Over the past decade, Design Thinking has gained popularity across many businesses as an effective method to generate innovation. It’s rise is absolutely with merit. Having worked on innovation initiatives for companies like GE Healthcare, Nike and Procter & Gamble, our teams consistently utilized these principles for predictive, scalable and award-winning results. It’s transformational power rests in its simplicity and [...]
Press Release: WASHINGTON DC -Innovation Excellence, together with Kevin Riley & Associates and Batterii, announced today that they have entered into agreements to collaborate on the formation of modelH, the Health Model Co-Creation Forum, a yearlong project focused on systematically engaging with the healthcare community on a shared platform to co-create dynamic new business models, powered by Batterii. [...]
Just over one year ago today, Batterii received some great news. The software we had been developing and testing with a handful of global companies was about to take another giant step forward. Through an investment by CincyTech and private investors, Batterii’s original team was about to expand to engineering, product, service, support, sales and me…the [...]
Over the past decade, I’ve been fortunate enough to have worked with some amazing thinkers who challenge traditional business norms. They fuel creativity, disrupt markets, and invent futuristic products. They go off into a cave to create new and needed things, yet the power of their impact is at its greatest when sharing with the [...]
You might not know it, but there is a new skill set that we can all add to our resumes … Content Curator. We are willing to bet that you either posted, liked or shared something online today. Think about it; between Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Tumblr and LinkedIn, we’re seeing new information every hour of [...]
While it’s commonly understood that the consumer experience is very important (possibly critical) for business success, a majority of companies continue to fall short in consumer research. Forrester Research had a telling piece that explored this idea, called Mapping the Customer Journey {READ HERE}. A Couple of Highlights Companies lack a good perspective on [...]
People are collaborative by nature. We like to work in groups, or, at the very least, we like sourcing each other for opinions and ideas. Chris Hoppe, Senior Concept Engineer at Milwaukee Electric Tool, shared some of his thoughts on collaboration and Coolhunting in a recent interview with the Batterii team. According to Hoppe, Coolhunting [...]
Batterii’s success is due in part to our very generous and knowledgeable investment partner, CincyTech. Their dedication to coaching and supporting entrepreneurs has helped to not only make Batterii thrive, but also many other business ventures in the Cincinnati area, as detailed below. We want to send a special thank you to CincyTech for including Chad [...]
Far too often I’m asked a question that I can never fully answer, how did I come up with that? To be honest, the answer is really pretty simple … I use Coolhunting. Have you ever seen an interesting boutique store, or met someone with a really unique style and thought to yourself, wow that’s [...]
Coolhunting is a topic that we talk about a lot at Batterii, and we are about to spend the next couple of blogs breaking down why and how this trend in idea-sourcing will change the way we work. In our experience, most creative people take part in Coolhunting everyday, and may not even know it, [...]