Disruption
Clay Christensen Asks: How Will You Measure Your Life?
“Our careers provide the most very tangible, immediate achievement,” says the Harvard Business School professor. But they’re only a piece of the life puzzle.
Innovation
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Collaboration
How to Create Productive Partnerships With Universities
Companies can improve collaborations with universities by giving more thought to relationship structure.
Innovation Strategy
What It Takes to Be a Serial Innovator
An intriguing new book discusses the traits of serial innovators at established companies.
Culture
How to Become a Sustainable Company
How do companies create the conditions that embed sustainability in strategy and operations?
Stanford’s Tina Seelig on Creativity: “Everything You See is Ripe for Innovation”
“Mastering the ability to reframe problems is an important tool for increasing your imagination” writes Stanford’s Tina Seelig.
New Product Development
The Problem With Digital Design
Using digital design in product development has potential downsides as well as advantages.
Innovation Strategy
Why Innovations Are Arguments
Too many executives confuse what an innovation is with what an innovation would do for them if they had one.
Innovation Strategy
Collaborating With Customer Communities: Lessons From the Lego Group
For the Lego Group, a close bond with user communities is not a pipe dream but a reality.
Business Models
Creating Value Through Business Model Innovation
Here are six questions for executives to consider when thinking about business model innovation.
The Case for Standard Measures of Patent Quality
The current approach to measuring patent quality is not serving the world’s patent systems.
Talent Management
Employee Profiling That Works: How IDEO Uncovers Hidden Talent
Global design firm IDEO develops rich profiles of employee capabilities and shares them across the organization.
Innovation Strategy
Is There a Tweaker Driving Innovation On Your Team?
Innovation often comes from tweakers who take existing ideas and turn them into something better.
Business Models
How to Identify New Business Models
Another method to pursue growth: Use thought experiments to assess new business model possibilities.
Innovation Strategy
How to Network Your Way to New Product Ideas
What if traditional views of the innovation process are flawed? Thoughts from MIT’s Eric von Hippel.
Business Models
A Question Every Manager Should Ask (Hint: It Has to Do With Megatrends)
The single best question companies should ask themselves is what megatrends are coming around the corner.