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...
Innovation Articles by Matt Kramer
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...
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...