Innovation Maturity: A Framework for Increasing Innovation Productivity

Stephen Pritchard
Gerard Ryan, featured inKNOWvations guest writer, discusses how to build innovation maturity to better leverage the investments made in new product and business innovation. Read more...

5 Lessons Big Corporations Can Learn From Startups

Shawn Parr
There’s a stark contrast between the slow pontification of a multi-national company and the focused energy of a small startup poised to change its corner of the world. Business practices obviously change when there’s more to lose, but there is definitely something to gain from adopting the startup mentality of “everything to gain” rather than focusing on keeping the status quo or minimizing potential loss.

Here are five valuable lessons that corporations can learn from their entrepreneurial counterparts in the startup world. Read more...

Web 2.0 Tools Are Helping But Too Many Projects Still Fail

Stephen Pritchard
Businesses have to innovate in order to grow, but less than half of new products launched by companies in the last three years have been a success. Companies need to collaborate much more with their customers, and IT is a key tool for doing this. Read more...