Poor communication could be costing businesses in the U.S. as much as $1.2 trillion per year.

How’s that for a stat?

Earlier this year, a poll revealed 76% of business leaders agree their team spends too much time and energy resolving miscommunications.

That calculates to an average of 7.47 hours per week lost to poor communication. A whole day!

In a world of unprecedented disruption, when you’re facing barriers in your efforts to justify new ideas, Innovation Storytelling is a proven and effective method to eliminating miscommunication and building consensus. Doing that amid a hybrid workplace, employee churn, and a seemingly endless number of channels – from slack to email to Instagram – is no easy feat.

Want to learn more? Let’s connect on a call, and I’ll talk you through what this looks like in practice – no sales pitch. No obligation. Just the two of us – figuring out how we can save your organization hours and hours of time each week.

Schedule your call with me today >>

Meanwhile, we’ve had some excellent guests on the podcast recently.

In episode 64, Michelle Shogren, the former Senior Director of Innovation Pharma R&D at Bayer and founder of Innovate In What You Do! LLC., joins me to discuss how COVID served as a catalyst for change across the pharmaceutical industry. We also talk about functional fixedness and how this cognitive bias can prevent a person, or even an entire team, from exploring opportunities outside of their traditional mindset.

And in episode 65, Laura Blumenschein, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University and one of MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 list for AI and robots, joins me to share her insights on working with innovation teams, and how looking to plants helped inform how they created more robust and adaptable robots that will pave the way for more seamless human-robot interaction.

Want to talk about appearing as my guest on the podcast? Let’s connect on a call.

Schedule yours with me today >>


– Susan.

This Week’s Best Articles on Innovation

Bridging The Gap Between Innovation & IT: Low Code Helps Accelerate Innovation And Cultural Change – FORBES


How The Defense Department Is Pursuing A Culture of Innovation – Brookings

How Software Is Stifling Innovation & Slowing Innovation – NYT


The Importance of The Human Journey In Innovation – Sifted

What Makes Innovation Partnerships Succeed? – HBR

U.S Innovation Bill Clears Major Senate Hurdle With Research Provisions Intact – Science