Making Innovation Happen
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 10:40AM 
Sheikha Al Mayassa, a patron of artists, storytellers and filmmakers in Qatar, talks about how art and culture create a country's identity -- and allow every country to share its unique identity with the wider world. As she says: "We don't want to be all the same, but we do want to understand each other."
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 10:46PM With the by-line that the Henry Ford has been collecting stories of American innovation from 1929, the Detroit museum the Henry Ford, has assembled a comprehensive video library on innovation that is worth visiting.
The following video traces the role of innovation in auto-racing and is an example of the quality of the innovation stories you will find at their new site OnInnovation - Advancing the Culture of Innovation.
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 09:15PM Since the mid-1960s, John Brockman has been at the cutting edge of ideas. Here, John Naughton introduces a passionate advocate of both science and the arts, whose website, Edge, is a salon for the world’s finest minds. In the attached article, he discusses Marshall McLuhan, elitism and the future of the internet
Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 02:02PM Even in this unprecedented business environment, great leaders know they should invest in their people. Those companies who are committed to a strong workplace culture tend to perform well, and now they are featured prominently in a new ranking recently released by Great Place to Work Institute. Among the top performers on the 2011 World's Best Multinational Companies list are culturally-strong technology companies such as Microsoft, NetApp, SAS, and Google. But is there a direct correlation between employee investment and the balance sheet? As Prof. James L. Heskett wrote in his latest book The Culture Cycle, effective culture can account for 20-30 percent of the differential in corporate performance when compared with "culturally unremarkable" competitors.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 10:27AM Booz & Company’s annual study shows that spending more on R&D won’t drive results. The most crucial factors are strategic alignment and a culture that supports innovation.
