archiveChief Innovation Officer Insider

Is your team smarter than the sum of its parts? In his influential book on organisational learning, The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge noted that you can put together a team of people, each with an IQ of 120, but as a group they may have a collective IQ of 63....

When you know how to do a competitive analysis, you can create a more informed and effective marketing plan. Understanding the different players and its strategies in the industry helps you clearly see the competitive landscape, where your brand can shine, and what you need to do to ranked over...

People who work in sales usually love their job and there is a reason for that. Even though every work has challenges and obstacles that may appear on the way, in some cases the positive things are so crucial that people would not change their jobs for the world. So,...

Public relations (PR) is an important component to any business marketing plan.  Typically, a marketing plan has three parts: marketing, advertising and PR.  All three parts need to have a strategy that complements the other. The purpose of having a public relations plan is it helps you outline the key...

As part of the animal kingdom, we coexist with many other animals. Pets provide us with hearty companionship. Animals in zoos and circuses provide recreation. Several types of animals are reared for their meat, milk, skin, and other commercial products. And others’ existence plays a role in maintaining the ecological...

Manufacturers have always been innovators. They know how to perfect their products, optimize supply chains, and grow relationships with customers. They've developed processes, tools, and strategies over their existence that set them apart from the competition. These strategies have brought them success and made them who they are. But when...

Women’s issues aren’t just for women, they are issues for business, for men and for society, yet the minute they are framed as ‘women’s issues’ or even the more neutral ‘gender’ issues, there is a tendency for whole swathes of people, mostly men, to disengage. They think it’s all over...

Sometimes business and relationships do not work well, and if this happens in family businesses, the experience can be particularly stressful. Some of the most common reasons behind disputes in family businesses are the behavioural challenges of a particular family member and ideological differences between the founders. Whatever may be...

FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss, writes, “Negotiation serves two distinct, vital life functions—information gathering and behavior influencing—and includes almost any interaction where each party wants something from the other side.” He goes on to explain that nearly everything in your life, from career to relationships, depends upon this skill. Negotiation,...

We can quit our jobs or our degrees, but we can’t quit our life purpose. So our real task in life is to discover our unique life purpose. The challenge in finding our purpose is that we are programmed to continually look for the linear and simple answer. But often...