Culture
How to Become a Sustainable Company
How do companies create the conditions that embed sustainability in strategy and operations?
Innovation Strategy
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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.
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.
Innovation Strategy
Five Steps for Embracing Consumer Innovation
Companies can work with consumer innovators, or “casual entrepreneurs,” by understanding their lead users.
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.
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.
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.
