Business Innovation & Networking Blog
Canadian Federal Budget 2017 Focuses on Business Innovation (Good News for Ontario SMEs!)
Ontario – particularly southern Ontario – is one of the most competitive business environments in the country. This landscape forces businesses to improve constantly to stay alive, through innovation in areas like customer service, market diversification,...
How a hackathon can encourage your employees to innovate
*Originally published as a Guest Column in The Globe and Mail on March 16, 2017: click here to access. Everyone in business has heard the expression that if you’re not disrupting your market, someone else will soon be disrupting you. But this raw challenge doesn’t...
Strengthen Your Trademark, Strengthen Your Business
When choosing a trademark that will be the face of your brand, it is important to remember that while a trademark may be strong from a business perspective, building its value in the marketplace will depend on your ability to protect it. The goal of any good trademark...
5 Strategy Questions to Ask to Discover WHERE You Need to Innovate
Innovation is all about finding new ways to do things, whether you are implementing a new process, building a culture of innovation, creating innovative products and services, changing your business model, or applying new technologies. In today’s marketplace,...
New Video! What Is Innovation and What Does Innovators Alliance Do?
What Is Innovation and Why Is It Important? As an organization dedicated to facilitating innovation, this is a question we often answer. At its simplest, innovation is a new idea, device, or method. It can be a new product or a new way of doing things. It can be...
Developing a Culture of Innovation
Peter Drucker, the management consultant, educator, and author famously said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”. In my travels meeting with CEOs, one of the common refrains is that they would like to “develop a culture of innovation” within their organizations....
Digital Disruption Demands Innovative Business Models
Technology is a double-edged sword – creating opportunity for many businesses while wreaking havoc for others. Companies that adapt to the current rapid technological change are forging ever-larger gaps between themselves and their competitors. These forward-looking...
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History Reveals Innovation Needs Play [TED Talk Video]
Invention and innovation are closely linked concepts – invention is the creation of new ideas while innovation the application of those new ideas in new ways. Innovation is the life-blood of businesses big and small; you must consistently innovate to remain...
Happy Holidays from Innovators Alliance!
The Innovators Alliance team would like to wish you a happy holiday season! Tis the Season for Innovation Families are participating in their favourite holiday traditions at this time of the year: hanging stockings, decorating the tree, lighting the menorah, playing...
Why Your Company Is Failing to Innovate
An executive recently said to me: “Our company has become very innovative. We have hundreds of ideas that we have analyzed and know are right for our future. We just haven’t been able to bring them to market yet.” Strike one, strike two and strike three. This...
