Innovation starts with the right mindset and is amplified by the right culture, as we discussed in our earlier posts. In this post, we’ll take a look at the third and final driver of innovation: the systems that tie everything together. To quickly review, the right mindset refers to the […]

As we noted in Part I of this series, innovation starts with the right mindset. But an innovation mindset alone is not enough. It must be embodied in and inform another critical driver of innovation: the right culture. As described in our report, The New Product Innovation Paradigm: Evolving Products […]

Our recent report—The New Product Innovation Paradigm: Evolving Products to Platforms in a Changing World—identified the key elements that have enabled companies to innovate in a complex, ever-changing marketplace. In this report, we also spelled out the processes, tools, and marketing strategies critical to sustaining innovation over the long term. […]

The lines and shortages at supermarkets have introduced the challenges of supply chain disruption to virtually everyone. Common household goods many people have taken for granted are now hard to find due to the current COVID-19 pandemic. Panic buying has made it hard to find toilet paper, cleaning supplies, masks, […]

The goal of a supply chain is to deliver the right amount of the right product to the right people using an agile network of partners. The digital supply chain uses data to achieve these goals and overcome today’s challenges. Transforming your supply chain to digital gives you a competitive […]

Innovation has always been tough. Even in normal times, leading-edge companies put in endless hours searching for new approaches that will solve customer problems and disrupt markets. They engage in a continuous process of rapid design, development, testing, and iteration to create new and better products. In the quickly changing […]

As of this writing, more than 16,230 deaths worldwide have been attributed to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). [1] Because social distancing1 is the most effective way to slow the transmission of COVID-19, U.S. companies began to send their employees home to work in mid-February. Today, with “shelter in place” orders […]

Navitas Systems is a cleantech innovator engaged in designing, developing, and manufacturing advanced lithium cells and energy storage products and systems for commercial and U.S. government customers.  Navitas is unique in that they have the capabilities to do their own research and development of new battery chemistries. They have strategic […]