Employee Engagement is Key to Unlocking AI for Innovation Management
Discover how to prepare your workforce for the AI revolution, engage employees in AI technology, and harness its potential for innovation with LaunchPath.
Edwin Goutier
Social Innovation Management: A Nonprofit Leader's Handbook
Leading nonprofit innovation can be hard. Here's an expert guide to make it a little easier.
Edwin Goutier
5 Steps to Create Your Innovation Strategy
Sometimes the hardest part of creating an innovation strategy is not knowing where to start. Here's a quick primer to develop your strategy MVP in an afternoon.
Edwin Goutier
New Feature: Help Guides
In-context innovation guidance
Mannie Schumpert
5 Ways to Become a More Innovative Team
You know how the game of solitaire sometimes leaves you stuck, and then you reshuffle the deck and everything starts to flow? Your business is like that too.
Gray Somerville
LaunchPath's New Logo and That Moment When Things Just Click
As is true with most innovations, it started with a problem, but innovative solutions rarely if ever "just click."
Gray Somerville
What If My Employees' Ideas Suck?
Gray Somerville
Your Pandemic Opportunity
You know how the game of Solitaire sometimes leaves you stuck, and then you reshuffle the deck and everything starts to flow? The COVID-19 pandemic is just like that – a massive reshuffling that is allowing wildly new patterns and possibilities to emerge.
Gray Somerville
The Minimum Viable Entrepreneur
what are the bare bones minimum characteristics and competencies of a person who could identify an innovative new business opportunity and and grow it to revenues in excess of $10MM / Yr.?
Gray Somerville
Why We Need to Generate Lots of Ideas
Linus Pauling, a famous American scientist and two-time winner of the Nobel prize, once commented that, “the best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas and throw the bad ones away.”
Gray Somerville
To Succeed As an Intrapreneur: Ask the Right Questions
Einstein once remarked that if he had an hour to solve a problem, he would use the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask. In this post we share some practical tips for asking questions that reveal your true innovation opportunity.
Gray Somerville
Find a Problem You Love
The philosopher Karl Popper wrote that “there is only one way to science – or to philosophy, for that matter: to meet a problem, to see its beauty and fall in love with it; to get married to it and to live with it happily, till death do ye part ….”
Gray Somerville
Guessing & Testing: The Two-Stroke Engine that Drives Innovation
The innovation process is different from almost everything else we do. While standard business processes apply what is already known, the innovation process is a search for what is yet unknown.
Gray Somerville
The Innovation Doomsday Clock
The Doomsday Clock, first published on the cover of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1947, sent a wake up call to the world. The “Innovation Doomsday Clock” doesn’t exist... but it should.
Gray Somerville
Why CEOs Hate Suggestion Boxes (It's not what you think)
It's not because they're arrogant jerks who think they have all the answers.
Gray Somerville
Becoming an Intrapreneur: My Story
Early in my career, I managed to double my salary and triple my organizational influence by taking an entrepreneurial approach to my work.
Gray Somerville
The Path to Intrapreneurship
Want to become an intrapreneur? Here's the path.
Gray Somerville
ELI5: What Is Innovation?
Can you define innovation in 5 words or less? Can you name the 3 basic categories of innovation or the 12 components of any business innovation? In this post, all becomes clear.
Gray Somerville
Intrapreneurship Requires Trust. Are You Worthy?
Two questions every intrapreneur should ponder before asking their boss to back a project.
Gray Somerville
Seeing the World Through Your CEO's Eyes
To succeed as an intrapreneur, you need to learn to see the world through the eyes of your CEO.
Gray Somerville
12 Questions Every Business Idea Must Answer
What is a business idea? The question sounds straight forward enough, yet it’s surprisingly hard to answer.
Gray Somerville
Innovation Habit #2: Start With Problems, Not Ideas
What real innovators value are problems. Big, important, clearly articulated problems.
Gray Somerville
Innovation Habit #1: Put It On the Calendar
The striking difference between the successful innovator and the wannabe is that the innovator does something whereas the wannabe most often does nothing.
Gray Somerville
A Beginner's Guide to Innovation
The goal of innovation is to create value for one or more of your organization's stakeholders by changing one or more of the components of your organization.
Gray Somerville
How Innovative Companies Get Organized to Innovate
In this blog, we are going to quickly list out and define some key team roles and show you how they interact throughout the innovation program.
Gray Somerville
Getting Ready to Innovate: How to Define Your Innovation Priorities
When it comes to innovation, you might feel a little like a mosquito in a nudist colony - you know what you’re here for, but where do you begin?
Gray Somerville
How Innovative Companies Make Time for Innovation: A Review of Best Practices
The #1 barrier to new product innovation according to most CEOs is a simple lack of time. In this post we examine the three techniques that innovative small and medium-sized companies use to beat the clock without breaking the bank.
Gray Somerville