For most of 2025, a team of 25 CNN Underscored writers and editors across seven dedicated teams tested and reviewed thousands of new releases with one goal: to find the most innovative products of the ...

Federal government leaders know that their organizations should always be improving. But today’s multitude of complex and evolving challenges — tighter budgets, shrinking workforces, aging ...

“Innovation,” says Curtis Carlson, former president of Stanford Research Institute (SRI) and author of the classic book, Innovation (Crown, 2006), “is the primary driver of prosperity, job growth, ...

Growth companies that master both continuous improvement and breakthrough innovation outpace those that only optimize. Most businesses get trapped optimizing incremental improvements when what they ...

The Innovation by Design Awards celebrate the people and companies behind some of the world’s best and most thought-provoking design work. This year, Fast Company is recognizing more than 400 projects ...

Almost all companies talk about caring about the consumer experience. I dare you to find a company who doesn’t say this is a priority. But this rarely translates into a truly, consumer-centered design ...

Quick-serve and fast-casual specialist Secret Ingredient Marketing (SIM) announced that it has teamed up with Silicon Valley innovation professional Cliff Jue to expand its insight-based innovation ...

Over the past 20 plus years, many companies looking to catch the spark of Silicon Valley and accelerate their innovation practices have opened “Innovation Hubs”, sponsored “hackathons”, toured the ...

You could say it doesn’t take much to make me happy, because I was thrilled to see TRIZ (the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving), an innovation methodology, featured in an article by BusinessWeek ...