Innovate in Your Life

Five Ways to Create Innovation Throughout Your Life

When innovation is brought up in a business context, we mostly think about, well, the business. We think of innovations related to products, business models, go-to-market strategies and the like. Innovation can make positive changes in other areas of life as well.

From Blogging Innovation

Senate Reauthorizes Business Innovation Programs

Amid tumbling banks and bankrupt companies, small businesses may have cause for celebration. The Senate reauthorized the Small Business Administration's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs last Wednesday. In the House, Congressman David Wu (D-OR) shepherded the bill through, with a resounding 386-41 vote.

From Inc.

More on U.S. Government Business Innovation Programs

Innovation Capital

Rowan Gibson explains how intellectual capital has become an outdated way to measure an organization's worth. What's needed are new measures used to create value today, such as imagination capital, entrepreneurial capital and relationship capital.
From Innovation Tools.

My Private Brand web site

Follow the latest news on private brands at the My Private Brand web site, or join the LinkedIn group by the same name.

Art of Innovation in 10 Steps

Entrepreneur, Twitter star, and former Apple software evangelist Guy Kawasaki highlights advice for creating meaning, innovation, and...revenue.

Inside Disney's Toy Factory

Members of the Disney Toy team use systematic brainstorming and prototyping for the innovation to overhaul the lineup every six months. It sounds old school, but Disney toys gets 50 percent of their new products from this process.
From BusinessWeek

To re-invent your company, reinvent yourself

Continuous innovation requires that leaders manage two different "gut instincts" at the same time, one more operational and one more entrepreneurial. Encourage executives to build their innovation skills using these tips.

From Innovation Tools