In this The Street video, Scott Anthony offers tips on innovation and names America’s most innovative companies.… Read More
Innosight was treated to a glimpse of a potential future for one of the world’s biggest industries at a recent Friday Forum lunch with Jamie Heywood, co-founder of PatientsLikeMe.com, the breakthrough social networking and data-sharing site for people with chronic diseases.… Read More
2012 has not gotten off to a great start for Eastman Kodak. Three of the company’s directors quit near the end of last year, and word recently emerged that the company was on the brink of filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The easy narrative is that Kodak is a classic case of a company […]… Read More
My last post described how Innosight follows a three-stage process to evaluate investment proposals from outside entrepreneurs. But deciding how to invest in ideas at a corporation is a different beast. In The Innovator’s Guide to Growth we suggested that companies should create one-page “Idea Resumes” that capture the essence of an idea on a […]… Read More
Scott D. Anthony discusses insights from The Little Black Book of Innovation and how companies can avoid the “innovator’s paradox” and start innovating before it’s too late.… Read More
“Make sure you ask the right questions at the right time.” That’s one memorable piece of advice from a leader at a global innovation powerhouse. Unfortunately, it is a piece of advice that is heeded too infrequently inside large companies. At many companies, the idea evaluation process revolves around detailed Excel spreadsheets, comprehensive PowerPoint documents, […]… Read More
Systematically exploring alternative approaches to value creation can allow companies to find new opportunities for growth.… Read More
I recently participated in a panel discussion hosted by the Economist Corporate Network in Singapore about innovation in Asia. I started my portion of the discussion by sharing three observations about what I had found unique about innovating in Asia: its unbelievable diversity, both between and within countries (and sometimes even cities); the historical focus […]… Read More
“We were too busy being strategic to do something obvious,” said Mr. Harish Bhat, the COO of the Time Products division of Titan Industries Limited. That was just one of many choice lines I heard when listening to Bhat talk about Titan’s efforts to create new growth businesses, including two new and successful watch lines: […]… Read More
To mark the passing of one of the world’s all-time great innovators, some of the leaders of Innosight are reflecting on what Steve Jobs taught the world. He leaves as his legacy a set of lessons about innovation that will continue to inspire us for generations to come. These are just eight of the main takeaways […]… Read More