Andrea Meyer
Andrea Meyer
Author of more than 450 company case studies and contributor to 34 books, Andrea Meyer creates custom content for online & print publications. Andrea writes & ghostwrites books, blogs, white papers, conference reports, success profiles, interactive workbooks, articles, executive education and eLearning content. Clients include Prentice Hall, McGraw-Hill, Cengage Learning, MIT, Harvard, McKinsey & Co, YPO, Wharton, OECD. Andrea has conducted case studies in Asia, South America & Europe; is a Certified Online Instructor; is a member of MENSA, Twitter elite, and is listed in Who's Who in America.
Mayo Clinic’s Collaborative Innovation Process
Point: Collaboration between doctors, patients, designers and lab technicians brings healthcare delivery breakthroughs. Story: The inspiring origins of the Mayo Clinic illustrate the timelessness of...
Innovation in 3D: Ice Dream #DSCC11
Point: Test large-scale innovations for 1/20th the cost by using 3D simulations to prove viability and performance. Story: Forty years ago, Georges Mougin got an...
Make Your Product a Narrative — #BIF7
Point: Technology and innovation enable greater customer engagement through open-ended customizations, apps, add-on, and social features. Story: At BIF7, John Hagel, author of The...
Breaking the Rules to Create a Bestseller
Point: Rule-breaking products may require business model innovations. Story: At BIF7, Alex Osterwalder told his story of breaking the rules when creating his book, Business...
The Search for Innovations
Point: Use roving cross-functional teams to hunt for promising new product and service ideas. Story:In a world of large organizations and diverse global hotspots...
Frugal Innovation at NASA
Point: Budget constraints demand frugal innovation. Story: In 2005, NASA's Constellation program – tasked with designing a way to get humans to the...
Startup America to Accelerate High-Growth Entrepreneurial Companies
Point: Entrepreneurs in high-growth companies can influence the federal government to increase their company's access to capital, people, and markets. Story: Accelerating high-growth entrepreneurship Background:…
How Open Innovation & Modularity Accelerate Innovation at PsionTeklogix
Point: Use open innovation and modularity to identify new product/service needs and accelerate your pace of innovation Story: Rugged handheld computers are used every day...
How Innovation and IT Drive Productivity
Point: Getting maximum benefit from innovation requires new organizational practices Story: In their book Wired for Innovation, Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders show how innovation...