Innovation Strategy
Five Steps for Embracing Consumer Innovation
Companies can work with consumer innovators, or “casual entrepreneurs,” by understanding their lead users.
Innovation
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Collaboration
In Praise of Individual Innovators
The Fall 2011 issue of MIT Sloan Management Review delves into innovation, including the intriguing role of individual innovators.
Innovation Strategy
The Age of the Consumer-Innovator
Consumers generate massive amounts of product innovation — which has significant implications for new product development.
Innovation Strategy
The User Innovation Revolution
According to von Hippel, users are often the first source of new products.
Culture
Is Your Company Ready for Open Innovation?
Without successful implementation, the benefits of open innovation strategies will not materialize.
Collaboration
Creating Employee Networks That Deliver Open Innovation
The key to open innovation? Ensuring outside ideas reach the people best equipped to exploit them.
Business Models
How to Innovate When Platforms Won’t Stop Moving
What are the characteristics that can help guide companies through disruptive transitions?
Climate Change
Innovating in Uncertain Markets: 10 Lessons for Green Technologies
Lessons from the successes and failures of many emerging technologies offer a helpful guide in how adoption works.
New Product Development
How Quality Drives the Rise and Fall of High-Tech Products
While network effects do affect market share flows, quality prevails.
Marketing Strategy
Why Every Project Needs a Brand (and How to Create One)
Project leaders should frame projects the same way marketing managers frame branding efforts.
Innovation Strategy
Is Your Company Choosing the Best Innovation Ideas?
Generating good innovation proposals from within the ranks of the organization is only the beginning. The more difficult part is creating a selection process that identifies which ideas to implement.
Innovation Strategy
Why Giving Employees Paid, Unstructured Time Pays Off
Research in creativity shows that giving employees unstructured time — on company time — is a concrete way to reward innovative activity.
Collaboration
Why Project Networks Beat Project Teams
Project networks provide the expertise to handle complex, knowledge-intensive team projects.
Global Strategy
Flat World, Hard Boundaries – How To Lead Across Them
Today’s collaborative and creative leaders engage in six boundary spanning practices.
Project Management
What Great Projects Have in Common
From time to time a project truly stands out, creating exceptional value and having an impact on the industry.