by Steve Liguori | Jul 7, 2016 | News & Media
Today I’m sharing a Network World story about how Cisco awakened its inner startup culture through the Cisco Innovate Everywhere Challenge. The Challenge was the company’s first-ever internal innovation competition, designed to spur corporate entrepreneurs...
by Steve Liguori | Jul 1, 2016 | News & Media
The following is an article excerpt… By Liz Stinson Last year, the aviation engineers at General Electric found themselves with a jet engine bracket problem. At 4.48 pounds each, the brackets, little pieces of metal that support engine components, were weighing...
by Steve Liguori | Jun 28, 2016 | News & Media
Cisco recently ran an internal innovation challenge for employees — its first ever. I was honored to work on the program as an entrepreneurial coach with Alex Gorbachev, Cisco’s innovation director. We learned a lot about how to stoke up thousands of...
by Steve Liguori | Jun 21, 2016 | News & Media
I served as an entrepreneurial coach for the recent Cisco Innovate Everywhere Challenge, which sparked ideas from more than 2,000 internal innovators around the world. As Cisco Innovation Director Alex Goryachev told Innovation Leader, “We’re an amazing company with...
by Steve Liguori | Feb 16, 2016 | News & Media
Every year PwC polls CEOs across the globe on challenges and issues facing business, and every year the survey results have a common theme: innovation is both a disruptor and a transformer. PwC agrees. Executives who foster innovation can help their companies find...
by Steve Liguori | Dec 12, 2015 | News & Media
What is the role that corporate marketing should play in the innovation process? In short, that role is much bigger than the role most marketers are playing today. In this Frost & Sullivan article, GE Director of Global Innovation Steve Liguori discusses the much...