
A strong innovation culture fuels creativity, collaboration, and adaptability—helping businesses stay ahead of market shifts, attract top talent, and drive sustainable growth.

Edwin Goutier

Learn how to intentionally design a workplace where innovation thrives through strategy, collaboration, and a culture that embraces creativity and change.

Edwin Goutier

Struggling to turn your team’s brilliant brainstorm into real results? Learn actionable strategies for innovation leaders to prioritize ideas, assign ownership, and avoid the pitfalls of “innovation theater” so that every brainstorming session leads to meaningful progress.

Edwin Goutier

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.

Edwin Goutier

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

Edwin Goutier

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

Edwin Goutier

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.

Edwin Goutier

In-context innovation guidance

Mannie Schumpert

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.

Gray Somerville

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

Gray Somerville


Gray Somerville

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.

Gray Somerville

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.?

Gray Somerville

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.”

Gray Somerville

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.

Gray Somerville

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 ….”

Gray Somerville

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.

Gray Somerville

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.

Gray Somerville

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

Gray Somerville

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

Gray Somerville

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

Gray Somerville

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.

Gray Somerville

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

Gray Somerville

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

Gray Somerville

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

Gray Somerville

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

Gray Somerville

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

Gray Somerville

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.

Gray Somerville

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.

Gray Somerville

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?

Gray Somerville

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.

Gray Somerville