How to Implement the Best Corporate Innovation Model
Corporate innovation can be tricky and hard to do successfully. You don’t want innovation theatre – you need actual results. Therefore, how does a company in a slow-moving industry get innovation right? As a consulting company, we have the unique opportunity to work with a lot of companies in a wide variety of industries. In […]
Border Crossing Boosts Innovation in the Workplace
Border crossing refers to the practice of going beyond preconceived categories of what is legitimate and what is not. We can achieve innovation in the workplace by placing greater importance on understanding our employees. What is Border Crossing? Border crossers can check their presumptions about their role and venture into unfamiliar territory. Gaining a broader […]
HOW DRAFTLINE IS DRIVING INNOVATION
Spencer Gordon is the Senior VP of Digital at Anheuser-Busch, he’s been with AB his entire career. He even launched Draftline to switch up their marketing process. Draftline is an in-house creative agency that is full service with over 77 people across 42 brands. Josh and Spencer talk about the changing digital marketing process, where […]
How to Say No at Work
Are you a yes person? I’m definitely a yes person. With a deep-rooted fear of missing out, I’m constantly agreeing to things. Whether that is taking on an extra task at work or agreeing to do 4001 things with my family, I’m always in. I noticed, moving into this new year, it was time to […]
Story Mapping for Your Internal Team
Our team uses story mapping to strategize with customers. It allows for collaboration by creating a story of what a product will look like and how it will be built. From a Project Manager’s internal perspective, story mapping is incredibly helpful. Not only does it help your Design and Development teams move quickly, but it […]
How a Design Prototype Can Save You Time & Money
A design prototype is an interactive visualization of your future product or service: created to facilitate, collect and implement end-user feedback. Many use prototyping in their software development process. However, not everyone utilizes its full potential to save time and money. The Benefits of Prototyping Before we start let’s review what makes prototyping useful and […]
How to Plan Your Innovation Strategy for 2020
It’s that time of year when our customers are considering an innovation strategy by planning projects they would like to accomplish throughout the next year. We assist our customers by facilitating an innovation assessment and planning process. I thought I would lay out our general 5-step process so that others can use this in their […]
What is a Minimum Viable Product? And Do I Need One?
To be honest, I’m probably the last person on this team that should be writing this post. However, when you own the content for the blog – you also own the responsibility for people to write in it. Funny how that works. So – here we are and we can learn this together, what is […]
How Can You Cultivate an Innovation Mindset
I started at CIL almost a year ago and developing an innovation mindset was not something I even considered. At the time, I thought innovation was a buzzword. A chef was innovative, a real estate company was using innovation to sell more homes. See? Buzzword. However, when the place you work lives and breathes something […]
Innovations in IoT | Ep. 30
SUMMARY This is Episode 30 of Ask an Innovator and Scott Fletcher from Locator X is here with us today to discuss creating innovations in IoT. Josh and Scott discuss the beginnings of Locator X. How they started with a miniature atomic clock that is embedded into a chip that can be placed on any […]