Why Funders Must Build Capacity for Nonprofit Innovation

Explore the critical role of funders in building nonprofit innovation capacity to address complex societal challenges. Learn more about the importance of flexible funding, leadership development, and collaborative experimentation while emphasizing inclusive innovation to drive equitable, long-term community impact.

Innovation Management is Key to Engaging Employees in the AI Revolution

Discover how to prepare your workforce for the AI revolution, engage employees in AI technology, and harness its potential for innovation management with LaunchPath.

Social Innovation Management: A Nonprofit Leader's Handbook

Leading nonprofit innovation can be hard. Here's an expert guide to make it a little easier.

5 Steps to Create Your Innovation Strategy

Sometimes the hardest part of creating an innovation strategy is not knowing where to start. Here's a quick primer to develop your strategy MVP in an afternoon.

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5 Ways to Become a More Innovative Team

You know how the game of solitaire sometimes leaves you stuck, and then you reshuffle the deck and everything starts to flow? Your business is like that too.

LaunchPath's New Logo and That Moment When Things Just Click

As is true with most innovations, it started with a problem, but innovative solutions rarely if ever "just click."

What If My Employees' Ideas Suck?

Your Pandemic Opportunity

You know how the game of Solitaire sometimes leaves you stuck, and then you reshuffle the deck and everything starts to flow? The COVID-19 pandemic is just like that – a massive reshuffling that is allowing wildly new patterns and possibilities to emerge.

The Minimum Viable Entrepreneur

what are the bare bones minimum characteristics and competencies of a person who could identify an innovative new business opportunity and and grow it to revenues in excess of $10MM / Yr.?

Why We Need to Generate Lots of Ideas

Linus Pauling, a famous American scientist and two-time winner of the Nobel prize, once commented that, “the best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas and throw the bad ones away.”

To Succeed As an Intrapreneur: Ask the Right Questions

Einstein once remarked that if he had an hour to solve a problem, he would use the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask. In this post we share some practical tips for asking questions that reveal your true innovation opportunity.

Find a Problem You Love

The philosopher Karl Popper wrote that “there is only one way to science – or to philosophy, for that matter: to meet a problem, to see its beauty and fall in love with it; to get married to it and to live with it happily, till death do ye part ….”

Guessing & Testing: The Two-Stroke Engine that Drives Innovation

The innovation process is different from almost everything else we do. While standard business processes apply what is already known, the innovation process is a search for what is yet unknown.

The Innovation Doomsday Clock

The Doomsday Clock, first published on the cover of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1947, sent a wake up call to the world. The “Innovation Doomsday Clock” doesn’t exist... but it should.

Why CEOs Hate Suggestion Boxes (It's not what you think)

It's not because they're arrogant jerks who think they have all the answers.

Becoming an Intrapreneur: My Story

Early in my career, I managed to double my salary and triple my organizational influence by taking an entrepreneurial approach to my work.

The Path to Intrapreneurship

Want to become an intrapreneur? Here's the path.

ELI5: What Is Innovation?

Can you define innovation in 5 words or less? Can you name the 3 basic categories of innovation or the 12 components of any business innovation? In this post, all becomes clear.

Intrapreneurship Requires Trust. Are You Worthy?

Two questions every intrapreneur should ponder before asking their boss to back a project.

Seeing the World Through Your CEO's Eyes

To succeed as an intrapreneur, you need to learn to see the world through the eyes of your CEO.

12 Questions Every Business Idea Must Answer

What is a business idea? The question sounds straight forward enough, yet it’s surprisingly hard to answer.

Innovation Habit #2: Start With Problems, Not Ideas

What real innovators value are problems. Big, important, clearly articulated problems.

Innovation Habit #1: Put It On the Calendar

The striking difference between the successful innovator and the wannabe is that the innovator does something whereas the wannabe most often does nothing.

A Beginner's Guide to Innovation

The goal of innovation is to create value for one or more of your organization's stakeholders by changing one or more of the components of your organization.

How Innovative Companies Get Organized to Innovate

In this blog, we are going to quickly list out and define some key team roles and show you how they interact throughout the innovation program.

Getting Ready to Innovate: How to Define Your Innovation Priorities

When it comes to innovation, you might feel a little like a mosquito in a nudist colony - you know what you’re here for, but where do you begin?

How Innovative Companies Make Time for Innovation: A Review of Best Practices

The #1 barrier to new product innovation according to most CEOs is a simple lack of time. In this post we examine the three techniques that innovative small and medium-sized companies use to beat the clock without breaking the bank.