One of the stories I share in my new book, Winning Through Innovation is how a small team of innovators from Hewlett-Packard once convinced company leaders to let them take over a poorly performing product line that was scheduled to be shut down. Known as the “High-Speed Sampling Oscilloscope” product line, company leaders believed the market had moved to a different technology, and this one had no future. The team of innovators thought differently. They redesigned it for a

I’ve been a guest on several podcasts recently, and during one of them the host asked me to describe the process I use for taking a...

In addition to writing books, I occasionally write articles for print and online publications. I’ve never been one to use AI to write...

We all know innovation is important to a company’s success. Maxims like “innovate or die” and “obsolete yourself before your competitors...

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I will get right to the point. The biggest threat to innovation in any company is its senior leadership team: its C-suite of officers....

In my last blog post, I stated that mid-level managers (managers who manage other managers but are below the company’s C-suite of...

I’m hard at work on my latest book for the business community, tentatively titled Winning Through Innovation: The Essential Guide for...

While reading about a recent challenge in the IT industry, I came across a newspaper article in which a public official who should know...