“An overwhelming majority of surveyed executives (88%) fear they will not have the necessary talent to lead their innovation programs after the recession ends,” reports Deloitte Consulting in the results of a recent survey of 325 international executives on talent trends and strategies. “Companies may soon find themselves in a fight for talent as the recovery takes hold….To [...]

At the beginning of this year when the markets were not being kind to our financial services clients, we admit we were concerned that the crisis would relegate spending on innovation programs for relatively junior employees to the long list of “necessary” cuts. It didn’t. In fact, our clients have expanded the number of programs [...]

Here’s an interesting juxtaposition of data that suggests why we’re not as creative as we’d like to be.
The New York Times published a fantastic infographic, How Different Groups Spend Their Day, that can keep a data junkie like me entertained for hours. The chart shows the results from the American Time Use Survey that asks [...]

Mike Harris, Chairman of Innovation at RBS lists five things a CEO of a large organization must do to execute on innovation:

Be visibly and vocally behind the innovation agenda
Make a strategic case for innovation
Put an innovation infrastructure in place with processes for education and customer insight
Create an environment that values prototypes and pilots
Establish a innovation [...]

From Springwise.com

Kiva: p2p micro lending: Kiva helps lenders provide (charitable) microloans to entrepreneurs in developing countries, offering a new, sponsor-a-business option for individuals to connect with small enterprises in developing countries through flexible loans. More »
Facilitating kidpreneurs: Dutch Postbank, part of the ING Group, recently started a campaign aimed at budding entrepreneurs. Children who open [...]