Innovation Blog

Going to the Fringe for Innovation

The New York City International Fringe Festival is a massive creativity explosion unique in its scope, variety, unbridled courage, and extreme experimentation in human expression.

An Inside View of a Major FinTech Accelerator

As part of our IID FinTech Radar program, at our recent 6/23 NYC Financial Service Forum hosted by the NASDAQ, we asked Jesse Podell, Managing Director of Startupbootcamp FinTech NYC to share with us

Finding the Nexus Between Investing and Communications

“The paradigm of the client doing business with me on my terms has changed into me, the advisor, doing business with the client on their terms.” Jeremy Floyd, BPV Capital Management

Report From the Front Lines of Innovation

For Institute members and other financial advisor readers who have not attended a global, cross-industry innovation conference, this article will give you an overview and insights from this year’s Front End of Innovation Conference(

Day 2 Comments from Front End of Innovation Conference in Boston

We have the wrong mental model on change. It’s not: analyze –think – change. You cannot motivate people with information. Knowledge is not sufficient to spark change.