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Bringing the Human Perspective to Innovation

Whether you are an established research and development innovation professional, or just starting out in the field, there are some best practices that...
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Championing Innovation Management

Artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies are changing the game when it comes to innovation management. The demands of the marketplace a...
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Creating Innovation Differentiation

In an intense and fast-paced business world, standing out from the crowd is crucial for brand growth and success. Understanding your market and compet...
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The Innovation Edge: Best Practices Defined

Corporate innovation is no longer a luxury, but a necessity for survival and growth in today's rapidly changing business landscape. This guide, create...
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Refining the Rapid Prototyping Framework

Staying on top of the innovation game requires speed to market in today’s competitive environment. Bringing new products to the development phase ca...
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FEI25 Honors to Recognize Six Innovation Luminaries

This year’s Front End of Innovation (FEI25) conference will celebrate the show’s rich history of innovation with the FEI Honors event. FEI Honors...
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Harnessing Innovation Strategies for the Future

As we conclude our series on innovation strategy, we asked thought leaders in the community to look towards the future. We’ve covered such topics as...
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Beyond the Resume: Crafting a Winning Quality of Hire Strategy

You've just onboarded a candidate who seemed perfect on paper. Her credentials sparkled, recommendations glowed, and her interview performance had you...
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Putting Together the Right Recipe for Innovation Strategy

A well-formulated innovation strategy is composed of many established stages and frameworks, yet one imperative that’s often overlooked is the need...
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Taking the Transformation Journey

Nothing really stays still for businesses and brands, at least for very long, in today’s dynamic environment. It’s a constant evolution. That mome...
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FEI25 Honors Event to Celebrate Innovation Luminaries

This year’s FEI25 conference will celebrate the show’s rich history of innovation with the FEI Honors event during the show. The event will recogn...
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Connecting the Company to Innovation Strategy

Forming a well-defined innovation strategy is essential for organizations that want to thrive in today's dynamic and competitive environment. At this...
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Guiding Innovation Strategy

Innovation strategy is the compass and roadmap for an organization's innovation efforts. It defines what to innovate, why, and how to achieve it. It's...
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Creating the New Business Innovation Mindset

From quantum computing to the metaverse, there are a multitude of emerging trends, tools and technologies that could influence the business of innovat...
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Moving Up the Innovation Curve

All Things Innovation’s continuing series on business innovation has focused on the foundational knowledge and best practices of this discipline. Wh...
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FEI25 to Hold Collective Intelligence Startup Competition

FEI is planning to hold its 2nd Annual FEI Seed Stage Startup Competition. This edition will feature the theme, Collective Intelligence. The Collectiv...
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Bringing the Rogue Mindset to FEI25

Just how much of a Rogue Mindset do you and your team bring to the innovation table? What can we do to bring more of that unconventional thinking to t...
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Moving the Needle on Business Innovation

In defining business innovation, thought leaders in the community often liken it to an umbrella of sorts, where the business is open to new ideas bein...
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Defining Business Innovation

Business innovation refers to the process of introducing new ideas, products, services, or processes into a business to create value and gain a compet...
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Strengthening Product Concept Testing

Many product launches often fail, and it’s accepted as part of the nature of innovation. But does it really need to be that way? Cambri asserts that...
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Pushing Beauty Innovation Boundaries with Benchmarking

In a beauty market saturated with products competing closely on price, packaging, and performance attributes, distinguishing through competitive insig...
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Speeding Product Innovation Through Social Prediction

The new product development process is fraught with subjective opinions, evidence gaps, small sample sizes, and an increasingly complex and fast-chang...
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Integrating AI-Enabled Insights to Guide Innovation

At TMRE 2024, ZS and The Hershey Company presented a fireside chat on “Reinventing Innovation with Generative AI-Enabled Insights.” As insights an...
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Shift Retail Lab Brings Together Insights & Innovation

Cross-disciplinary collaboration, innovation and entrepreneurship are at the heart of the Shift Retail Lab, a student innovation lab and storefront. J...
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Leveraging Insights to Reach Innovation

With the production of insights comes learning about your marketplace and consumer, actionable findings, and agile decision-making—all of which can...
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Inspiring The Future of Innovation

TMRE 2024, recently held in Orlando, gathered the market research community for a broad range of conversations and discussions from all manner of insi...
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Leading Innovation Through Change

A resilient insights community came together at Universal’s Loews Sapphire Falls Resort in Orlando, FL, this past December for TMRE 2024. The market...
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Top Innovation Themes from 2024

As we close out our review of 2024, we wanted to examine the top innovation themes of the year, based on our blogs, research reports and events. To do...
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Building on Innovation Best Practices: A Review of Q4 2024

During the fourth quarter of 2024, All Things Innovation was busy wrapping up additional coverage of the FEI 2024 conference and presenting a broad ra...
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Cooking Up Innovation: A Review of Q3 2024

During the third quarter of 2024, All Things Innovation was busy preparing coverage for the recently concluded FEI 2024 conference in June and present...

Sparking Innovation: A Review of Q2 2024

During the second quarter of 2024, All Things Innovation was busy preparing for the upcoming FEI 2024 conference in June and presenting a broad range...
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Illuminating Innovation: A Review of Q1 2024

During the first quarter of 2024, All Things Innovation was busy preparing for the upcoming FEI 2024 conference and gearing up for a year filled with...
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Innovation Community Resources on Future Trends

As we take a look back and review the educational track sessions at FEI 2024, All Things Innovation brings you a special edition featuring additional...
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Innovation Community Resources on Product Development

As we continue to look back and review the educational sessions at FEI 2024, All Things Innovation brings you a special edition featuring additional r...
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Innovation Community Resources on Analytics

As we continue to look back and explore the educational sessions at FEI 2024, All Things Innovation brings you an extra edition featuring additional r...
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Innovation Community Resources on People & Culture

All Things Innovation brings you a bonus edition featuring additional research, insights and resources centered on FEI 2024’s People & Culture track...
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Innovation Community Resources on Process

All Things Innovation brings you a bonus edition featuring additional research, insights and resources centered on FEI 2024’s Process track. The tra...
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Charting the Course: Enhancing Executive Dashboards with Control Charts

You're an executive, sitting in your corner office, sipping your morning coffee (or perhaps something stronger, no judgment here). Suddenly, you're am...
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The Future of AI: A Roundtable Perspective

A key session at FEI 2024 earlier in the year was the GenAI Use Case Roundtables, where the entire show delegation shared opportunities and concerns w...
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Accelerating Innovation: Overcoming Organizational Hurdles

A key session during FEI 2024 earlier this year was the Interdisciplinary Innovation Roundtables, in which the entire FEI 2024 delegation of innovatio...

Shaping The Future

FEI 2024's Customer 2024 & Future Trends Track provided valuable insights into the future of industries, innovation, and work, addressing the pressing...
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From Silos to Synergy: The Power of Democratized Innovation

The innovation community is emphasizing an increase in collaborative practices, and with that a corresponding decrease in the silo mentality. This ope...

A Glimpse into the Future of Innovation

The FEI 2024’s R&D, Product Development & Design track showcased a diverse range of innovative ideas and strategies across various industries. Corpo...

The Data-Driven Race: Strategies for Success

FEI 2024's AI, Data, Analytics & Insights track provided valuable insights into the latest trends and technologies shaping the future of business. By...

Empowering Innovation Through People and Culture

FEI 2024's People & Culture track explored the multifaceted nature of innovation and the importance of effective communication, collaboration, and a w...

The Innovation Process: Culture, Data, and Partnership

FEI 2024’s Process track delves into the multifaceted landscape of innovation, exploring strategies for fostering a culture of innovation, leveragin...

Driving Strategy and Transformation Through Innovation

FEI 2024’s Strategy & Transformation track collectively highlights the imperative of aligning strategy for transformation in today's rapidly evolvin...
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The First Steps to Transformational Innovation

All Things Innovation’s annual roundtable discussion, held at the Front End of Innovation (FEI 2024) conference, tackled the big question: “Is tra...
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The Blockbuster Blunder: A Cautionary Tale of Strategy Gone Wrong

In 2010, Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy with nearly $1 billion in debt. Just a decade earlier, they had confidently declined an offer to purchase Ne...
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Measuring the Human Element

The Front End of Innovation (FEI 2024) conference featured All Things Innovation’s annual roundtable discussion, which tackled the big question: “...
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Capturing Innovation Engagement

All Things Innovation had a chance to chat with Termeh Rassi, Chief Strategy Officer & Editorial Director at Leonardo, at this year’s FEI 2024 confe...
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Unlocking the Potential of Data Innovation

With FEI 2024’s focus on AI, human capabilities, and the data-innovation journey, among other topics, All Things Innovation had a chance to discuss...
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Attaining Zero to N Innovation

A highlight at this year’s Front End of Innovation (FEI 2024) was All Things Innovation’s annual roundtable discussion, which tackled the big ques...
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Gen Z on Corporate Innovation

Meet the generation disrupting the way we innovate: Generation Z. As Gen Z enters the workforce and embraces entrepreneurship, there's a growing need...
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Setting the Stage for Startups

With Mike Vladimer, Lead Product Manager for Innovation at a Fortune 250 company, on hand at FEI 2024, All Things Innovation got the chance to chat wi...
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Applying Prompt Engineering: Inspiration to Innovation

As human intelligence and AI technology converge in the innovation community, it’s becoming more important to learn the skills of prompt engineering...
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Creating a Venture Capital Mindset

Established corporate enterprises tend to struggle at times when they focus on innovation initiatives. Often, organizations are leery of throwing reso...
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Is Transformational Innovation Possible?

One of the most interesting activities at this year’s Front End of Innovation (FEI 2024) was All Things Innovation’s annual roundtable discussion,...
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The Symbiotic Relationship Between Corporations & Startups

All Things Innovation spoke with Carley Hart, Director of Corporate Partnerships, Runway Startups at Cornell Tech, at the recent FEI 2024 conference....
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The Art of Asking: A Data Scientist’s Guide to Stakeholder Interactions

Ever feel like a human dashboard? Welcome to the life of a data scientist, where stakeholders often mistake us for walking analytics platforms with an...
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Energizing Sustainable Solutions

All Things Innovation spent some time at FEI 2024 with Serene Hamsho, President of American Offshore Wind Academy, which provides professional trainin...
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Plugging into AI & ML Adoption

In the rapidly evolving landscape of consumer-packaged goods (CPG), the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is no lo...
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Finding the Value of Innovation

Gail Martino, VP Partnerships, 387Labs, was on hand at FEI 2024 as a moderator for the Brunch with the Bots presentation on the final day of the confe...
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Building Connections Between Insights & Innovation

Insights and innovation are closely connected in the corporate enterprise, and the rise of artificial intelligence has only increased the reliance on...
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Unleashing Innovation

All Things Innovation was on hand at the recent FEI 2024 conference to discuss innovation with corporate changemakers. We caught up with Liza Sanchez,...
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Supporting Agile Innovation

Often, when we think about large corporations, rapid innovation and agile development may not be the first principles that come to mind. Large corpora...
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Adopting an Innovation Ecosystem

From small startups to large corporations, sometimes the process of innovation includes the need for an innovation ecosystem. Just how that is defined...
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Building the Right Data & Insights Team

You've heard it before: Data is the new oil. Just as crude oil needs refining to become valuable, data must be processed to unlock its potential. Ente...
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Data-Driven: A Winning Formula for Innovation

Maximiliano Just, Vice President, Data Governance and Shared Platforms at a Fortune 100 company, was a speaker at the recent FEI 2024 conference. As i...
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Creating a Culture of Experimentation

Many in the community feel that fostering a culture of innovation is paramount. A key to this is building a culture of experimentation. This stems fro...
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Is Your Company Innovation Ready?

The term innovation readiness is often used to refer to an organization's ability to develop and launch new products, services or ideas. Some may poin...
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Innovation in Action: Trends from FEI 2024

This past June, the vibrant city of Boston, known for its trailblazing spirit, became the epicenter of innovation as it hosted the Front End of Innova...
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The Path to a Sustainable Future

All Things Innovation recently caught up with Keith Crossland, CEO and Co-Founder of Carbon Negative Solutions. Crossland’s company was the grand pr...
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The Journey to Commercialization

After all the research, ideation, strategy, planning, prototyping and other stages of the innovation journey, there comes a time when commercializatio...
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FEI 2024 Report: The Future of Innovation

A successful three-day event marked Front End of Innovation (FEI) 2024 in Boston, held June 10 to 12 at the Omni Hotel at the Seaport. A reenergized a...
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Harnessing the Power of Consumer Insights

Innovation doesn’t happen in a silo, and a great product or idea can only go so far on its own. Tapping into the pulse of your consumer is key to ta...
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Leaning into Crisis Innovation

In times of crisis, conventional wisdom seems to indicate that companies tighten the reins on personnel and their budgets, and that innovation efforts...
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Selecting an Innovation Framework

The science of innovation, especially as seen through frameworks, is an important aspect of the operational process. With innovation a sometimes spraw...
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Creating the Right Innovation Team

Innovation was often seen as the task of a lone inventor, but that mindset has changed over the years. Rather than the solitary genius approach to inn...
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Avoiding Innovation Traps

The road to innovation can sometimes be straight and unencumbered. But more than likely, it can also be a long and winding route, with many obstacles...
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Social Media Influences Innovation Opportunities

Social media has its own unique way of influencing purchase behavior and putting products and services in the right organizational and corporate conte...
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Bridging Generational Divides in Innovation

Some may call it the generational gap, whether it be in the workplace or the marketplace, but that gap also signals opportunity. The sheer diversity o...

Taking An Interdisciplinary Approach to Innovation

Escaping from the silo mentality at corporate enterprises is becoming more important in innovation and to influence projects moving forward. Cross-col...
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Cultivating a Collective Intelligence Mindset

In today’s modern age of innovation, cooperation and collaboration are key approaches to take in solving complex problems. Cross-collaboration and i...
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Moving Past Innovation Roadblocks

With the pace of change accelerating, fostering innovation in corporate enterprises can be a challenging task—a task that is very much dependent on...
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A Call for Sustainable Development

An MIT environmental engineering undergraduate from Jamaica, Runako Gentles uses his personal story to advocate for sustainable development to be inte...
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Innovation’s Role in the Race to Net Zero

As consumers, we are all living with climate change as a growing reality—and that reality is impacting our lives on a daily basis. We have heard of...
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Mapping Out the Data-Innovation Journey

This year, in our latest Innovation Perspectives Report, the editors of All Things Innovation brought together a cross-section of innovation, insights...
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The Partnership Playbook: Opening Internal & External Innovation

Developing innovation can be a challenging task on many fronts for corporate enterprises. Innovation might not be embedded into the culture or leaders...
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Managing Productive Innovation

Conservatively, I estimate that I've attended 20,000-plus meetings throughout my career. I'll admit, many of them should have been replaced with email...
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Taking Flight with Data-Driven Drone Development

While artificial intelligence has made headlines, there is another innovation, or evolution, happening in technology: Drones. There is a revolution ha...
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Accelerating a Data-Driven Approach

If we accept that data lies at the heart of marketing and business decision-making, a data-driven approach must be paramount in today’s environment....
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Innovation Principles, 7/7

Once adequate competency, support, and size of a new team are secured, clear direction based on a purposeful vision, alignment with a winning game pla...
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The Road to FEI24: Implementing An AI-Driven Innovation Discovery Process

FEI 2024 will host the session, “Implementing An AI-Driven Innovation Discovery Process,” presented by Miranda Helmer, VP, Innovation Discovery, T...
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The Road to FEI24: Business Transformation in a World of Technological Blast

Christian Saclier, VP Design Innovation, PepsiCo, is participating in FEI 2024 with the presentation, “Business Transformation in a World of Technol...
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Leveraging AI in B2B Respondent Insights

In the B2B marketing landscape, artificial intelligence has shown great potential. It is becoming an essential and advantageous tool, a tool which no...
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The Road to FEI24: Test & Learn for Data-Driven Decision-Making

With the growth of artificial intelligence, and a rising emphasis on insights and data science, innovation is increasingly becoming a more data-driven...
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The Road to FEI24: Analytics for Innovation

Anu Sundaram, Vice President, Business Analytics, Rue Gilt Groupe, is planning an interactive analytics session for FEI 2024, taking place this June....
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The Road to FEI24: Guidance From Virtual Natives & Interconnected Realities

With FEI fast approaching, Leslie Shannon, Head of Trend and Innovation Scouting, Nokia, sat down with All Things Innovation’s Seth Adler to discuss...
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The Road to FEI24: GenAI: Lessons Learned From Early Adopters

As FEI 2024 approaches, Seth Adler of All Things Innovation joined Bradley Shimmin, Chief Analyst, AI Platforms, Analytics and Data Management, Omdia,...
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Fractional Work: The Growth of Flexibility and Innovation

In the past year, I've observed a surge in the usage of a particular term across platforms like LinkedIn - "Fractional." It's become increasingly prev...
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The Road to FEI24: Corporate Innovation: Internal & External Best Practice

Innovation partnerships between corporations and startups can be fraught with challenges, yet the promise of a successful and sustainable business all...
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The Road to FEI24: Brunch with the Bots

Samantha Johnson, Founder & CEO at Tatum Robotics, will take part in FEI 2024 in several ways, including participating in the keynote sessions, “Bru...
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The Road to FEI24: Self-Disruption: Balancing Short-Term Gain With Long-Term Meaningful Value

With FEI 2024 coming up in June, All Things Innovation’s Seth Adler had the opportunity to discuss self-disruptive innovation concepts with Mark Sla...
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The Road to FEI24: Innovation Means Increasing Throughput Not Reducing FTE

As we prepare for FEI 2024, All Things Innovation’s Seth Adler had a chance to sit down with Donald High, Chief Data Scientist, Internal Revenue Ser...
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Your Blurry Business Picture: Sharpen Focus with Data Science

Pictures are the lingua franca of our age, transcending barriers... they say a picture's worth a thousand words, and in this digital epoch, we all bec...
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Transform New Product Development with AI

While AI is certainly touted as being able to create rapid data-driven insights, there are advantages in the new product development process that can...
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Discovering the Innovation-Led Growth Journey

Advances in artificial intelligence are powering AI-driven innovation. As machines become smarter and tech developments are rapidly progressing, there...
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Innovation Principles, 6/7

Development strategy (i.e., Game Plan) is a set of choices within applicable constraints and trade-offs that defines our development approach and posi...
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Capturing Value with Business Model Innovation

While product and service innovation are integral in today’s competitive business environment, one shouldn’t overlook creating value through busin...
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Applying AI to Anthropological Research

Agile research and methodologies are of primary importance to the innovation discipline, as they promote a more versatile, rapid, adaptive approach to...
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8 Risks If You Don’t Have an AI Strategy

In the fast-paced world of Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), where product life cycles are short and consumer trends shift with lightning speed, stay...
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Positioning the Role of Prompt Engineering

Prompt engineering is one of the latest buzzwords when it comes to artificial intelligence, but what is this evolving and complex job function? Some m...

Powering AI-Driven Innovation

The advancements in artificial intelligence have rapidly impacted and transformed the business world around us. For insights and innovation, it has in...

Empowering Innovation Through the Democratization of AI

Artificial intelligence is influencing and impacting a diverse range of industries. As AI platforms and services grow across the ecosystem, there are...

Finding Best Practices for Data Management

Data management is critical in today’s innovation and overall business environment. This ensures that data is collected, cleansed, analyzed and stor...

Increase Consumer Engagement Through Content Interactivity

The digital transformation taking place around us both for corporations and consumers is also impacting trends in interactive content. This ranges fro...

The Benefits of Innovative Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship and innovation are closely linked concepts but also distinct and separate stages in business. Defining both is helpful from both an o...

Providing a Data-Driven Foundation to Innovation

Analytics continues to be an important element in innovation. Taking an analytical approach helps companies continually learn about their processes, m...

Transforming the Business Through Design Thinking

Disruption is here. The evolution of change is here. Digitization is here and impacting the way we live and work and affecting industries from hospita...

Innovation Principles, 5/7

Gross Profit Margin and Net Present Value are two primary profitability indicators for evaluating an intended entrepreneurial offering. Even if suffic...

Growing the Next Generation of Innovation Talent

With technological developments evolving, and the notable growth of artificial intelligence, it becomes increasingly important to cultivate the next g...

Navigating the Nascent Stage of Innovation

There might be more inherent uncertainty in a nascent industry or early startup venture, with many questions and challenges unanswered, bringing compl...

The Power of NLP in Enhancing Customer Experience

Picture yourself in a Hilton hotel, greeted not just by the warm smiles of the staff but also by "Connie" – a sophisticated virtual assistant powere...

Exploring the Growth Dynamics of Self-Disruption

Within innovation, there is often a balancing act between short-term goals and long-term planning. This is faced by innovators as they work through en...

Finding the Way to Business Transformation

The concept of business transformation can be defined with a broad range of meanings depending upon the business and the different stakeholders that p...

Gaining an Innovation Edge with Automation

With the focus on how artificial intelligence, as well as digital transformation efforts, can help streamline operations, it’s worth another look at...

Creating the Right Innovation Partnership

Corporations often face many challenges when it comes to developing innovation in a fast, evolving market. They can face barriers such as inertia, the...

Bringing Sales and Innovation Together

Just how can innovation and sales work together to find success? Too often, companies find themselves stuck in their respective departments and the si...

Advancing Universal Interaction

Artificial intelligence, specifically generative AI, has the potential to be a great equalizing disruptive technology of our time. While we are still...

Innovation Principles, 4/7

The front end of innovation is a distinctly iterative endeavor based on human-centered, design-thinking principles. It could be represented by a spira...

Finding the Voice of Humanity-Centric Innovation

With technology growing and constantly evolving in our personal and professional lives, and becoming more pervasive, the innovation community has cont...

How AI is Redefining Business Strategy

Over the last year, AI went from being the next big thing to being the Big Thing. In particular, Large Language Models (LLMs) from companies like Open...

Winning the Innovation Strategy Game

We know that having a creative mindset can fuel innovation, and that fostering a culture of innovation is also important to get the job done. Yet ther...

Defining How Innovation Culture Creates an Impact

For innovation to make an impact, one of the keys to fueling long-term success is to foster an innovative culture within both your team and your enter...

Taking Next Steps with Innovation Talent

As we head into the new year, taking the next steps with innovation talent remains an important question to explore. With the competitive landscape in...

Strengthening Innovation in a Dynamic Environment

Organizations today often face a conundrum in the current economic environment. On the one hand, there is a directive to cut costs and optimize operat...

PIE: Get Your Slice of Success

How can someone really stand out and succeed as a corporate innovator, get the most exciting projects, or secure a promotion? This is a question I enc...

Shaping the Future with Disruptive Technology

As we head into 2024, innovation of all types, most especially in technology, will continue to disrupt, transform and impact our lives, from the workp...

Keeping Your Innovation Career Resilient

With the rise of technology, such as AI, impacting workers and workplaces, it’s safe to say the future of work is evolving—in innovation and in ma...

Innovation Principles, 3/7

The main premise behind an integrated end-to-end continuum of innovation and new product development is that a holistic understanding of sequential de...

Inviting Interdisciplinary Innovation Collaboration

Like many scientific, research and business fields, innovation often calls for more interdisciplinary collaboration and cooperation. This can help bre...

Embracing Open Innovation

Open innovation is a growing tactic for today’s globalized enterprises. Rather than focusing just on closed loop systems and internal sources, such...

Behind the Ad Screen: Machine Learning as Your Campaign Conductor

Do you have a solid understanding of “machine learning,” aka ML, and how ML optimizes advertising campaigns? You don’t need to know as much as y...

Operationalizing Ideation Through Idea Management

Ideation, the creative and systematic generation of ideas, is an important step in the innovation process. This is a method for collecting ideas and r...

Bringing Collective Intelligence to the Innovation Process

Sometimes a problem is so complex that one person can’t solve it on their own. This calls for a more modern solution of cooperation and collaboratio...

The ‘Bird Test’: Building Relationships for Innovation

Have you ever been so excited about an innovative idea that you couldn’t wait to share it with a colleague or manager? What happened–did they matc...

Balancing the Innovation Partnership

Startup and corporate partnerships are a delicate balancing act but one that can maximize innovation success for both partners. Certainly, there are c...

Growing the Green Economy through Sustainable Innovation

As we get closer to wrapping up 2023 and moving forward into the new year, it’s time to put a focus on the improvements we can make with sustainabil...

Shaping the Next Generation of Innovation

Generation Z is in a unique position as they are often viewed as one of the first to be shaped and influenced by technology such as the Internet, soci...

How AI Chatbot Technology Can Support Innovation

New technology has the capacity to make a mighty impact on society, in both large and small ways, before that very same technology becomes more common...

Innovation Principles, 2/7

Successful innovation endeavors are built on creative tension between key enabling entrepreneurial trade-offs associated with four must-have constitue...

The Impact of AI on Innovation

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is having a profound impact and influence on a broad range of industries. From healthcare to publishing to industrial fie...

Delivering the Right Data to the Right Audience

Data segmentation may seem to be a standard framework used in the analytics and data science community, yet it deserves a refresher in this age of “...

Measuring Innovation Performance

Innovation can be a key component to drive a company’s success and performance, in both short-term and long-term initiatives. Yet many executives gr...

Solving the Data Bottleneck With Data Democratization

The flow of data into an organization has increased as technology such as AI has been developed and rolled out. Big data is here. Some companies may f...

Perfect Your Product Launches by Powering Them with Predictive Analytics

Predictive analytics is more than a buzzword; it’s two buzzwords used together. But really it's a powerful tool that can profoundly impact business...

Connecting Human-Centered Design to Innovation

With the growth of artificial intelligence and the acceleration of digital transformation, technological developments, shiny new objects and the lates...

Unlocking Business Growth Through Innovation

The business world is changing quickly for innovators and there is a growing and ever-present imperative to keep up. Business model transformations an...

Living in A Digital Transformation World

Digital transformation (DX) has been a hot topic in the innovation space for some time, but the term can be easily misunderstood as well. As we accele...

Innovation Principles, 1/7

Imagine a case where a company’s growth depends on an innovation involving complex cross-disciplinary technologies such as electro-mechanical hardwa...

Exploiting the Present to Explore Tomorrow’s Innovations

With the performance of the overall economy solid at the time of this writing, it becomes more relevant for innovators to weigh their options in terms...

Sustaining the Self-Disruption Journey

The adage “disrupt or be disrupted” may not necessarily always mean the same thing to the same companies. Even the original architects of disrupti...

Reinventing Innovation Through Organizational Development

When thinking about organizational development, one should envision a process of reshaping. This reshaping could be of the company overall, as well as...

Champion Innovation by Engaging with Stakeholders

Especially now in this cross collaborative and multifunctional world, it is becoming more important to identify and engage with key stakeholders to ge...

Identifying Good Friction to Improve the Experience

FEI keynote speaker Soon Yu, Author, Iconic Advantage, Friction, sat down with All Things Innovation’s Seth Adler at the innovation conference earli...

Playing the Game of Disruption

At FEI, Angelina Carvajal, Strategy & Innovation Partner, Sr. Dir. (Optum Advisory), UnitedHealth Group, had a chance to share her thoughts on disrupt...

From Binoculars to Breakthroughs: Birding and Innovation

As summer draws to a close, our urban and rural areas become fleeting sanctuaries for birds migrating south to warmer winter habitats....

Harnessing the Collective Super Mind to Unleash Innovation

As Innovation Director, FIFA World Cup 2022, Oscar Barranco Liebana had a pretty tall order—to manage innovation with the goal to deliver an amazing...

Creating the Happiness Mindset for Innovation

With 2023 often being labeled the year of uncertainty, it comes as no surprise that consumers, and the innovation community, has had its fair share of...

Breaking Through Challenges to Problem Solve

While it’s important to learn from best practices from large and innovative enterprises, it’s also valuable to hear from the startup community. At...

Powering Innovation’s Long-Term Play

Ishan Jaithwa, Manager, New Growth Areas, Cummins Inc., sat down with All Things Innovation’s Seth Adler at our studio at the FEI conference. Jaithw...
Innovation Resources

External Partnerships Fuel Innovation

As part of the continuing series of conversations at FEI with All Things Innovation’s Seth Adler, next on tap is Eric Agdeppa, R&D Director, Innovat...

Benchmark With Your Peers On Industry Spend & Trends

The All Things Innovation Survey Committee along with FEI have created a Spend & Trends survey to provide you the opportunity to benchmark with your p...

Assess Trends Within the Analytics & Data Science Community

The All Things Insights Survey Committee along with KDnuggets, AI Business, The AI Summit, Enter Quantum, IOT World Today, the Digital Analytics Assoc...

Will Skills-Based Talent Propel the Future of Innovation?

Sudha Ranganathan, Director Marketing & Talent Solutions, LinkedIn, knows a thing or two about innovation talent and workforce culture. Seth Adler of...

Move Innovation Beyond Technology to Focus on People

Just what does innovation really mean? There are certainly many definitions and directions that one could take to tackle that broad topic. All Things...

AI Photo Shoot: Innovation Catalyst or Killer?

In a groundbreaking move, Glamour magazine in Bulgaria has unveiled the first-ever magazine cover shoot entirely generated by artificial intelligence...

Design Thinking Faces the Pace of Change

Seth Adler of All Things Innovation recently caught up with Prapti Jha, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, at this year’s FEI co...

Opening the Doors of Innovation Perception

Seth Adler of All Things Innovation caught up with Cory Sorice, SVP and Chief Innovation Officer, Masonite International, during this year’s FEI con...

Connecting Reality and Technology Through the Metaverse

Just what is happening with the metaverse? All Things Innovation’s Seth Adler caught up with Leslie Shannon, Head of Trend & Innovation Scouting, No...

People Remain the Critical Link to Innovation

All Things Innovation’s Seth Adler got a chance to sit down with Milan Ivosevic, VP R&D, CooperSurgical, at this year’s FEI conference. Ivosevic a...

The Future of Work is Reshaping Trends in Innovation

The workplace is shifting and evolving, as we have all experienced, and not just from the significant impact of the coronavirus pandemic, which accele...

Beyond Innovation Theater

At FEI, All Things Innovation conducted a special roundtable, bringing cross industry, cross disciplinarians together to talk about transformation and...

Supporting Data with Design Thinking

At FEI, All Things Innovation conducted a special roundtable, bringing cross industry, cross disciplinarians together to talk about transformation and...

Achieving Transformational Innovation

At FEI, All Things Innovation conducted a special roundtable, bringing cross industry, cross disciplinarians together to talk about transformation and...

Balancing Short-Term And Long-Term Innovation Goals

The latest edition of the Innovation Spend & Trends Report has been released onsite at this year’s FEI: Front End of Innovation conference. Brought...

Putting the Customer First Throughout the Purchase Journey

Innovating around the customer experience (CX) is one key tactic that companies can leverage to stay ahead of the competition and market forces. But w...

Accelerating Innovation with AI and Big Data Analytics

During the recent Front End of Innovation Conference, I had the privilege of leading a roundtable discussion on the use of artificial intelligence (AI...

Strengthen the Supply Chain to Build the Product Pipeline

Supply chain and innovation may not seem related, yet the activities are more connected than one might think. For example, once a product is designed...

IT & Innovation Team to Support New Growth Frontiers

Does information technology (IT) power innovation to new heights? Or does IT slow down and complicate the process? Perhaps the definitive answer depen...

The Finance Factor in Innovation

The finance function in an organization often gets tabbed as a bottom line-oriented, conservative department that more often than not stifles innovati...

Make Insights Critical to the Innovation Process

A growing trend in innovation is to break down silos and work more collaboratively, across teams and departments. This applies to both innovation and...

Setting the Strategic Direction

A chief strategy officer (CSO) is increasingly becoming a more relevant element to a research and development team in an organization. An innovation t...

Unleashing Innovation with UX Design

Taking a design-centric approach can enhance the overall user experience and benefit innovation growth efforts. User experience (UX) is specific to ho...

Managing the Marketing of Innovation

Even some of the best new innovations might fail if there’s no effective marketing behind the product or service. With an emphasis on cross-collabor...

Playing Moneyball for the Win

In the popular baseball movie "Moneyball," the character Peter Brand (played by Jonah Hill) highlights the "epic failure" of MLB leadership in managin...

Putting Together Your Innovation Team

As the community’s recent Innovation Spend & Trends Report indicated, innovation teams are not working in a bubble, or at least not as much as they...

The Progress of Innovation

Technology is shaping our society, taking us in new directions and playing a key role in our lives every day. These forces can disrupt, or delight, co...

Innovation Weighs Advancement of Digital Transformation

In identifying the biggest strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to their businesses, executives in the field also looked back and ahead as...

Sizing Up Your Innovation’s Impact

If your company has successfully developed an innovative product or service, you might be at the stage of the process known as scalability. Perhaps yo...

Leading with Product Innovation

At its core, in the consumer packaged goods world, an innovative product can make an impact in the marketplace and stand out with a focus on newness....

The Value of Insights for Innovation

Integrating insights into innovation is always a challenge but rewards the innovation team with a better understanding of their product or service and...

Leveraging Data Analytics to Drive Innovation

Insights, data and analytics can often work in close partnership with innovation to drive product and service development. Indeed, supporting the inno...

Layoff-Proof Your Career: The Consultant Mindset

Quite early in my career, the conversation during which I received some of the most valuable career advice almost didn't happen. I was asked to stop b...

Generating Innovation Through Ideation

Ideation is often confused with innovation, along with other related terms regarding the creative process, such as brainstorming or design thinking. W...

Managing Talent to Drive Innovation

With the economy producing mixed signals, and companies often in a state of flux, managing innovation talent has never been a more challenging and imp...

Balancing Innovation with Ambidexterity

Innovators have long been tasked with being a flexible part of an ambidextrous team, as part of an organizational cog that can easily pivot and manage...

Choosing Open Innovation for A Positive Collaboration

Call it a gateway to creativity. Creating new pathways to growth, open innovation can be a key tactic that a company can use to open new doors, spark...

Defining Disruptive Innovation

Disruptive innovation is often a phrase used to make a splash in the business world. Some may debate that the label has been applied carelessly at tim...

Create A Blueprint for Success With Innovation Frameworks

The road to innovation development is rarely a straight and narrow path. Often, there are many detours along the way. But taking an innovation framewo...

Going ‘All In’ On Business Transformation

There are many different types of business transformations at play in today’s corporate world. This could, for example, encompass the significant di...

Growing a Culture for Business Innovation

Whether it entails a large jump or a small step, the innovation pipeline for a business keeps it moving forward through a competitive landscape. Busin...

Gaining True Value While Moving Forward

The All Things Innovation community came together in this Gathering on Innovation Strategy to drive immediate lessons learned through the first half o...

Setting the Stage for Product & Brand Innovation

Product innovation and brand growth are often tied together, as it is often said that you can’t have one without the other. Yet in a world filled wi...

Embrace Good Friction to Stimulate Growth

The concept of positive brand friction postulates that it can be used to stimulate and maximize growth, improve the customer experience and enhance ma...

Diving Into Humanity-Centric Innovation

With the continued emergence and evolving development of artificial intelligence, there rises a question of how humans and AI can work together more e...

Innovating With Purpose

Lifestyle brands with purpose are companies that use their products and services to promote a positive message or mission. They strive to make the wor...

Gaining True Value Through The Right Approach To Incrementality

“Gaining True Value Though the Right Approach to Incrementality,” with Mondelez veteran Brigette Wolf, now the CMO of My Mochi, became a key sessi...

Tapping Into the Innovation Talent Pipeline

In the last few years, the pandemic and a range of other economic factors have influenced the talent recruitment, development and retention practices...

Ignite a Culture of Innovation

From the successes to the failures, from the breakthroughs to the breaking points, the innovation community knows all too well that fostering a cultur...

Innovation During A Downturn

Whether you believe the USA is headed toward or already in a recession, there are signs of a slowing or reversal of economic activity. Of the 15 metri...

Celebrating 20 Years of Front End of Innovation

The Front End of Innovation (FEI) conference is the world leader in advancing innovation, and has been running for over two decades in the U.S. and ov...

Striving for Successful Innovation

In the quest for innovation, there is often a fine line between success and failure. The road to success is not always clear, easy or convenient. Howe...

Innovating Through the Metaverse

The Metaverse is a shifting, undefined topic, which is currently the center of much speculation and hype. However, at its center, the concept of the M...

Perspectives On Corporate Venturing

The Rolling Stones might have famously sung, “Start Me Up,” back in the 1980s, and Microsoft later tapped the tune for its Windows 95 marketing ca...

15 Second Workday

This morning I generated 40 new product ideas with concepts and ad copy to accompany each.  It took 15 seconds. This is just a small fraction of what...

Innovation Survey

The All Things Innovation Survey Committee along with FEI have created a Spend & Trends survey to provide you the opportunity to benchmark with your p...

Innovation Diversity

Black, Indigenous and People of Color have always been leaders in innovation and it’s time for us to put that at the forefront. DEI, or Diversity Eq...

2023 Outlook

Known uncertainty. We enter 2023 with some of the most known uncertainty of our lives. Going into 2019- certainty. Going into 2020- certainty-albeit m...

Fostering Innovation

When you start to talk that way and lead that way, people do feel more psychologically safe to support change and support innovation that’s happenin...

Breakthrough Innovation

While the rest of the industry relies on iterative change, Alex Moyes explains the breakthrough innovation happening at Dominion Energy. “So Dominio...

Innovation Reality

When working remotely, the main challenge is bringing people into an office when they live across the country or around the world. The AES Corporation...

Innovation Ecosystems

Innovation is a journey, it’s a continuum of experiences, an act of exploration. The orchestration of ecosystems is more and more important in consi...

Innovation Ventures

The movement for startups and corporate venturing is becoming more and more of a trend in organizations according to Chris Varley, Principal of Goodye...

Control The Sails

Although the world was affected heavily with change in the last few years, not much in the business world has changed as far as topics and issues go....

Innovation Culture

Innovation starts with the employees of an organization. As we know, the people that work for a business are some of its greatest assets. In today’s...

Interaction Innovation

We are at a time in history of incredible change and technological innovations, such as the rise of machine intelligence, and companies who keep doing...

Humanity-Centric Innovation

Humanity-centric innovation is the idea of solving the biggest problems facing humanity in an economically viable way. Pete Dulcamara, Chief Scientist...

Measurable Innovation

Each company has their own KPIs that are important to their specific business in place to progress and be successful. Are people at the forefront of i...

Certain Uncertainty

Life is uncertain in every way. It's always interesting to meet new people and try new things. On the other hand, attackers may sometimes appear out o...

Rolling Innovation

If you’ve done it once, you can do it again. Make sure to keep doing it, it’s rolling innovation. Amber Case sits down with us to discuss how impo...

Strategic Innovation

Any new concept or technological advancement will continue to change and advance. Landlines were commonplace before smartphones. Remember those? What...

Innovation Spend & Trends Report

The Innovation Spend & Trends Report has just been released onsite at FEI: Front End of Innovation. Be among the first to gain from this benchmarking...

Innovation Intelligence

It seems that innovation is one of the biggest buzzwords in business now. To sustain growth and be competitive in the marketplace, companies in every...

Innovation As Constant Change

The key strategy to a successful business is to know when they are being innovative or are just transforming their status quo according to market tren...

Innovation versus Transformation

Many people think digital transformation and innovation are one in the same, but according to Hatrick, while they are closely related, there is a diff...