Companies should only partner with investors willing to reward them for creating long-term value for our society as a whole. And luckily, the way investors evaluate companies is changing as they look towards Sustainable Investing that consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Large corporations will feel the change the

The job of a leader isn’t to know all the answers, but to create conditions by which an entire team gets to learn and innovate. To achieve this, leaders need to understand how to hire people for co-creative problem-solving. Leaders need to build teams that can both define the

If you want to succeed in innovation; aim high. Most effective innovators focus on solving BIG problems. They also see innovation as a means to an end, not the end goal. In contrast, less effective innovators focus their innovation investments on incremental improvements to existing products and services. Several practices

In a new study, researchers found that small teams out-innovate large teams. Smaller teams consistently find completely new ideas, while larger teams more often add information to existing ideas. It doesn't mean that there isn't a place for large teams, it just means they are best suited to confirming or

Experimentation is foundational to any team that’s serious about innovation. But what activities and behaviors encourage experimentation and make sure that new ideas see the light of day? While there’s no formula or single initiative that will make a company an innovation leader, there are some ways you

Obviousness, it turns out, is a common and even important, part of the creative process for some of the best-known innovators, including Steve Jobs. "When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It

By now, most organizations have concluded that they face the threat of disruption, and need to innovate. Companies often make the mistake of viewing innovation as a set of unconstrained activities with no discipline. In reality, innovation needs to be designed as a process from start to deployment. It starts