Collaboration
The Customer-Inventor Revolution
The ways that consumer-users improve product through tinkering has evolved over the past decade.
The ways that consumer-users improve product through tinkering has evolved over the past decade.
Technology innovators should be wary of letting big data speak for itself.
What’s happening this week at the intersection of management and technology.
Open-innovation platforms, used thoughtfully, can expand a company’s access to analytics talent.
High-impact innovations have built-in uncertainty — but careful strategizing can reduce the risk.
Fast, iterative “virtual research centers” are edging out traditional approaches to R&D.
Tech consortia help reduce patent risk, but managers must weigh the pros and cons for innovation.
Companies must better gauge whether potential customers will appreciate their innovations.
Social media provides a game-changing opportunity to support innovation and new product development.
A successful innovation developed by Cisco’s R&D unit in India offers practical insights.
Operational excellence requires cultivating an expectation for continuous improvement in all employees.
Project-centered governance may be an efficient way to organize innovation in fields such as biotech.
Smartphone maker Xiaomi cultivates user pride through user-centered and open innovation.
Can data assets be used as currency for financial transactions?
Biomarkers Consortium, a public-private partnership in the health industry, presents five lessons in managing collaboration.
Before introducing a new product to an emerging industry, companies should track the evolution of its category labels.
Unconventional approaches to innovation are speeding up new product development, making R&D faster and cheaper.
A social business tool is helping U.S. government agencies crowdsource collaboration.
China is becoming the best place to learn how to make ideas commercially viable.
Companies are increasingly turning to contests to generate many diverse ideas.