Business Models
Bringing Open Innovation to Services
Companies should organize their service innovation processes to be more open to external ideas.
Innovation Process
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Innovation Strategy
The 5 Myths of Innovation
Increasingly, innovation is being applied to the development of new service offerings, business models, pricing plans and management practices.
IT Governance & Leadership
The 4 Ways IT Is Revolutionizing Innovation
The rising data flood and emerging tools for analyzing it are changing the ways innovation gets done.
Collaboration
The Practice of Global Product Development
This article presents frameworks for companies considering a shift to global product development.
Collaboration
How to Manage Outside Innovation
Should external innovators be organized in collaborative communities or competitive markets? The answer depends on three crucial issues.
Quality & Service
Designing Waits That Work
Designers at restaurants and theme parks are leading the way in thinking about how to make waiting in line more pleasant.
Global Strategy
Innovation From the Inside Out
Grameen Bank and others know that you get the best answers by burying yourself in the questions.
Innovation Strategy
Toyota’s Secret: The A3 Report
How does Toyota solve problems, create plans, and get new things done? Company managers credit a tool called the A3.
Innovation Strategy
Seeking innovation? Look in new places.
To generate innovative ideas, companies need to look beyond the familiar.
Climate Change
A New Way to Collaborate
Researchers hope a new Web-based platform will enable better deliberation on complex problems.
Innovation Strategy
Breakthroughs and the ‘Long Tail’ of Innovation
To understand how breakthroughs in creativity occur, managers must understand how most collaborations work.
Technology Implementation
In Search of the Next “Killer App”
We can no longer envision the future by extrapolating the present.
New Product Development
Does Knowledge Sharing Pay Off?
Some techniques seem to drive new product development better than others.