Photos by Emma Highfill, Rose Wheat Photography
Successful business innovation means more than coming up with new product ideas; it requires finding new revenue opportunities, optimizing existing operations and empowering employees to insert their own creative ideas into the decision making process.
Innovating Creativity
Advisor’s Excel
Advisors Excel employees consider nonprofit challenges as an opportunity to practice tips garnered from creative professionals.
Innovating Vision
Arts & Craftsman Workshop
David and Deborah Corr opened the Arts & Craftsman Workshop in May 2019 as a makerspace for individuals wanting to pursue creativity.
Innovating Technology
Chocolatey Software Inc.
A sweet technology for managing software delivery for Microsoft Windows began in Topeka and is now being used worldwide. (Read More)
Contributing Writer
Kim Gronniger is corporate communications manager for Security Benefit and a freelance writer. She writes articles for TK Business Magazine, Wichita Business Magazine and the Journal, a publication of the Kansas Leadership Center. She loves interviewing entrepreneurs, innovators, advocates, artists, hobby enthusiasts and others who are doing interesting things in Topeka and other parts of the state. She enjoys quirky shops and eclectic eateries discovered during capital city explorations and Midwest road trips with her family.
