Innovation Success Formula = Strategy + Marketing + Scale

Today was the final day of The 2016 OPEN MINDS Strategy & Innovation Institute in New Orleans – and what a week it has been! After three days with executives from across the country sharing their innovation successes and frustrations, I walked away with some critical insights on the keys to making innovation a success – and summarized those in my closing plenary session this afternoon, Is Your Organization Innovation-Ready? How To Transform Innovation Into Strategic Advantage.

There were some specific issues that caught my attention. First, data is essential not only to managing pay-for-value contracts, but in getting . . .