Innovation Insights
by Stephen Shapiro

It seems as though everyone wants to write a book. Unfortunately, most people don’t know where to start and, therefore, become under-motivated or overwhelmed. The result? Good intentions; no book. But what if you could

The late Steve Jobs once said, “Creativity is just having enough dots to connect…connect experiences and synthesize new things. The reason creative people are able to do that is that they’ve had more experiences or

I recently had the great privilege of interviewing Chris Griffiths, the author of a new book on innovation, “GRASP The Solution.” He provides some very interesting perspectives on innovation. Chris is the CEO of ThinkBuzan,

Most organizations focus their energies on ideas, suggestions, and opinions. But for innovation to be efficient and focused, you need to ask better questions. What do you do when you don’t even know what questions

As I write this, I am sitting in a Starbucks in London, England. Cars and taxis are zipping by on the street in front of me as I sip my espresso. Although I lived in

Ten years ago today was my last day with Accenture. The day before I had my book launch party for my first book, 24/7 Innovation. October 11, 2001. I recently found a notebook from about

My new book, Best Practices Are Stupid, has been all over the news lately. Here’s just a small sample… Interview on ABC News (click video above) Review on Fortune.com – “Why your company (probably) can’t

There is one principle that I wish companies would learn: customer’s don’t care how your business is structured; they just want it to be easy to work with you. Or as the late, great Dr.

I am excited because today my 5th book, Best Practices Are Stupid: 40 Ways to Out-Innovate the Competition, is published by Penguin. You can watch a short video about the book. And after you are

Chris Martin created this cool graphic that is the mantra for my new book. As you can see, it includes the url for our soon to be launched website.

Dennis McCafferty from Baseline Magazine, created a cool slideshow that features ten of the tips from my upcoming book. Although the names of the tips were changed (maybe to protect the innocent), you will get

In one week (September 29th), my new book will be available in book stores, online, and on the Kindle. It is published by Penguin’s Portfolio imprint. For those of you who are new to this

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