Category Archives for "Viewpoints and perspectives on innovation"

Senior citizens have the right stuff Remember as little kids, how we marveled at how smart our parents and grandparents were? Well, it appears that we were right. As the AON Invent team looks back at our first 10 years in business, we made a fascinating discovery. And that was that, senior citizens have the […]

Large brick and mortar retailers, often test new products in ecommerce, creating a symbiotic relationship between Walmart and Amazon.

“Mail” travels at the speed of light these days. Nearly everyone in the developed world has a phone in their pocket. But in many ways, business communication is more awkward and less efficient today, than it was a couple of decades ago… especially in corporate America. Long gone are the days when you could call […]

Most retail pundits assume victory in the chain wars, will be determined by e-com apps and delivery speed. And while making that consumer-to-product connection in the fewest number of keystrokes may be the holy grail of retail tech, often absent in this conversation is any mention of “merchandise.”   So how did this happen? How […]

  While the retail industry has been investing billions to develop technologies to improve the speed and efficiency of customer transactions, AON Invent has been collaborating with every-day consumers and independent inventors on four continents to develop new and innovative products for them to sell. After all, who knows more about the “stuff” people want to buy, […]

What is The Innovation Paradox? Good old Charlie Dickens said it best in his classic novel, A Tale of Two Cities: The growth of eCommerce is creating some of the greatest challenges and opportunities the retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry has ever seen. We call this the innovation paradox. The demand for innovation has never been […]