There are very few stealth, sustainable competitive advantages a company can have in its innovation program, but collaboration is one of those potential advantages. Learn how you can develop this powerful competitive advantage in your business.

People over the age of 50 represent a global population about equal to the population of China, which makes them a huge potential target audience. Add to that that people over 50 have 70% of the assets in the United States, and they become a rich target audience. Learn what it takes to successfully innovate for this group

The fast food industry has not always been the most innovative industry, but Taco Bell is setting a new standard for broad-based successful innovation. Learn how they are using multiple types of innovation to revitalize this strong brand.

Just when you thought shipping something might not get dramatically easier because of companies like UPS and FedEx, a new startup is reinventing shipping. Their very innovative approach has lessons for virtually every kind of innovation you may be considering.

Each year Fast Company magazine dedicates an issue to the 50 most innovative companies. From these companies, they share the major innovation lessons. I have selected the lessons that I believe can be most helpful to you.

These are two words that you probably did not expect to see in combination. This episode previews a major, breakthrough innovation that Gatorade will be introducing in 2016. It is a great example of personalizing a product by creating an exceptionally easy and powerful system.

The insights from this Harvard Business Review article about how to create an innovative company culture are some of the best I have ever read. These insights can help virtually any company become more effective with their innovation program.

Major, disruptive innovations can do more than disrupt the competition – they can disrupt your company. The advice from this Harvard Business Review article updates best practices on how companies can create disruptive innovations of their own and how to be proactive about the challenges many of these innovations present to the overall enterprise.

While there are several versions of adaptive innovation, at its heart it is a very powerful innovation process. It creates cycles of creating and learning that can both increase the speed and quality of your innovative efforts.

Historically China has been one of the most innovative countries ever. More recently it has struggled but as this Harvard Business Review article points out, China probably has a brighter innovation future.