Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Creativity is a business asset. But very few companies treat creativity like a job expectation and incorporate it into their performance development system. As a result, businesses are missing value t...

As we welcome a new year it's the best time to focus on what can be achieved and people who fought for their dreams and achieved their goals even when people said they could not.

Creative imitation is not limited to businesses. Every organization – and probably most importantly government agencies – must now practice creative swiping to achieve tremendous increases in performa...

Every organization desires to grow. But only a handful have a growth policy, let alone a set of explicit growth strategies.

There are two ways to imitate the innovations of others—namely; (1) developing a "me-too” or copycat offering to compete directly against the originator's innovation and; (2) launching a creative imit...

Strategic marketers start out with finding out what the customer needs and then design their products and services to fulfill those needs.

Learning is thinking with other people's ideas. The trick is to associate, adapt, magnify, minify, substitute and rearrange. Ed's Ink by MMN's editorial staff provides you with a unique opportunity le...

Michael Nesmith from the mid-1960's rock band The Monkees may seem like an unlikely role model for getting ahead in today's competitive business environment. But you can learn a lot from how he's embr...

Uncommon commitment to achieving a goal, and pushing on despite roadblocks and naysayers, is what separates the winners from the runner-ups.

A major mistake involves treating the innovative venture the same way as the ongoing business. Budgets for the ongoing business and budgets for innovative efforts should be kept separate.

Most experienced entrepreneurs know that success can be fleeting. Smugness and hubris are often the reasons why. The key take-away in this article is not to neglect your own success.

Price drives the perception of value, and unfortunately most customers don't understand value.