What is one of the most frequent points of feedback that leaders receive from innovation teams? “We don’t have enough budget, people and/or time.” Yet, organizations, even the multibillion-dollar ...

When Marissa Mayer, now CEO of Yahoo, joined Google in 1999 as its 20th employee, she had an important question for the company’s co-founder, Larry Page. Why, she asked, was the design of Google so ...

Changes in business and economic conditions place constraints on small-business owners and managers. Globalization means that economic problems in one country or region can spread quickly to other ...

A constraint limits or holds back the possible success of an operational strategy. The theory of constraints, an organizational change method focused on process improvement, contends that every ...

Imagine being tasked with creating something new and having the world at your disposal. You can invent whatever you want, made from any material you choose, in any color, size or shape you’d like.

Thinking outside of the box may have become a cliché, but that’s because we’ve forgotten what it really signifies. Take a moment to visualize it. Can you see the box? It is defined, it provides ...

Guest post by Paul Jun. If you were designing a race car, how would you do it? Make it go faster, you would tell yourself. Just beat everyone as fast as possible. Building a faster car is a typical ...

Design culture loves the fantasy of “blue sky” thinking. No constraints. No limits. Pure imagination. It sounds liberating, but it often produces design that only works in ideal conditions for an ...