In my previous article, Innovation for Long Term Sustainability, I explored how investing in innovation should be embedded into your enterprise...

In today's dynamic business landscape, innovation is crucial for long-term sustainability. By investing in innovation, organizations can adapt,...

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Technology Innovation to Accelerate Growth was the theme of a recent innovation workshop and tour of MIT’s Innovation Headquarters (iHQ) in...

Introduction In today's ever-evolving digital landscape, organizations that utilize data and analytics to drive innovation consistently come out on...

The challenge we are facing is three-fold. First, we need to continue providing reliable energy to homes, hospitals, schools and businesses to meet increasing societal demand and boost productivity and prosperity.

The pace of change in tech and particularly AI as well as funding seem to be the top challenges early-stage companies face. For startups in particular, the pace of innovation can be exhausting, while large companies seem to have an advantage where they can skip generational shifts, so long as they are sufficiently established.

One challenge to technological innovation is creating a culture of learning and adaptability. A company’s competitive advantage can quickly become a commodity, which means innovation is critical for sustained success.

For healthcare technologies, one challenge is access to the right end-users, essential support personnel and subject matter experts. Many startups will create solutions without engaging the right stakeholders, resulting in technologies that are suboptimal, or worse, they solve a problem that may not exist.

A case history on an organization’s evolution – from retail to a health and wellness company. Leveraging technology to commercialize and optimize the customer journey, Sleep Number advanced omnichannel digitization to continue meeting the needs of their customers.

“An excellent forum for discovery of like communities to accelerate ideas, insights and real-world case studies.”

The world is changing at a faster and faster pace (at least it feels like it). There are always endless problems to solve, and innovations to offer solutions. How do we manage innovation that solves the targeted problem?



Single industry thinking is dead. Capabilities needed for tomorrow are at the intersection of industries, expertise areas/technologies and the future of work. No one on the industry can teach you this.

Working across the organization brings innovators unique insights. Generalists will support in narrowing down the broader industry to find growth opportunities.

Innovation Infrastructure: Enabling Ideas to Impact Presented by Tim Miano Executive Director MIT Office of Innovation

In this 3rd series article, I’ll shift focus to what actions and strategies that I am seeing drive sustained innovative impact, and importantly, set a model for success moving forward.

Culture is key. This is by far the most important element of getting the right people and forming the right product innovation team.

UX Design is an iterative process. We need to understand the most basic user needs that we are designing for. If Google didn’t start with a search, then users would have never known how to use its Map.

Businesses will increasingly incorporate just-in-case strategies as opposed to just-in-time manufacturing in order to improve supply chain resilience.

In this lively and candid discussion, investors will share insights into the top trends on how businesses are integrating startups into their full enterprise strategy.

Data, discussion & important market insights from experts and peers, the Council helps senior executives sharpen strategies.

The event, themed Being Dynamic in a Post-Pandemic World, was punctuated by the participants’ excitement in exchanging ideas.

We can expect that virtual reality will have a substantial effect on our free time, impacting entertainment pursuits, travel & hobbies.

This ensures a strong commonly understood sense of purpose that in turn drives work methods, processes, behaviors or habits.

At Monument Chemical, we strive to be agile scientists who work quickly, efficiently — and successfully — on behalf of our customers.

At Johnson Controls, our Global Services team has recently focused on a vital, but often overlooked factor in these teams’ success: role clarity.