Innovation Process

Reimagining dense office spaces, evolving brand relationships, and accelerating ideation with prototyping tools.

Tools used for rapid prototyping can speed product development when used for idea generation.

Kay Firth-Butterfield (the World Economic Forum), Ya Xu (LinkedIn), and Charlotte Degot (BCG GAMMA) join MIT SMR senior project editor Allison Ryder for a discussion on innovating with artificial intelligence.

To get more from their innovation efforts, businesses must first determine what type of change they want to achieve.

A global study of online hackathons offers best practices for designing virtual ideation sessions.

Will Grannis of Google Cloud explains the organization’s collaborative approach to AI and machine learning innovation.

Making diversity and inclusion real, clarifying pandemic data, and how Amazon will innovate post-Bezos.

Sustaining innovation when a visionary founder steps down requires that all employees be given the license to innovate.

An innovation framework for COVID-19, circular business models, and the advantages of a diverse board.

A framework to help leaders understand how they weathered COVID-19 and to keep leveraging their new innovation skills.

Workforce ecosystems, machine discovery, human-machine collaboration, and the inventor of Wikipedia.

Wikipedia’s creation required the determined efforts of an unconventional, original thinker.

How leaders respond to employees’ emotional states affects both creativity and productivity.

Rapid exploration and experimentation often outperform a more deliberative approach to problem-solving.

A fundamental source of confusion about change is the use of that single term — change — to refer to three distinct strategies.

Innovators need to develop their innovation capital so they can turn their ideas into reality.

COVID-19’s impact on in-person work and global value chains may slow down innovation, too.

Use a networked approach to manage distributed innovation across teams, units, and regions.

The race to develop treatments and a vaccine for COVID-19 highlights the value of repurposing solutions.

SAP’s Max Wessel explains why advisory board guidance is critical in innovation.