Author Archives: Hitendra Patel

About Hitendra Patel

Dr. Hitendra Patel is CEO of the Center for Innovation, Excellence and Leadership (IXL Center), a global innovation consulting company based in Cambridge, MA. He has led innovation transformation initiatives at companies including Hewlett Packard, LG, Cadbury, Verizon, and P&G. He is a Board Director of the Hult Prize, co-founded the Global Innovation Management Institute, and has helped establish certification standards that treat innovation as a management discipline. He has also served as Professor of Growth and Innovation at Hult International Business School.

How Do We Democratize Innovation? Hitendra Patel at TEDxSomerville

Leave a reply

GUEST POST from Dr. Hitendra Patel

When it comes to big breakthrough ideas, Hitendra Patel doesn’t believe in that one “Eureka” moment. He thinks that all of us have the potential to create new, great ideas and the capacity to make it reality one day. So if everyone has the potential to have great ideas, why aren’t we all becoming genius inventors? Hitendra is trying to figure out if some people can connect the dots faster because they have more dots to begin with – and how we can all get more.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://ted.com/tedx

Subscribe to Human-Centered Change & Innovation WeeklySign up here to get Human-Centered Change & Innovation Weekly delivered to your inbox every week.

Action Project Learning Uncovers Innovative Solutions for Nike, GE and other Global Leaders

Leave a reply

GUEST POST from Dr. Hitendra Patel

Each year, the Center for Innovation Excellence and Leadership (IXL Center) partners with the Hult International Business School and its MBA students on ‘real world’ action projects that bring growth potential to companies like Verizon, Nike, GE, Levis, and more. These Hult Innovation Olympics combine real innovation enterprise challenges with international MBA teams who then compete to produce the best innovative solutions in an Apprentice style model.

This 2 minute video features Peter Tippett, VP of Technology Innovation at Verizon Business, who shares his experience from inside the Action Project. The video also highlights students competing to uncover the best innovative ideas.

If you are interested in becoming an Action Project company, or just learn more about the value of the program for your company’s innovation efforts, please contact Bert at bert.fickel@ixl-center.com

In our upcoming Webinar (October 16th, 4pm EST), we will share our lessons learned as well as real world experiences from previous sponsors that have participated in prior Innovation Olympics. What challenges do you need help solving? Why are you not crowdsourcing? Why are you not taking advantage of external resources such as MBA programs to get intelligence, insights and ideas? Please sign up here to learn more.

image credits: hult.edu; ixl-center.com

Subscribe to Human-Centered Change & Innovation WeeklySign up here to get Human-Centered Change & Innovation Weekly delivered to your inbox every week.