Meet the Owner
Charles (Chuck) H. House, CEO
Chuck is a seasoned and distinguished expert of corporate innovation, with decades of experience working with leading companies in the high-tech industry. With nearly 30 years under his belt in engineering research and development at Hewlett-Packard in its heyday, he served as the corporate engineering director for five years.
He also held director positions at Intel, Cogswell Polytechnical College, and Stanford University’s membership research program on media and technology, Media X. Currently, Chuck is a long-serving trustee of the Computer History Museum, executive director for the Novim Group Epiphany Awards, a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Stanford, and co-founder of the Center for the Impact of Technology on Society (CITS) at UCSB. He has served on 25 corporate boards and gave a TED Talk on Innovation & Resilience in 2013. His accomplishments and contributions have earned him numerous awards and recognitions, including HP’s only Medal of Defiance, awarded by David Packard for his “extraordinary contempt and defiance beyond the normal call of engineering duty.” With InnovaScapes Institute, Chuck helps his clients grow and succeed through intrapreneurial innovation.
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History of Our Company
InnovaScapes Institute ignited with Chuck’s conviction that businesses struggle with corporate innovation. He started by designing workshops and seminars to teach principles he learned from his decades of experience working at Hewlett-Packard. In 1991, Chuck published a groundbreaking article (“The Return Map: Tracking Product Teams”) in the Harvard Business Review that presented effectiveness metrics for new product development, providing a way for teams to collaborate and visualize their goals. Since the publication of "The Return Map", Chuck has published many other articles, written several books, and helped dozens of clients discover their intrapreneurial innovation.
Books Written by Chuck House
The HP Phenomenon: Innovation and Business Transformation
Permission Denied: Odyssey of an Intrapreneur
Preserving our Digital Revolution Heritage: If not, who? If not now, when?
April in Paris: Rendezvous With my Mother
A Gentle Philosopher
Reminiscing: Carver Mead and me