No one doubts today that innovation is helping learning. This episode focuses on the 10 important ways that current and future innovations are helping to improve the quality of learning ? often dramatic improvements.

A relatively recent innovation best practice is the combination of storytelling and prototyping. Utilizing an iterative cycle of storytelling and prototyping rapidly accelerates learning and getting to a big, successful idea.

This is a very intriguing challenge to the world to meet an obvious major humanity need ? affordable, quality housing for people at the bottom of the economic ladder around the world. In this Harvard Business Review article we learn the process and criteria that can produce a winning innovative solution.

These insights are drawn from a Harvard Business Review article on the transformation of P&G's innovation culture and capabilities. Their shift from a 100% internal innovation effort to the major inclusion of external innovation resources has created major innovation success for this leading consumer products company.

Starting with the end in mind is critical to innovation success. Starting with an audacious innovation vision is critical to dramatically increasing your innovation success rate. Learn from two sources how to create an audacious innovation vision, including a Harvard Business Review article.

While today we celebrate companies like Apple as the pinnacle of successful innovators, a strong case can be made that over the last few decades IBM has been the most innovatively successful company. Learn how the company has continuously reinvented itself in stunningly major and successful ways.

The insights from this Harvard Business Review article are an excellent case study of how Henry Ford made the Model T so successful, only to find out that what made it successful eventually led to major business losses. Also learn the pioneering role that General Motors played in bringing a higher level of innovation, especially customer innovation to the automobile business.

The Consumer Electronic Show/CES is one of the most important innovation shows of the year. This episode shares the most innovative and potentially successful new innovations shown at this very important trade show.

A Whole New Mind is a compelling book providing insights into current trends and where the future of innovation is going. The good news is that we are moving from the information age to the conceptual age. What comes with this is a whole new set of major right brain capabilities. Make sure your enterprise is on the cutting edge of a major evolutionary trend.

Beyond a doubt corporations go through a lifecycle starting at birth and, for the majority of companies, eventually going out of business. The role and need for innovation changes at each stage of a lifecycle. This episode will help you determine where you are in the lifecycle and the role innovation needs to play.