I love Lean. In my eyes, the work Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and others have done to provide a cogent, accessible frame around the academic concepts of emergent strategy is one of the most important contributions to the innovation movement over the past few years. I have repeatedly stated that the next wave of innovation […]… Read More


At the heart of the healthcare debate in the US is a profound quandary: how can we as a country spend more per capita but not have at least the same level of health as comparable nations spending 5%, 10%, 20% less? Emerging research indicates that how physicians treat patients, the “care model,” is a […]… Read More


The math is clear. Healthy employees cost less. Employers have a strong economic incentive to lower their healthcare costs by motivating their employees to improve their health and develop healthy habits. Unhealthy workers cost employers an average of $11,176 per active employee per year. A survey done by Aon Hewitt with 800 large and midsize […]… Read More


The US leads the world in advancing medical innovation through ground-breaking research that leads to new medical tests, technologies, treatments and devices. Each new advance has the potential to change or save lives – often in ways that are absolutely priceless to patients and their families. Yet, unfortunately, new medical innovations aren’t without their costs […]… Read More


Who is the world’s most innovative company? The editors of Fast Company say Nike. Last year, number crunchers at Forbes found that Salesforce.com is the company with the highest “Innovation Premium” baked into its stock price. MIT Technology Review didn’t pick a winner, but on its recent list of top 50 “disruptors,” the magazine mixed […]… Read More


Close to 200 people joined our Webinar last week discussing how companies can use the concepts described in Building a Growth Factory to improve their innovation success rate. We couldn’t answer all of the audience’s questions due to time constraints, so we thought we would use Innosight’s blog to address six themes that appeared most […]… Read More


The other day I watched my first episode of Mad Men. I’m a little late to the game, I know, but that’s what having Netflix, Hulu Plus, and Comcast on Demand are for. The irony of using anytime, commercial-free media to watch advertisers work in a world with only three television channels got me thinking about […]… Read More


Innovation experts Scott Anthony and David Duncan share insights on how to take a structured approach to innovation that pays off big. In this on-demand webcast, Anthony and Duncan, co-authors of the Harvard Business Press book, “Building a Growth Factory,” will discuss: how to create a growth blueprint that guides your innovation efforts; leadership being the key ingredient that can unleash or stifle innovation; practical advice on how to put this system into action at your own company; and how companies like Procter & Gamble and Citi stayed firmly on a path toward growth despite huge challenges.… Read More


The Fog of Innovation — that moment when you realize that the data you need to make a critical decision about an innovative idea just aren’t clear. Unfortunately, the data rarely are. For most large companies that find themselves lost in the fog, the default answer is to keep studying. After all, a risk that […]… Read More