Innovation News & Articles

What’s the key to adopting the kind of marketing innovation that is necessary in today’s environment? According to a new report from Forrester Research, it boils down to one thing: a culture of innovation.

It is all clear now. I figured it out. My absolute favorite thing about SXSW is this: The pretentious people say it has jumped the shark. Do you know all those people who are so busy telling everyone “There’s nothing new at SXSW”? Yeah, they’re gone. The people who remain are the ones who are taking risks. The ones who are creating new and interesting stuff. And because the naysayers have taken their negative attitudes home, the makers are free to do even more cool stuff.

"Innovation occurs at the intersection of fear, opportunity and talent.” -- Bruce Cleveland, Venture Capitalist at InterWest Ventures.

"Imitation as Innovation: Lessons from the Shanzhai" was the most intellectually challenging topic from my first day at SXSW. This talk from Lyn Jeffery, Research Director at Institute for the Future and Kris Gale, VP of Engineering at Yammer had so many paradoxes fly about the room, it took a good minute after the presentation was completed before the audience could absorb the messages deeply enough to ask any questions.

I was recently talking to a colleague who has been tagged to lead innovation for his employer. I was taken slightly aback when he mentioned that some big name strategy consultants told him that creating a culture of innovation was intractable and that he was better off creating a team that popped innovative stuff out.

Innovation is dead. Lucky for us, it can be reborn. Or so says Christine Crandell. She’s a B2B strategy, marketing and transformation expert who helps CEOs, CMOs, CROs, COOs and investors accelerate revenue growth. She does it by focusing on the customer experience.

What are the most innovative companies? Fast Company magazine has come out with its annual take on the top 50.

All too often business leaders feel the need to work around, rather than work with, IT to gain access to new tools that facilitate enterprise collaboration and the free flow of information and ideas. It doesn't have to be this way.

The Economist Intelligence Unit has a new report out that says don't be afraid to fail -- great innovation can come of it.

It seems that alongside the exponential growth of technology there is an equal growth in creativity.  This is not necessarily among the creators of new apps and programs; there's a pretty obvious gold rush to capitalize on any successful phenomenon by creating the newer, better version of it.  Many technologies debuting here at DEMO Conference's Fall Edition strike a similarity to existing mediums, then offer a variation or addition, each with the hopes of being the next company to sell to Facebook for $1 billion. 

There’s been a lot of talk about the newest member of the C-Suite: the Chief Innovation Officer, who is tasked with driving enterprise growth through innovation. If you think that sounds vague, it’s time you learned what the (new) CIO does to make your job better.

When we came to ILTA it was telling that the focus of the conference was no longer exclusively about e-Discovery. Legal tech has evolved to include so much more than collecting and reviewing information. Over time, the legal tech community has had to confront issues associated with the cloud, mobile and social media.

Tom Koulopoulos started off Tuesday’s ILTA keynote telling us we’ve been brainwashed. We’ve let technology change the way we behave and thwart us off the course for which we’ve been originally wired. We check our email from our bed. We take photos of our food. We need to be constantly connected.

Today starts our week-long coverage of ILTA 12. Though the International Legal Technology Association brings together a variety of legal professionals, the focus of this year’s conference relates to most, if not all of us in the enterprise -- Act, Collaborate to Drive Change (AC2DC).

Last week we discussed the ways government agencies can improve usability of the Federal Web. This week in our series, we take a look at how social collaboration has become an integral component within the federal government. The results may surprise you.