Culture
The Inside and Outside View of Innovation
Two recent books focus on different aspects of innovation — within and outside the organization.
Innovation
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Collaboration
Reinventing Employee Onboarding
Employee orientation practices that focus on individual identity can lower employee turnover.
Collaboration
Organizing R&D for the Future
The art of collaboration is one that many research and development organizations have yet to master.
Executing Strategy
Experiments in Open Innovation at Harvard Medical School
Open innovation was used in diabetes research to bring greater openness into every stage of research.
Innovation Strategy
Bringing Research and Practice Together
Executives and academic researchers have perspectives that can complement one another.
Business Models
Optimizing Your Digital Business Model
If you lack a good digital business model, your customers may leave you behind.
Innovation Strategy
How to Use Analogies to Introduce New Ideas
If used wisely, analogies can help an organization’s employees comprehend change and innovation.
Innovation Strategy
Innovation Lessons From 3-D Printing
How should companies respond to game-changing open-source innovations from online user communities?
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Winning With Data
The Fall 2012 issue of MIT Sloan Management Review features a number of articles about how companies can use data to win at business.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Innovating With Analytics
Data-savvy organizations are using analytics to innovate — and to gain competitive advantage.
Disruption
How Disruptive Will Innovations from Emerging Markets Be?
What happens when successful companies in emerging markets make the leap into more developed ones?
Business Models
Amoeba Management: Lessons From Japan’s Kyocera
Kyocera Corp.’s distinctive management system seeks profitable growth by extreme decentralization.
New Product Development
A Challenging Question for Innovators
MIT’s Michael Schrage asks: “Who do you want your customers to become?”
Disruption
Clay Christensen Asks: How Will You Measure Your Life?
“Our careers provide the most very tangible, immediate achievement,” says the Harvard Business School professor. But they’re only a piece of the life puzzle.
Collaboration
How to Create Productive Partnerships With Universities
Companies can improve collaborations with universities by giving more thought to relationship structure.
Innovation Strategy
What It Takes to Be a Serial Innovator
An intriguing new book discusses the traits of serial innovators at established companies.
Culture
How to Become a Sustainable Company
How do companies create the conditions that embed sustainability in strategy and operations?
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.