Now that my latest book, Winning through Innovation is on the bookshelves, I decided to take it a step further and sponsor a student fellowship at my alma mater, Harvey Mudd College. The selected student will work this summer on a yet-to-be-determined project related to innovation under the direction of Professor Zach Dodds. I was asked to speak to the college’s Legacy Society and Board of Trustees on why I felt it was important to support the college in this way, and I was happy to do so....

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 different market,...

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...