Collaboration
Developing Successful Strategic Partnerships With Universities
Companies often struggle to establish and run university partnerships effectively.
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Disruption
12 Essential Innovation Insights
We searched the MIT SMR archives to find 12 essential innovation insights.
Culture
Why China Is the World’s Innovation Role Model
China continues to be the best place to go to learn how to make ideas commercially viable.
Collaboration
The Customer-Inventor Revolution
The ways that consumer-users improve product through tinkering has evolved over the past decade.
Data & Data Culture
Why Big Data Isn’t Enough
Technology innovators should be wary of letting big data speak for itself.
Security & Privacy
How “Smart” Is Your R&D Spending?
What’s happening this week at the intersection of management and technology.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Improving Analytics Capabilities Through Crowdsourcing
Open-innovation platforms, used thoughtfully, can expand a company’s access to analytics talent.
Developing Strategy
Finding a Lower-Risk Path to High-Impact Innovations
High-impact innovations have built-in uncertainty — but careful strategizing can reduce the risk.
New Product Development
R&D, Meet E&S (Experiment & Scale)
Fast, iterative “virtual research centers” are edging out traditional approaches to R&D.
Executing Strategy
Navigating the Patent Minefield Through Consortia
Tech consortia help reduce patent risk, but managers must weigh the pros and cons for innovation.
New Product Development
Getting Product Development Right
Companies must better gauge whether potential customers will appreciate their innovations.
Digital Marketing
Finding the Right Role for Social Media in Innovation
Social media provides a game-changing opportunity to support innovation and new product development.
Global Strategy
Developing New Products in Emerging Markets
A successful innovation developed by Cisco’s R&D unit in India offers practical insights.
Executing Strategy
Why Learning Is Central to Sustained Innovation
Operational excellence requires cultivating an expectation for continuous improvement in all employees.
Business Models
Lessons From Hollywood: A New Approach To Funding R&D
Project-centered governance may be an efficient way to organize innovation in fields such as biotech.
Collaboration
When Customers Become Fans
Smartphone maker Xiaomi cultivates user pride through user-centered and open innovation.
Collaboration
The Art of Managing Complex Collaborations
Biomarkers Consortium, a public-private partnership in the health industry, presents five lessons in managing collaboration.
New Product Development
The Easy Industry Research Hardly Anybody Uses
Before introducing a new product to an emerging industry, companies should track the evolution of its category labels.
Global Strategy
The Surprising Effectiveness of “Assembly Line” Innovation
Unconventional approaches to innovation are speeding up new product development, making R&D faster and cheaper.