Innovation

Urban environments can substitute for internal resources in driving process innovation.

To understand how breakthroughs in creativity occur, managers must understand how most collaborations work.

Innovation in developing markets has less to do with finding new customers than addressing issues of product acceptability, affordability, availability and awareness.

Organizations can teach themselves to grow.

Research shows that the most important factor for driving innovation is company culture.

Defining an innovation process increases companies’ future value.

Using outside technologies to develop products and licensing intellectual property to external parties will carry a company only so far. The next frontier is to open the business model itself.

The history of the Swedish retailer IKEA illustrates the role that adaptation and experimentation play in the development of an innovative strategy.

A company’s market value actually increases when its known rivals innovate.