Fast Company: When did you first realize you had an interest in design? Sola Biu: When I first started designing, I didn’t recognize that it was design. This aligns with my view on how a lot of people ...

In my consulting practice, innovation challenges that dogged teams having very good and experienced engineers for months or even years were resolved in a matter of days or hours. It was not magic; we ...

Over the last couple of years, design thinking has become one of the most common innovation buzzwords, and therefore, has become seen as a panacea to "doing" innovation. The reality, though, is far ...

Kick off the second annual Innovation Week with a keynote presentation by MIT Professor Vladimir Bulović and the honoring of Case Western Reserve University’s Faculty Distinguished Research Awards.

Too many companies launch new products or services without a process for deeply understanding what their customers truly need. They make assumptions, rely on limited feedback, or develop ideas based ...

Benjamin Hohmuth, MD, chief medical informatics officer at Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Health System, sees innovation as new ways to tackle relevant problems rather than an opportunity to deploy new ...

In 1970, when the Apollo 13 mission pilot said, "Houston, we've had a problem," he was asking NASA's Johnson Space Center for help. Fast forward four decades to 2010, and the Johnson Space Center was ...

If you try to solve a long-term problem with an immediate, short-term solution, the problem will continue to present itself until you fix the core issue. Relax your assumptions to boost creativity.

FORT STEWART — Sgt. 1st Class Nathan Lopez enlisted in the U.S. Army as a wide-eyed 17-year-old straight out of high school. An infantryman for nearly half his life now, he’s comfortable with a ...

One of the best innovation stories I’ve ever heard came to me from a senior executive at a leading tech firm. Apparently, his company had won a million-dollar contract to design a sensor that could ...