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Why Innovation Ecosystems are Crucial for Defense Organizations

October 12, 2020
The nature of warfare has changed. To keep up, governments and industry must work together to keep pace with the competition and meet today's needs for defense and security innovation. Read More

The End of Engine Design

Ron Lee by Ron Lee
September 24, 2020
I recently read an interesting post speculating on the end of engine design and discussing not when the last internal combustion engine (ICE) will be sold, but when it will last be designed. I have been thinking about the same situation for some time and I would argue that, if anything, the end of... Read More

Unblocking innovation for a global tech company

September 10, 2020
Innovation and IoT Champion Dave Locke draws on more than 30 years of experience at IBM to share some invaluable advice for businesses of all shapes and sizes. When it comes to innovation, businesses of all types and sizes face enormous challenges. In one of our Innovation Blockers reports, we... Read More

Innovation’s Perception Gap

August 18, 2020
In business culture today, there is still a broad, albeit implicit, belief that innovation is innate. Whether you’re a person or a company, you either have it or you don’t. If Steve Jobs is your CEO, high-flying innovation is inevitable. Otherwise, you’re destined for mediocrity. Read More

Pulse of Innovation: Innovating through a Crisis

July 21, 2020
Every so often we ask our community to sound off on popular topics in innovation and share their best tips, tricks, and advice in hopes that their answers may inspire others in the field. We’ve gathered these insights by email, over phone calls, at events and roundtables, and catching up with... Read More

Tips for Intellectual Property Alerts

July 07, 2020
As your organization’s researchers innovate, your intellectual property (IP) portfolio exponentially grows over time. However, that does not always mean that the number of staff members in your TTO grows alongside it. As a result, it is necessary to develop new strategies to make your team’s... Read More

The Future of 3D Printing in a Post-COVID World

June 23, 2020
Of the many procedural and technological changes in manufacturing over the past few decades, 3D printing is one of the more futuristic concepts to emerge. When the world stabilizes from the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic effects, 3D printing is one emerging technology with a trajectory that may... Read More

Methods of measuring innovation: using failure to fuel success

June 18, 2020
Ex-R&D Director for an international technology company, Paul Northey, shares the challenges he faced trying to transform company culture in accepting failure as a positive means of measuring innovation success. Research collated for our Innovation Blockers report reveals that measuring and proving... Read More

Superior Decision-Making in Defense Organizations

June 16, 2020
This article was originally published by Defence & Security Systems International. Read More

WEBINAR: How Innovation Problem-Solving Can Build Better Teams

June 08, 2020
WITH GUEST SPEAKER Michelle Cohen Director of Innovation at CME Group The CME Group’s innovation team follows best practices that should be familiar to many corporate innovators: driving structured, collaborative, and creative thinking that creates value for their customers and the business. Along... Read More

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