Collaboration
Leveraging the Extended Enterprise: MITRE’s Handshake Tool Builds Virtual Collaboration
A social business tool is helping U.S. government agencies crowdsource collaboration.
R&D
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Culture
Innovation Lessons From China
China is becoming the best place to learn how to make ideas commercially viable.
Innovation Strategy
Spurring Innovation Through Competitions
Companies are increasingly turning to contests to generate many diverse ideas.
Innovation Strategy
The 2013 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize
This year’s award goes to the authors of “Creating Employee Networks That Deliver Open Innovation.”
Collaboration
Organizing R&D for the Future
The art of collaboration is one that many research and development organizations have yet to master.
Executing Strategy
Experiments in Open Innovation at Harvard Medical School
Open innovation was used in diabetes research to bring greater openness into every stage of research.
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.
New Product Development
The Problem With Digital Design
Using digital design in product development has potential downsides as well as advantages.
The Case for Standard Measures of Patent Quality
The current approach to measuring patent quality is not serving the world’s patent systems.
Technology Innovation Strategy
The Impact of IT Investments on Profits
New research finds that investments companies make in information technology increase profitability and sales more than investments in advertising or R&D do.
Innovation Strategy
The Age of the Consumer-Innovator
Consumers generate massive amounts of product innovation — which has significant implications for new product development.
Social Media
What Influences Customers’ Online Comments
Lessons for managers who are listening to social media.
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.
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.
