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How to Innovate Your Innovation

Inc.

Looks to me like the curtain on the innovation theater is about to come down. At 1871, the Chicago incubator I ran, we called the constant parade of well-intentioned but largely clueless visitors and the accompanying startup charade the "entrepreneurial petting zoo". The visitors' vain hopes were that, in the course of viewing such a serious...

Innovation Unleashed: Building a culture that drives sustained growth

by Multiple Authors | January 20, 2022 | Featured | 0 Comments

2-MINUTE READ In brief Building and maintaining an innovation culture is crucial but often elusive. 63% of executives surveyed agreed that building...

Activating an Innovation Culture

by Maxx Mainzer | July 19, 2018 | Lifting People Up | 0 Comments

What does it mean to have an “Innovation Culture?” For some, it can mean open floor plans and shared desk spaces, beer in the fridge and casual...

Don’t Build an Innovation Room – Build an Innovation Culture

by Maxx Mainzer | July 12, 2018 | Lifting People Up | 0 Comments

There is a recent trend among organizations that are trying to establish themselves as innovative companies. Over the years of touring office spaces...

Helping Others Find Their Voice

by Maxx Mainzer | July 3, 2018 | Lifting People Up | 0 Comments

Fostering growth in your employees and encouraging them to speak up and find their voice is key to cultivating a community of problem solvers....

Peopleship: The New Culture Model

by Maxx Mainzer | July 3, 2018 | Lifting People Up | 0 Comments

The problem with the word “leadership” is that it focuses on the top. It paints a picture of the top brass pulling strings and making things happen...

Why Chicago doesn’t need to emulate Silicon Valley

by Maxx Mainzer | March 22, 2018 | Thought Leadership | 0 Comments

I've been involved in efforts to help build Chicago's innovation ecosystem for more than two decades, but I always welcome an outside perspective...

Motorola deal will give Lenovo a major turnaround project

by zakkates | Aug 13, 2014 | Thought Leadership

Executives at China-based tech giant Lenovo face a major turnaround project with their $2.9 billion acquisition of Google's Motorola Mobility. The...

Chicago innovation’s band leader: Tom Kuczmarski

by zakkates | Aug 12, 2014 | Thought Leadership

Read entire article here Born, raised and educated on the East Coast, Tom Kuczmarski arrived in Chicago with a two-years-and-out plan. That was 36...

TEACH, CONSULT, INNOVATE, SLEEP, AND REPEAT.

by zakkates | Aug 11, 2014 | Thought Leadership

Read entire article here The Life of Tom Kuczmarski and the Creation of the Chicago Innovation Awards’, ‘ Tom Kuczmarski spends every waking...

Innovation Always Trumps Invention

by zakkates | Aug 10, 2014 | Thought Leadership

Read the entire article here Invention is often viewed as a source of economic growth. It isn't. It's innovation that generates new products, new...

Oil and Innovation

by zakkates | Aug 9, 2014 | Thought Leadership

Read entire article here It took a sophisticated 75-ton piece of equipment and more than 80 days, but it appears the Gulf oil gusher has been...

Interview with Tom Kuczmarski, co-founder of the Chicago Innovation Awards

by zakkates | Aug 8, 2014 | Thought Leadership

Read the entire article here Cristian: Hi Thomas, Welcome to Entrepreneurship Interviews. Tell us a bit about yourself. Tom: I am a senior partner...

President Obama, Father-in-Chief?

by zakkates | Aug 7, 2014 | Thought Leadership

Read entire article here When President Obama leaves a meeting to attend one of his daughters' soccer games, is he setting a good example for his...

Remanufacturing America’s Factory Sector

by zakkates | Aug 6, 2014 | Thought Leadership

Read entire article here Ron Bloom could not have picked a better time to start his work as President Barack Obama's point man on manufacturing...

Chicago Innovation Awards: A Role Model

by zakkates | Aug 5, 2014 | Thought Leadership

Read the entire article here Eight years ago a close colleague and I launched the Chicago Innovation Awards to promote in the Midwest. Since then, I...