Robert Brands - Innovation Coach

Innovation and Idea Management: From Ideation to Collaboration to Execution

Innovation thrives on a diet of news ideas. Alt: Innovation: What a great idea ! It needs new views, fresh thinking, a different perspective from across the organization. We've noted that Innovation = Creative x Risk Taking. Setting aside risk for ... Read >

Does a ‘Chief Innovation Officer’ Inspire Your Team?

Who inspires your team? Who develops the ideas, promotes an environment that fosters creative camaraderie, nourishes espirit de corps - and steers the organization toward greatness? In short, who is your Chief Innovation Officer? Every organization t... Read >

Accountability: The Rudder of Innovation in a Changing Business Environment

As companies and organizations pursue innovation to transform themselves from what they currently are or offer, to what they want to become or provide the marketplace, accountability is the rudder that steers pursuits and prevents a wandering, directionle... Read >

Experimentation + Risk (+ Failure) = Improved Environment for Innovation

Thomas Alva Edison was a failure. It has been said that he "went back to the drawing board" more than 6,000 times before finding the right plant to produce a carbonized filament for his incandescent light bulb. Six thousand times. Do you have that kind o... Read >