Innovation Strategy
The Dandelion Principle: Redesigning Work for the Innovation Economy
People who are “different,” behaviorally or neurologically, can add significant value to companies.
Innovation Management
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Culture
How Innovative Is Your Company’s Culture?
A new assessment tool can help executives pinpoint a company’s innovation strengths and weaknesses.
Jay Rao and Joseph Weintraub
Executing Strategy
Outsourcing Business Processes for Innovation
Many companies pursue business process outsourcing to trim costs. But it can evolve into much more.
Mary C. Lacity and Leslie P. Willcocks
Culture
The Inside and Outside View of Innovation
Two recent books focus on different aspects of innovation — within and outside the organization.
Alden M. Hayashi
Boards & Corporate Governance
The Trouble With Too Much Board Oversight
Is board oversight — helpful as it can be — detrimental to innovation?
Olubunmi Faleye, Rani Hoitash and Udi Hoitash
Boards & Corporate Governance
Bringing Opportunity Oversight Onto the Board’s Agenda
Boards need to monitor not only a company’s risks but also its ability to generate opportunities.
Larry Bennigson and Frank S. Leonard
Innovation Strategy
Is Your Company Choosing the Best Innovation Ideas?
Generating good innovation proposals from within the ranks of the organization is only the beginning. The more difficult part is creating a selection process that identifies which ideas to implement.
Markus Reitzig
Developing Strategy
What Every CEO Needs to Know About Nonmarket Strategy
In a global economy, sustained competitive advantage arises from tackling social, political and environmental issues as part of a corporate strategy.
David Bach and David Bruce Allen
Innovation Strategy
Innovation Strategies Combined
Some approaches to achieving innovation work well together — but some don’t.
Frank T. Rothaermel and Andrew M. Hess
Supply Chains & Logistics
Outcome-Driven Supply Chains
Supply chains should be designed and managed to deliver one or more of six basic outcomes.
Steven A. Melnyk, Edward W. Davis, Robert E. Spekman and Joseph Sandor
Executing Strategy
Do You Have A “Plan B”?
Many companies have trouble making the transition from a failing business model to one that works. Often, one culprit is an inability to experiment.
Alden M. Hayashi
Executing Strategy
Collaborating With the Right Partners
R&D alliances with suppliers or universities are more likely to be fruitful.
Larry Yu
Business Models
Linking Customer Loyalty to Growth
By Timothy L. Keiningham, Lerzan Aksoy, Bruce Cooil and Tor Wallin Andreassen
Developing Strategy
The Five Stages of Successful Innovation
Defining an innovation process increases companies’ future value.
Alissa Mariello
