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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Think Like a Venture Capitalist

The most innovative companies have an approach to trials that is like the philosophy of a venture capitalist.  The VC is a prime example of an arsonist and fire fighter.  He will invest in a portfolio of different start-up companies, fully knowing that most will fail.  A few might break even and one or two [...]

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