Business Innovation & Networking Blog
A Break for Adventure: Innovators Alliance at SNOLab Part 1
Recently, an entire chapter of Innovators Alliance members took the long 5 hour drive up north to Sudbury, Ontario for a visit to SNOLab (Sudbury Neutrino Observation Laboratory). Celebrated as one of the deepest laboratories in the world, we all took the one and a...
Sales Reps: Avoid the 20 Questions Approach to Business Innovation
Sales reps: when it comes to business innovation, those executives you are meeting with don’t have time to play 20 questions. Far too often, sales representatives fall flat in prospect meetings because of this approach – but sometimes all it takes to fix this issue is...
Gut Check Time…When it Come to Business Innovation, Which Direction Do You Want Your Business to Go?
Gut check time – as daunting as the future may be, as the head of your organization, it is something that is likely on your mind a great deal of the time. Knowing when to go with the flow and when to cause a disruption is a crucial part of staying ahead of the...
Leadership Development: If You’re the Smartest Person in the Room, You’re in the Wrong Room
I recently read a Forbes article, “Remembering Warren Bennis: The Father of Leadership Development”, written after the passing of scholar and author Warren Bennis, and it got me thinking about the entire concept of leadership development and why it so often fails....
Innovation Business Ideas Making Your Head Spin? Here’s an Idea – Start with Baby Steps
Change management: a phrase heard often now in the world of business. Innovation within an organization is often praised as the key to future successes, but we often get caught up with this notion and find ourselves hung up and thus stalled by the prospect of creating...
Continuous Change Management: Get Back to the Drawing Board
Last year you grabbed the bull by the horns and made some much needed changes to your business model. Right now, your product is selling well, your people are all aligned and happy, your bank is happy and most of all, you should be happy too. Time to sit back and...
Innovation Communication Strategy: What to Do if Your Team is Stuck in a Rut
One of the biggest challenges when it comes to creating a culture of innovation within a given organization is creating an environment that encourages a flow of creativity. The need for continual change management grows ever stronger in the face of competition, and...
Employee Engagement: “Start from where you are, use what you have and do what you can” – Arthur Ashe (1943-1993)
“Start from where you are, use what you have and do what you can” – Arthur Ashe (1943-1993). How poignant are these simple little words? Everything we do makes a difference in something or someone. We like to think that, when it comes to business innovation, employee...
Business Innovation: Will Your ‘Outside the Box’ Idea Truly Works? You Need to Blow Up the Box!
Often when it comes to business innovation, the go-to phrase seems to be thinking outside the box. Even though it is the box that may be keeping us all grounded, it really is that box that is preventing us from soaring. Using the excuse that change only works to cause...
The 90% Rule: Ken Tencer’s Advice to Canadian Entrepreneurs
I had coffee the other day with Ken Tencer, author of The 90% Rule – What’s Your Next Big Opportunity and Cause a Disturbance. We got chatting about the advice he gives to Canadian Entrepreneurs and we got on the topic of his recent article in The Globe and Mail,...
