Facilitating Innovation

Groupon's Learnings From Expanding Into China Launched in 2008, Groupon, skyrocketed into the world as a digital marketplace linking customers with local businesses enabling discounted transactions. Expanding from city to city in the United States, by 2010 they had a... READ MORE

Abstract The Problem: Managers ask for innovation yet they struggle in enabling innovation because they excel in creating environments that restrict creative thought Why it Happens: Historical management theory and practice have focused on organizational control which consequently runs counter... READ MORE

Assessment Tips and insights on how to be more innovative are interesting and anecdotal. They are also difficult to put into action that leads to behavior change. Therefore the priority is to understand what the impediments to being creative are... READ MORE

Leading Innovation Instead of attempting to map the architecture of how a dynamic organization operates to gain control. I propose not a different approach, but a different mindset towards leading innovation. This model puts the focus on creating the optimal... READ MORE