Employee Networks for Unstoppable Growth

by Margaret Manson

There is an epidemic. Company after company, industry after industry arecatching potentially life threatening diseases. Commodity price wars, shortage of talent, loss of relevance, low productivity and staff engagement, overwhelm of daily activities, short term focus,...

Congratulations On Your Engagement!

by Margaret Manson

Are you sure you and your employees are really engaged? Just because you’ve hired them doesn’t mean they consider themselves engaged. The relationship to them could be just one of passively sharing daily experience, like taking the same train to work. Everyone plays...

Rapid Prototyping at Deloitte: Building An Ideas Factory

by Margaret Manson

We live in the Knowledge Economy where knowledge is the hard currency. And, like with any other hard currency, quantity is only upstaged by how you use it. One single insight into customers’ needs makes all the difference. This insight comes not from endless...

Top 50 Reasons Innovation will Fail

by Margaret Manson

I was eavesdropping on a conversation on one of my LinkedIn groups on the subject. All too often companies invest considerable time, cost and effort in ‘innovation’ without return. The CEO gets inspired by the idea of innovation, persuaded by an article,...

What is Innovation?

by Margaret Manson

You know that feeling when you have opened a can of worms? I just did that. I sent out email to Friends of InnoFuture today to share the exciting news about InnoFuture DOJO and did three things that didn’t go down well: included images of Obama, Jobs and...

Whirlpool: How to Build Innovation Culture

by Margaret Manson

Whirlpool Corporation has become a modern textbook case of a massive corporate transformation, through Innovation that swept the entire 70,000+ workforce . Whirlpool’s heroic journey has been documented in the 2008 book “Unleashing Innovation at Whirlpool” by...