Lately a number of business leaders have begun to embrace the arts as an integral part of the human enterprise that ought to be woven into the fabric of every business. Read more
Here are eight inspiring examples of how to “innovate innovation,” based on stories contributed to the MIX. Learn from the pioneering organizations that have successfully embedded innovation into their management DNA. Read more
When we are dreaming, we should let ourselves and our employees free to dream big dreams. Our dreams are powerful because of their boundlessness - they embody our creative spirits and best talents.... Read more
In today’s dynamic business world, innovation can no longer remain an ivory tower initiative. Innovation needs to occur in real-time and in the “value zone,” driven by ... Read more
Think of something you are doing well.
Think of a way to do it better.
Now think of how to get better at getting better.
If you can, you really accelerate innovation.
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Sustainability is a powerful way to generate innovation at Danone, producing creativity through presenting new problems to solve, establishing big goals that force people to think differently and... Read more
Academic conferences disseminate research; they don’t engender innovation. At the Annenberg Innovation Lab, that’s not our style. We invite media executives, academic leaders, and students to explore... Read more
Hack weeks are a popular technique to help stimulate grassroots innovation. One Microsoft team explored the impact of three additional factors: diversity, remote work, and timeouts - on hack week... Read more
What if entrepreneurs could invest in each other? How much time and money is wasted in the red tape of "selecting" innovations--and how many truly disruptive ideas fail to make it through... Read more
An unusual leadership development program that promises to “make a difference”, transforming young people into powerful grass-roots leaders urgently needed to transform our organizations – and change... Read more
This hack is an effort to provide a framework through which organisations can work through to embed innovation as part of their DNA. The framework is based on four broad steps organisations need to... Read more
With traditional policing practices challenged by a rising rate of criminal activity and tight budgets, the Memphis Police Department pioneered a way to focus our patrol resources more intelligently... Read more
Klick developed the revolutionary management tool – Genome. A custom-built intranet with a full suite of tools aimed at managing time, budgets and people; replacing e-mail, timesheets, spreadsheets,... Read more
Bringing concepts to market demands innovation from end-to-end. Synapse folds clients right into the creative process by fostering engineer-client brainstorming sessions and collaborative cross-... Read more
Since 2003, Business Innovation Prototyping contests the dominant mantra of ‘project management’ in R&D. We do this according mainly to the following principles of: bringing risk into the... Read more
an electronic knowledge exchange database that stores, organizes and publishes information inside and outside the organization, a lab “peace room” where employees could chat and work with paperboards... Read more
GameChanger is a simple, flexible, and real-time innovation process run by an autonomous team at Shell that invests in helping people develop their novel ideas from genesis to proof of concept.... Read more
Some Innovation Programs are launched with the idea that they will change the business model of an organization. In our case we wanted to enhance our business model by continually adapting... Read more
We're always asking "how much" when we should really be asking "how," says MIX Maverick and Author of "How: Why HOW We Do Anything Means Everything," Dov Seidman. Too many leaders focus on keeping score and scaling when they really ought to be pursuing significance. The result: a world filled with organizations that are "too big to fail" when we need more that are too good to fail.