Last week Barcelona was the place to be with both the colossal Mobile World Congress and the much more targeted Breakthrough Innovations (BI) conference. BI was focused on innovative product development with product leaders from a range of industries, including telecom to consumer products to... Read More

Your NPD process is stuck in the 80s when… Your organization still calls it ‘gated process'. Your portfolio of projects consists of an Excel™ spreadsheet. Projects get into the process and never get killed. Concepts are generated from random brainstorming or are management pet projects. Your... Read More

Stage-Gate ® recently celebrated its 30th birthday. We felt this would be a good occasion to take a closer look at where Stage-Gate comes from, its role and status today, and whether there is a future for this methodology. You cannot find a better person to answer these questions than the inventor... Read More

I'm delighted to announce today that Wellspring has closed a $5M round of growth capital led by MK Capital. We concluded 2013 with our strongest year to date, posting substantial, profitable growth in each of our major sectors: academic markets, corporate innovation / R&D, and health care.... Read More

You interview, hire, show them to their desks, and then what, hope for the best? Hiring an inspired and innovative staff is one of the biggest challenges you as a manager will ever take on, but getting innovative results from your staff takes more than just hiring the best candidate. Read More

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An organization's innovation efforts become more efficient and effective if they are tied to the company's strategic planning process. Linking the two processes, however, is easier said then done. How can companies use their strategic plans to guide innovation? One way to do this is to identify... Read More

Many experts would suggest that innovation is the heart of an organization. Without healthy innovation, eventually the company will cease to thrive and possibly even die. How do you know if the health of your innovation is suffering? Most likely, there will be an unfavorable manifestation in... Read More

In a recent blog post, I began this theme with a brief discussion of how text mining can help find white spaces for discovery and business intelligence. This post is about how with help of text mining techniques you can transform masses of “unstructured” data (texts, documents, etc.) into a very... Read More

Text mining is a software technology that can help read unstructured texts. In other words, it recognizes grammatical structures of sentences, phrases and words and creates a kind of “fingerprint” from the source text as a result. Combined with conventional database indexing techniques, the... Read More