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Creating Regional Wealth in the Innovation Economy: Models, Perspectives, and Best Practices
Author Dr. Daniel Rouach , Jeff Saperstein
Drawing on extensive new research through dozens of interviews with entrepreneurial champions in diverse sectors, Creating Regional Wealth in the Global Innovation Economy pinpoints the key reasons why some locations succeed in the quest to become centers of technol....
Release Date 2002/06 -
Author Jeffrey D. Wager , J. Donald deBethizy , Michael D. Lord
Innovation is more urgently necessary than it's ever been. Now, three leading experts on commercializing innovation systematically sort through the wreckage of yesterday's strategies, learning lessons and identifying ideas worth preserving and adapting. To prepare....
Release Date 2005/02 -
Why Learning Is Central to Sustained Innovation
Author Peter T. Ward , Rachna Shah , Toni L. Doolen , Philipp Mayrl , Anja Schulze , Udo Lin
Managers often say they want to improve their product development capability based on so-called “lean” principles and practices so they can innovate while reducing costs and improving quality. In studying manufacturing over the past two decades, the aut....
Release Date 2016/04 -
The Hard Truth About Business Model Innovation
Author Emily Snyder , Derek van Bever , Thomas Bartman , Clayton M. Christensen
“The landscape of failed attempts at business model innovation is crowded -- and becoming more so,” observe authors Clayton M. Christensen, Thomas Bartman, and Derek van Bever. In order to change this, the authors argue, executives need to understand th....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Competing Through Joint Innovation
Author Manuel Hensmans
Emerging markets such as China and India have become the growth drivers of corporate research and development initiatives from all around the world. Although there is growing evidence that Chinese companies are shifting their innovation focus from cost saving to kn....
Release Date 2016/01 -
Mastering the Digital Innovation Challenge
Author Gerald C. Kane , Rikard Lindgren , Lars Mathiassen , Fredrik Svahn
For Volvo Cars, pursuing digital innovation required fundamentally rethinking the organization, while also keeping the core business functioning efficiently. The company did so by balancing four interrelated competing concerns: (1) new and established innovation ca....
Release Date 2017/04 -
Developing Innovative Solutions Through Internal Crowdsourcing
Author Sean Looram , Lâle Kesebi , Ann Majchrzak , Arvind Malhotra
As organizations search for better solutions to their everyday problems, many are encouraging employees to use their experiences to develop new ideas and play a more active role in the innovation process. Companies including AT&T Inc., Google Inc., and Deutsche Tel....
Release Date 2017/07 -
How to Catalyze Innovation in Your Organization
Author Mary Uhl-Bien , Jonathan Sims , Michael Arena , Rob Cross
While technology giants such as Alphabet Inc., Apple Inc., and Facebook Inc. are lionized for their innovative cultures, other industries struggle with hierarchal organizations that make consistent organic innovation very difficult. Companies try to address this by....
Release Date 2017/07 -
Creating Better Innovation Measurement Practices
Author Pamela Lirio , Marie-Cécile Cervellon , Iyad Rahwan , Manuel Cebrian , Alpheus Bingh
At most companies, innovation is a top managerial priority. Many managers look at successful innovators such as Apple Inc. and Google Inc. with envy, wishing that their companies could be half as innovative. To boost and benchmark innovation, managers often use qua....
Release Date 2017/10 -
Harnessing the Secret Structure of Innovation
Author Johann Harnoss , Ramiro Palma , Thomas Fink , Martin Reeves
In an era of low growth, companies need innovation more than ever. They can draw on a large body of theory and precedent. In practice, though, the authors say that innovation is more of an art than a science. They argue that there is an opportunity to view innovati....
Release Date 2017/10 -
12 Essential Innovation Insights
Author Bruce Posner , Martha E. Mangelsdorf
Innovation is a perennial management challenge. That’s why, for decades, MIT Sloan Management Review has been publishing new research and insights about innovation, from business school researchers as well as from leading business executives and consultants. ....
Release Date 2017/10 -
Winning with Open Process Innovation
Author Martin Wörter , Georg Von Krogh , Torbjørn Netland
Most research on open innovation has focused on the use of ideas and knowledge from outside the organization in the development of products and services. But openness can be useful for process innovation, too. The authors' research shows that manufacturers can ben....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Fostering a Culture of Innovation
Author MIT Sloan Management Review
What does it take to make an organization truly innovative? This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review examines the deliberate processes managers can take to nurture innovation and the importance of being able to translate the language of innovato....
Release Date 2018/07 -
Grow Faster by Changing Your Innovation Narrative
Author Gregory P. Shea , George S. Day
Companies seeking to lead organic growth in their industry should start with a coherent, positive innovation narrative and reinforce it with action. Four innovation levers that organic growth leaders use to stay ahead of competitors are: (1) investing in innovation....
Release Date 2019/01 -
The Promise of Targeted Innovation
Author Tushmit M. Hasan , Gregory S. Carpenter , Marcel Corstjens
The biggest consumer goods companies shell out more than $1 billion a year for R&D but lately have seen no appreciable impact on their sales. That’s troubling for companies whose growth has plateaued in recent years. In contrast, some smaller competitors that....
Release Date 2019/01 -
How Innovative Partnerships Are Changing Health Care Delivery
Author Regina E. Herzlinger , Steven C. DeMaio
Innovation is transforming the health care industry, with unlikely collaborators teaming up to provide higher-quality, lower-cost services. In this interview with MIT SMR, Harvard Business School professor Regina Herzlinger, an expert in health care delivery and in....
Release Date 2018/10 -
Understanding China's Next Wave of Innovation
Author Wei Wei , George S. Yip , Mark J. Greeven
A few Chinese companies recently have challenged the R&D strategies of foreign companies and offered lessons on how to make ideas commercially viable. But another, less obvious force to be reckoned with in China are the thousands of innovative companies that are qu....
Release Date 2019/04 -
Nondisruptive Creation: Rethinking Innovation and Growth
Author Renée Mauborgne , Chan Kim
Many people have come to view disruption as a synonym for innovation. This single-minded focus leads companies to overlook an alternative path to growth: the nondisruptive creation of brand-new markets where none existed before. It’s time to embrace the idea ....
Release Date 2019/04 -
Unleashing Innovation With Collaboration Platforms
Author Likoebe Maruping , Massimo Magni
Digital collaboration platforms can leverage team diversity and expertise, but business must focus on how distributed teams orchestrate their collaboration and how leaders facilitate innovation. The specific collaboration platform you choose is less important. ....
Release Date 2019/04 -
What Tech Pioneers Can Learn From Emerging Markets
Author Frieda Klotz
Technology leaders are not shy about pushing the boundaries of their industries, and sometimes they go further — challenging the prevailing rules of society at large. The eagerness of entrepreneurs to test limits isn’t surprising to Tarun Khanna, the Jorge Paulo Le....
Release Date 2019/06 -
Author Michael B. Cusumano , David B. Yoffie , Annabelle Gawe
Innovation and transaction platforms have enabled nearly every type of exchange and activity imaginable in today’s world, earning some of the companies that own them valuations in excess of $1 trillion. But while successful platforms yield a powerful competitive advantage....
Release Date 2020/02 -
Why Innovation’s Future Isn’t (Just) Open
Author Neil C. Thompson , Didier Bonnet , Yun Ye
Forging partnerships and investing in startups for new technologies can help companies catch up with rivals, but it doesn’t always give them a competitive advantage. Most would do better to rethink their innovation systems. They must treat external innovation as a way o....
Release Date 2020/05 -
The Great Innovation Deceleration
Author Carl Benedikt Frey
COVID-19 may hurt innovation because it has reduced knowledge transmission globally. The direct causes include government restrictions on immigration, the dismantling of global value chains, a reduction in travel, and the isolation of knowledge workers in home offices. ....
Release Date 2020/07 -
Overcoming the Innovator’s Paradox
Author Jeff Dyer , Nathan Furr , Mike Hendron
People tend to think the biggest innovation challenge is finding great ideas. But many great ideas die when entrepreneurs fail to persuade others of their potential. Indeed, the more novel the idea, the harder it is to get resources for it.
Release Date 2020/07 -
Author Peter F. Drucker
Revered management thinker Peter F. Drucker is our trusted guide in this thoughtful, day-by-day companion that offers his penetrating and practical wisdom. Amid the multiple pressures of our daily work lives, The Daily Drucker provides the inspiration and advice to ....
Release Date 2009/10 -
A Year with Peter Drucker - 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness
Author Joseph A. Maciariello
Peter Drucker was the original big thinker. His ideas on management, innovation, leadership, effectiveness, and adapting to change formed the foundations of modern business wisdom. Drucker was also a mentor to many notable leaders in business, government, and nonpr....
Release Date 2014/12 -
Author Elizabeth Haas Edersheim
Final advice from the great Peter Drucker for driving growth and profitability in the 21st Century—with a new foreword from the author"We need a new theory of management. The assumptions built into business today are not accurate." - Peter DruckerBased on multiple ....
Release Date 2007/01 -
The Drucker Lectures: Essential Lessons on Management, Society and Economy
Author Rick Wartzman , Peter F. Drucker
Previously unpublished talks from the Father of Modern ManagementThroughout his professional life, Peter F. Drucker inspired millions of business leaders not only through his famous writings but also through his lectures and keynotes. These speeches contained some o....
Release Date 2010/06 -
The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs: Insanely Different Principles for Breakthrough Success
Author Carmine Gallo
A "THINK DIFFERENT" APPROACH TO INNOVATION-- Based on the Seven Guiding Principles of Apple CEO Steve JobsIn his acclaimed bestseller The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs author Carmine Gallo laid out a simple step-by-step program of powerful tools and proven tec....
Release Date 2010/10