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Is the Pet Industry Failing to Deliver on the Biggest Consumer Need of the Decade?

by Raff Viton on July 1, 2010 5:17 PM

"Wake Up Champ!" Is the Pet Industry failing to deliver on the biggest consumer need of the decade? "The more you love, the harder you fight." I was watching the movie The Champ again the... More »

Rotate! Team Exercises Spur Innovation

by Michael Maddock on May 27, 2010 12:17 PM

Here is a simple technique that we learn in school that will help you tone your idea muscles and pump up your teams. I went to a high school with hundreds of kids in each... More »

Constructing Your Innovation Portfolio

by Maddock and Viton on May 26, 2010 10:04 AM

Factor the four classes of innovation into how your company contemplates investing in product development With the rather negative exceptions of Enron, Bernie Madoff, and WorldCom, finance is not the first place we think of... More »

Bipartisan Innovation

by Maddock and Viton on May 5, 2010 11:21 AM

Without the coupling of left- and right-brain thinking, your product and your entire venture are bound to end up precipitously off balance Does your company lean too far to the right? Or would a visitor... More »

Reinvention and Reformation - An Innovation Balancing Act

by Maria Umbach on April 23, 2010 10:25 AM

"Private innovators with the right intentions will reduce reforms and enable reinventions." I recently listened to President Obama speak in New York City about his plan to reform the financial services industry . Among other... More »

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Why Conscious Capitalism Will Be The Framework For Your Next Decade Of Innovation

by Maddock and Viton on January 11, 2010 12:11 PM

The profit motive, not government or charity, will create the kind of socially responsible world we want our kids and grand-kids to grow up in Adapted from "Conscious Capitalism: Not Just Capitalist Pigs", originally published... More »

5 Big Changes For Social Media In 2010

by Raff Viton on January 13, 2010 10:35 AM

So far, 2010 has been the year of the tablet, the Blu-Ray, the e-reader, and 3D entertainment . These ideas represent fine consumer product innovations, but let's take a moment and talk about business models.... More »

Failure, Glorious Failure

by Marc Stoiber on April 7, 2010 9:28 AM

Failure is what happens when innovation goes wrong, right? Wrong. When I was asked to write about grand innovation failures, it seemed a perfect entertainment opportunity – the Darwin Awards of the business world. All... More »

What Business Are Insurance Companies REALLY In?

by Maria Umbach on April 2, 2010 10:08 AM

Theodore Levitt wrote a famous paper on the subject of Marketing Myopia in the 1960’s at the beginning of the modern marketing movement. After re-reading an excerpt, it became clear to me that the insurance... More »

What's Next For the Print Industry? The Future of Media Consumption

by Michelle Oldham on January 15, 2010 10:53 AM

The inevitable decline of the print industry over the last ten years doesn’t mean people are reading less—in fact they’re reading more. Those early adopters willing to utilize new generations of digital reading devices enjoy... More »

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