From the Archives — December 2014

The following post is from the blog archives from a year ago (originally posted on December 4, 2014 http://www.5oclockreflections.com/innovation/). We seek to do things that have never been done before. While true disruption is the exclusive … [Read more...]

Innovation, Engagement and Impact

Ivory tower research in academe is driven by those who write for academic journals — writings that are filed away in libraries and databases, and become obscure overtime. The tide has changed at smaller, teaching driven, schools that focus on … [Read more...]

Innovation

We seek to do things that have never been done before. While true disruption is the exclusive domain of the few, the rest of us should focus on getting better at, and making incremental improvements to what exists – products, processes, people. In … [Read more...]

Develop Killer Mechanisms

The key to successful innovation is creative thinking and creative destruction. Out with the old, in with the new. The goal is to allocate resources for innovation with an end deliverable in mind. Innovation without objectives is a little bit like … [Read more...]