by Margaret Manson
We live in the Knowledge Economy, where knowledge is the hard currency. As with any other hard currency, quantity is only upstaged by how you use it. Here, a single insight into customers’ needs can make all the difference. But the most important insight comes...
by Margaret Manson
I was eavesdropping on a conversation on one of my LinkedIn groups on the subject. All too often companies invest considerable time, cost and effort in ‘innovation’ without return. The CEO gets inspired by the idea of innovation, persuaded by an article,...
by Margaret Manson
You know that feeling when you have opened a can of worms? I just did that. I sent out email to Friends of InnoFuture today to share the exciting news about InnoFuture DOJO and did three things that didn’t go down well: included images of Obama, Jobs and...
by Margaret Manson
Whirlpool Corporation has become a modern textbook case of a massive corporate transformation, through Innovation that swept the entire 70,000+ workforce . Whirlpool’s heroic journey has been documented in the 2008 book “Unleashing Innovation at Whirlpool” by...
by Margaret Manson
Today I bemourn the demise of Blackberry. It has been my friend and the most wonderful piece of business technology for a mobile business. After five year of great service, I have defected to the next market leader, Galaxy Nexus.Why? I dont care about the touch...
by Margaret Manson
Australia ranks 21 on the Global Innovation 2011 Index. That is six places behind our smaller neighbour, New Zealand. Innovation pays. It is innovation, doing things differently and finding new ways to connect the dots in our complex world, that accounts for fame and...