The strategic imperative has been communicated and a team is formed but progress is slow to non-existent. What’s the matter? Everyone inside and outside the team agrees something must be done, so why is it starting to feel like the problem is too big for us? It seems like personal agendas are getting in the way. It’s not clear […]
Beyond Problem Solving to Value Creation: Teaching Innovation and Entrepreneurship in an Academic Environment
As an engineering educator at Rose-Hulman where our main focus is on undergraduate education, one of our priorities is to prepare our graduates to be immediate contributors in the workplace upon graduation and to be prepared for success over their careers as technical professionals. The placement rate for Rose-Hulman approaches 100 percent each year with […]
Executing on Innovation within the Matrix
In an earlier blog post, Cory Hixson referenced an interesting book on executing innovation entitled Beyond the Idea, which discusses different types of innovation projects within larger organizations. While the book provides a good macro perspective on how innovation works in a larger company, implementation of an innovation effort of any reasonable size within a matrixed […]
Fixed and Growth Mindsets
A few years ago I was introduced to and read thoroughly about a concept called mindset. Before my foray into the literature pertaining to mindset, I had heard many people use the term. Reflecting on its use in my past, mindset takes me back to my days of playing sports; figuring out ways to enter the […]