Next month, I will return to Thunderbird University to be a finals judge for the Innovation Challenge, hosted by Anil Rathi and Idea Crossing. In this competition, MBA students from 20 companies solve problems of real companies. This is what I like about the competion. Competitors aren’t piecing together some fictional business plan; they work on real innovation problems assigned to them by the sponsors of the competition.

I gave some advice for writing a plan in today’s blog entries.