Executing Strategy
Leveraging Smart Data and Internet of Things to Realize Mass Customization
In an on-demand webinar, Wolfgang Gruel and Frank Piller detail new experiments in personal transportation.
Innovation Process
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Digital Marketing
Finding the Right Role for Social Media in Innovation
Social media provides a game-changing opportunity to support innovation and new product development.
Deborah L. Roberts and Frank T. Piller
Developing Strategy
Debating Disruptive Innovation
Three experts provide their responses to the article “How Useful Is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation?”
Juan Pablo Vázquez Sampere, Martin J. Bienenstock, and Ezra W. Zuckerman
Developing Strategy
How Useful Is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation?
How well does Clayton M. Christensen’s theory describe what actually transpires in business?
Andrew A. King and Baljir Baatartogtokh
Stanford’s Tina Seelig on Creativity: “Everything You See is Ripe for Innovation”
“Mastering the ability to reframe problems is an important tool for increasing your imagination” writes Stanford’s Tina Seelig.
Leslie Brokaw
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.
Martha E. Mangelsdorf
Culture
Is Your Company Ready for Open Innovation?
Without successful implementation, the benefits of open innovation strategies will not materialize.
Ulrich Lichtenthaler, Martin Hoegl and Miriam Muethel
Supply Chains & Logistics
What Happens When You Outsource Too Much?
Managers must understand which competencies they can safely outsource and which they should manage internally.
Francesco Zirpoli and Markus C. Becker
Business Models
Bringing Open Innovation to Services
Companies should organize their service innovation processes to be more open to external ideas.
Henry Chesbrough
Innovation Strategy
The 5 Myths of Innovation
Increasingly, innovation is being applied to the development of new service offerings, business models, pricing plans and management practices.
Julian Birkinshaw, Cyril Bouquet and J.-L. Barsoux
IT Governance & Leadership
The 4 Ways IT Is Revolutionizing Innovation
The rising data flood and emerging tools for analyzing it are changing the ways innovation gets done.
An Interview with Erik Brynjolfsson
Collaboration
The Practice of Global Product Development
This article presents frameworks for companies considering a shift to global product development.
Steven D. Eppinger and Anil R. Chitkara
Global Strategy
Innovation From the Inside Out
Grameen Bank and others know that you get the best answers by burying yourself in the questions.
Erik Simanis and Stuart Hart
Quality & Service
Designing Waits That Work
Designers at restaurants and theme parks are leading the way in thinking about how to make waiting in line more pleasant.
Donald A. Norman
Collaboration
How to Manage Outside Innovation
Should external innovators be organized in collaborative communities or competitive markets? The answer depends on three crucial issues.
Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani
Innovation Strategy
Seeking innovation? Look in new places.
To generate innovative ideas, companies need to look beyond the familiar.
Climate Change
A New Way to Collaborate
Researchers hope a new Web-based platform will enable better deliberation on complex problems.
Martha E. Mangelsdorf
Innovation Strategy
Breakthroughs and the ‘Long Tail’ of Innovation
To understand how breakthroughs in creativity occur, managers must understand how most collaborations work.