Big Data, Analytics and the Path From Insights to Value

How the smartest organizations are embedding analytics to transform information into insight and then action. Findings and recommendations from the first annual New Intelligent Enterprise Global Executive study.

By Steve LaValle, Eric Lesser, Rebecca Shockley, Michael S. Hopkins and Nina Kruschwitz

Matchmaking With Math: How Analytics Beats Intuition to Win Customers

In sales, the rapport between a prospective buyer and seller can be the deciding factor. Using analytics, Assurant Solutions has tripled its success. (A case-study interview.) Free to subscribers
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Cameron Hurst, interviewed by Michael S. Hopkins and Leslie Brokaw

The 5 Myths of Innovation

Nowadays, goes the theory, innovation is supposed to be done constantly, by everyone in the company, improving everything the company is about — and new Web-based tools are here to help it happen. Is the theory right? Or do the experiences of companies reveal something different? Free to subscribers
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By Julian Birkinshaw, Cyril Bouquet and J.-L. Barsoux

Putting It Together: How to Succeed in Distributed Product Development

Handing off various parts of your innovation process can work — if you are willing to spend the time upfront and follow these suggestions. Free to subscribers
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By Jason Amaral, Edward G. Anderson Jr. and Geoffrey G. Parker

What Happens When You Outsource Too Much?

With complex products such as automobiles, integration is a key element of performance. That means managers must understand which activities and competencies they can safely outsource and which they need to keep. Free to subscribers
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By Francesco Zirpoli and Markus C. Becker

How to Find Answers Within Your Company

Internal knowledge markets can facilitate information sharing within large organizations. The trick for executives is figuring out how to make them work.

By Hind Benbya and Marshall Van Alstyne

First Look: The Second Annual Sustainability & Innovation Survey

Are organizations spending more or less on sustainability? What does the C-suite think about sustainability today? Which companies do executives identify as “world-class”? More than 3,000 managers worldwide answered these and other questions. Here are 12 observations drawn from what they said. Free to subscribers
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By Knut Haanaes, Balu Balagopal, David Arthur, Ming Teck Kong, Ingrid Velken, Nina Kruschwitz and Michael S. Hopkins

Bringing Open Innovation to Services

In recent years, open innovation has been changing the way many companies think about developing products. But open innovation can — and should — apply to services, too. Free to subscribers
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By Henry Chesbrough

Steve Jobs, the Way John Sculley Tells It

A quarter-century after the best-known romance and breakup in modern executive history, the partner who vanished has popped up with insights to share. Free to subscribers
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By Michael S. Hopkins

Why It Pays To Be an Optimist People with optimistic dispositions get jobs more easily and get promoted more, new research suggests. Martha E. Mangelsdorf Free to subscribers
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Crib Notes Notes on the complexities of democratic innovation, how a LEGO software hack became a lesson in open innovation, and other observations and ideas in this issue. Free to subscribers
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Are You Giving Globalization the Right Amount of Attention? Too little — or too much — attention from head office executives can cause problems in a company’s global operations. Allen Morrison and Cyril Bouquet Free to subscribers
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How to Develop a Successful Technology Licensing Program Six practices can help companies implement licensing as part of an open innovation strategy. Ulrich Lichtenthaler, Holger Ernst and James Conley Free to subscribers
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Increasing Profits, Sans Pain Jonathan Byrnes offers techniques to improve your organization’s profitability. Interview by Martha E. Mangelsdorf Free to subscribers
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