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
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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.
Business Models
Creating Value Through Business Model Innovation
Here are six questions for executives to consider when thinking about business model innovation.
The Case for Standard Measures of Patent Quality
The current approach to measuring patent quality is not serving the world’s patent systems.
Talent Management
Employee Profiling That Works: How IDEO Uncovers Hidden Talent
Global design firm IDEO develops rich profiles of employee capabilities and shares them across the organization.
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.
Business Models
A Question Every Manager Should Ask (Hint: It Has to Do With Megatrends)
The single best question companies should ask themselves is what megatrends are coming around the corner.
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.
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.