

I recently helped facilitate a corporate innovation camp for Amdocs, a $3B software and services company that supplies mobile service providers.   It took place over four days: the first two were spent on a bewildering variety of crazy creativity activities.  These included blowing huge soap bubbles, a giant pacman, wacky physics experiments, lateral thinking puzzles, improv [...]

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Ask – ‘What Business are we in?’

The CEO of Black and Decker once said, ‘People don’t go into a DIY store because they need one of our drills. They go because they need a hole in the wall.’ Wonderbra in their internal communications to staff say this, ‘We do not sell underwear. We do not sell lingerie. What we sell [...]

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