Before you accept the assignment to help launch an innovation initiative, ponder these five ways to fail forward faster. Your success could depend on it!

Individual creativity, rather than being an innate gift, is more the result of our habits, rituals, and routines. Check out these five personal best practices that top innovators use to keep their Idea Factories churning them out.

PhD candidate and friend of Innovation Resource Consulting Group Tim Michaelis (Center for Innovation Management, North Carolina State University) decided to find out what the biggest companies are doing to train their innovators. He interviewed 40 R&D directors and senior vice presidents. Here’s what he’s learned so far:

The Digital Age is giving us powerful new listening tools, but doesn’t replace the need to mix it up in the customer space. Here’s how great companies do both.

As the rate of change increases, we all need to become trend-trackers to see ahead of the curve. Here’s how to do just that.