Written by Janice Francisco I recently attended an Intrapreneurship Conference that provided a forum for intrapreneurs to share their experiences about how to improve innovation. I was surprised at...

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

What does innovation mean in business when told through the lens of A Christmas Carol?

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,...

Written by Janice Francisco, CEO, Principal Consultant, BridgePoint Effect If you're wondering what kind of organizational culture supports innovation this blog outlines the defining features of a...

  To answer the question, why is innovation important for society, I'm going to take you on a Thanksgiving-themed innovation journey that shows some love and appreciation for Canadian Innovators. 

Written by: Janice Francisco, Founder, BridgePoint Effect Globally, leaders typically rank “innovation” as one of their top three organizational strategies, and in Canada, our leaders rank innovation...

The Conference Board of Canada defines innovation as a process through which economic or social value is extracted from knowledge—by creating, diffusing, and transforming ideas—to produce new or...

Community meetings are often held to engage community members, hear more voices and get more viewpoints. The question is, how to facilitate a community meeting so that these goals are achieved?

How to Generate Innovative Ideas: Guest post by Helen Cahen

How to Encourage Innovation in a Team, by Janice Francisco

As we’ve had a number of inquiries about our Taking the Risk Out of Innovation course, we made a short video that shows the course content and experience, and we filmed the video from a participant’s...

  How you develop innovative thinking skills is closely related to how you tap your creativity. In this blog we've pulled together a reading list to help you get started. The list was built through...

Innovation Skills for Your Team When I was completing my Masters of Science in Creativity and Change Leadership, we had to take a course in Scientific Measures. This course was designed to help us...

In October 2017, in my capacity as Chair to the Conference Board of Canada Council on Innovation and Commercialization, I participated in a Council meeting held in Montreal. During this meeting we...

As I mentioned in my last blog post, earlier in November I spent three days at the Intrapreneurship Conference in Toronto. The line-up of speakers on Day One included CEOs Larry Keeley of Doblin...

You may or may not be familiar with the term “intrapreneurship.” If you are, congratulations! If you aren’t—and especially if you work in an organization that isn’t a start-up—then it’s time to get...

“[FourSight is] a great tool for driving change where you need people to collaborate and get comfortable with the change—they become part of the solution.” BridgePoint Effect has been working with a...

Would you say your organization is innovative? Maybe? Or maybe not. What if I asked the question this way: Would you say that innovation and being more innovative are part of your organization’s...

Is collaboration dressed up as consensus in your organization? Is it making your innovation efforts a bit scary? Are you spooked when it comes to decision-making? Using these tricks will make...