I’m often asked how to innovate in business.  

  I’m often engaged in conversations with business leaders focused around “why is innovation important to the growth of organizations?”

"Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of the things that May be only?"             - Scrooge to the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (A Christmas Carol by Charles...

To answer the question, what is value innovation, I'd like to tell you a story.

The Challenge:  How to gather input quickly from multiple stakeholders Executive leaders representing the aerospace and aviation industry, as well as representatives from government and academia,...

In this blog post we examine various aspects of how to facilitate effective meetings. It’s a topic clients ask us about a lot.  But why?

The kind of organizational culture that supports innovation is a “culture of innovation.” What are the defining features of a culture of innovation?

The question of how to bring innovation to a company is certainly something I've spent a lot of time researching over the past 15 years. In our most recent research with partners FourSight, and...

In this article I focus on firm-level metrics, that is, how organizations measure innovation. If you’re interested in how to measure innovation at the country level, please see our blog about the...

This article was originally published on the Innov8rs blog, October 14, 2018. The research focused on in this article will be released at the Innov8rs Miami conference, February 20-21, 2019. What...

A common misconception about innovation is that it’s all about technology; it’s not.  So, if your job doesn’t have you occupied with developing or implementing the latest and greatest in bleeding...

We're poking fun at scary meetings. As an extra treat, we’re sharing some tricks of the trade on how to facilitate a meeting that drives greater value from the time you ask people to spend in...

As an adult educator and organizational development/change consultant with a Master’s of Science in Creativity and Change Leadership, I’m fascinated by how people in organizations learn to be more...

  I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, it represents a shift in seasons, the inevitable coming of winter, and a glorious display of the artistry of nature as green leaves turn brilliant colours. For me,...

By Janice Francisco, CEO, Principal Innovation Consultant, Facilitator and Coach, BridgePoint Effect, Advisor to the Conference Board of Canada’s Council on Commercialization and Innovation, and...

By Janice Francisco, CEO, Principal Innovation Consultant, Facilitator and Coach, BridgePoint Effect

By Janice Francisco, CEO, Principal Innovation Consultant, Facilitator and Coach, BridgePoint Effect

Globally, leaders typically rank “innovation” as one of their top three organizational strategies, and in Canada, our leaders rank innovation fourth or fifth. And while innovation makes it to the...