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Using Reverse Innovation to Fight Covid-19
Global Business Digital ArticleGlobal problems call for global solutions. -
The Reality of What Makes Silicon Valley Tick
Creativity Digital ArticleThe secret sauce is “socialstructing.” -
Visualizing Hip-Hop Lyrics as Cultural Indicator
Design thinking Digital ArticleGraphics aren’t just an alternative to representation in words. -
Solve America’s Employment Crisis With a Netflix Prize
Innovation Digital ArticleAn entire generation’s prosperity vanishing, food stamp use exploding. Welcome to the jobless future. This month’s jobs numbers drive home the point. The unemployment rate fell at the fastest rate for years — great news, right? Wrong. The lion’s share of the gains came from (wait for it) “temporary help services.” See what just happened? […] -
The Risky Business of Diversification
Innovation Magazine ArticleOn the basis of a sample from the top 200 of the Fortune “500” and data from the PIMS (Profit Impact of Market Strategies) project, this author gives some guidelines for established companies on what to expect from new ventures. He points out that it takes an average of 10 to 12 years before the […] -
Putting Your Company's Whole Brain to Work
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleInnovate or fall behind: The competitive imperative for virtually all businesses today is that simple. Responding to that command is difficult, however,... -
Intuit’s CEO on Building a Design-Driven Company
Design thinking Magazine ArticleTimothy Archibald When Scott Cook cofounded Intuit, in 1983, many other companies were already offering software to help people track their finances. In fact, at least 46 similar products launched before Quicken, the product Cook created, which is why we sometimes joke about how instead of having the first-mover advantage, Intuit had the “47th mover […] -
A Leap Year Lesson on Correcting Leadership Drift
Managing yourself Digital ArticleWe all know why leap years exist, right? Our calendars get out of synch with the solar system so we must periodically get our human calendars back on track with the celestial ones. In other words, February 29th is all about correcting drift. Without those corrections, things become more and more out of synch. Not […] -
Smart Patents
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleCompanies often undermine their intellectual capital through faulty or incomplete patent filings. A little-known device called the "continuation patent"... -
Why Companies Are Creating Their Own Coworking Spaces
Organizational Development Digital ArticleHow to support the new parents on your team. -
Innovation Versus Complexity: What Is Too Much of a Good Thing?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleWhat's the number of product or service offerings that would optimize both your revenues and your profits? For most firms, it's considerably lower than... -
Polycentric Innovation: The New Global Innovation Agenda for MNCs
International business Digital ArticleRecently I delivered a talk a the Council on Foreign Relations titled “Managing the New Trajectory of Global Innovation” explaining why and how multinationals must revamp their Western-centric innovation strategy in order to effectively leverage global ideas, talent, and markets. In our increasingly multi-polar world characterized by the inexorable rise of emerging markets like Brazil, […] -
Why the X Games Won't Dethrone the Olympics
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleA case study in how to assess the full impact of a potentially disruptive innovation. -
Kenya Is Becoming a Global Hub of FinTech Innovation
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleOther countries can learn from how it's using technology to expand financial inclusion. -
The Science of What We Do (and Don’t) Know About Data Visualization
Design thinking Digital ArticleThere are still open questions, but the research can provide some answers about what works. -
3 Ways Drones Are Changing Telecom
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Research: Which Firms Are Allowed to Be Disruptors?
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Afraid to Innovate? Create an Airlock
Innovation Digital ArticleI gave a talk at the Canadian Marketing Association in Toronto last week. Leaving the hall, I fell into step with a young marketer. She seemed stressed. “How are you doing?” I asked. “I liked your talk,” she said, “but it’s hard. Everyone wants to be innovative but no one wants to make a mistake.” […] -
What Is Disruptive Innovation?
Disruptive innovation Magazine ArticleTwenty years after the introduction of the theory, we revisit what it does—and doesn’t—explain.
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3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovator’s Mindset
Managing yourself Digital ArticleEmbracing curiosity, engaging in continuous learning, and fostering collaboration can help fast-track your career. -
Why Entrepreneurs Should Think Like Scientists
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleFounders of start-ups who question and test their theories are more successful than their overly confident peers. -
The Middle Path to Innovation
Innovation Magazine ArticleForget disruption and incrementalism. Here’s how to develop high-growth products in slow-growth companies. -
Firms Led by CEOs from Former U.S. Frontier Areas Are Awarded More Patents
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThe qualities that were needed to succeed on the frontier are the same ones needed to drive corporate innovation. -
Why Cross-Functional Collaboration Stalls, and How to Fix It
Collaboration and teams Digital ArticleResearch shows that 78% of leaders report “collaboration drag” — too many meetings, too much peer feedback, and too much time spent getting buy-in from stakeholders. - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM NVIDIA
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Make Decisions with a VC Mindset
Organizational decision making Magazine ArticleThe key is to embrace risk, disagreement, and agility. -
Should Your Brand Hire a Virtual Influencer?
Marketing SpotlightRelying on AI-generated personalities can be a low-risk, high-engagement strategy. -
Winning at Influencer Marketing
Management Digital ArticleOver the past 20 years the social media influencer industry has completely rearranged the way information and culture are conceived, produced, marketed,... -
Your Teams Should Drive AI Adoption — Not Senior Leadership
Innovation Digital ArticleMany companies appoint a designated senior leader to find ways to integrate new tech — and that’s a mistake. -
The 3-Stage Process That Makes Universities Prime Innovators
Business and society Digital ArticleHow these institutions carefully curate connections and relationships to take ideas from the drawing board into the marketplace. -
Corporate Learning Is Boring — But It Doesn’t Have to Be
Creativity Digital ArticleFour lessons from Disney on infusing creativity into employee training. -
A Growth Strategy that Creates and Protects Value
Innovation Digital ArticleFour steps to build a continuous value creation cycle. -
Why Playing It Safe Is the Riskiest Strategic Choice
Strategy Digital Article“Timid transformation” doomed certain retailers. There’s a better approach. -
The Challenges of Becoming a Less Hierarchical Company
Organizational change Digital ArticleLessons from one company on how to navigate the ups and downs of going flat. -
Why Has the EV Market Stalled?
Marketing Digital ArticleIf automakers want to boost sales, they must cater to a different set of interests and concerns. -
GenAI Could Make Online Conversations More Civil
Internal communication Digital ArticleNew research examines whether LLMs can teach people conflict-mediation techniques at scale. -
Overcoming Common Challenges to Disruptive Innovation
Disruptive innovation Digital ArticleHow companies can improve their prospects for growth.
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DBS: Digital Transformation to Best Bank in the World
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case covers the period from 2014 to 2020, when DBS embarks on its second strategy under the stewardship of Piyush Gupta. The aim is to become the... -
HTC and Virtual Reality
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In fall 2017, HTC CEO and Chairperson Cher Wang was driving the company to focus on virtual reality (VR). HTC's first VR product, VIVE, released in spring... -
STRIVR: Changing the Game in Virtual Reality
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details The CEO of a growing virtual reality company that trains athletes must decide whether or not to stay in sports or expand into other areas. -
GroupM India: The Human Dimension of Digital Transformation (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Case A sets the context of disruption in India and outlines the challenges facing GroupM in 2013. In the early 2010s, internet technology and social media... -
Innovating at EGA: From Ideas to Development
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case illustrates the dilemma faced by the president of EGA, a Latin American business school, who chooses to innovate and has to make some controversial... -
The Walt Disney Studios
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In December 2015, Alan Horn, chairman of The Walt Disney Studios, celebrates the world premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens - only the latest in a... -
Innovation and Agility at Tencent's WeChat
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case analyses the evolution of Tencent, now (in early 2019) one of the top 10 listed companies in the world. The case focuses on WeChat, the social... -
Four Products: Predicting Diffusion (2011)
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details An updated "Four Products" case. This 2011 version includes; sliced peanut butter, artificial dirt for thoroughbred race tracks, interactive tombstones,... -
HTC and Virtual Reality (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details In 2022, Cher Wang, CEO and Chairwoman of HTC, was focused on the company's pivot to virtual reality and the metaverse. Growing competition in consumer... -
Competency-Destroying Technology Transitions: Why the Transition to Digital Is Particularly Challenging
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Some technology transitions are exceedingly difficult for incumbent firms to execute. The bankruptcy filing by the Eastman Kodak Company highlighted the... -
DBS: From the "World's Best Bank" to Building the Future-ready Enterprise
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details This case presents the second phase of DBS Bank's internationally acclaimed digital transformation. Upon completing the first phase (2009-2014) of the... -
Lupin: Discovery Research
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Lupin, an India-based pharma firm, started its Novel Drug Discovery and Development (NDDD) division in 2010. In 2018, the division licensed MALT1 inhibitors... -
Unilever in India: Hindustan Lever's Project Shakti--Marketing FMCG to the Rural Consumer
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details With liberalization of India's economy and the opening up of markets to foreign multinationals such as Procter & Gamble, the Indian subsidiary of Unilever--Hindustan... -
Innovation Capital: How to Compete--and Win--Like the World's Most Innovative Leaders
32.00View Details Learn from the Best. Great leaders of innovation know that creativity is not enough. They succeed not only on the basis of their ideas, but because they... -
Innovate or Dye: How Matex International Innovates for Sustainability
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Public-listed Matex International Ltd, a Singapore-based specialty chemicals and dye manufacturer, was committed to spending up to 10% of its revenue... -
Synapse Technology Corporation: Using AI to Take a Good Look at Airport Security
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Could AI-based X-ray scanning platform make flying safer? Airport security officers had just seconds to decide if someone's luggage contained a knife,... -
Enhancing Innovation through Organisational Learning and Empathy Culture: Microsoft under CEO Satya Nadella
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case looks at the business and cultural transformation at Microsoft under CEO Satya Nadella, who took over in 2014 when the company had fallen prey... -
The Future of Start-Up Chile
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In 2021, public accelerator program Start-Up Chile, which ten years earlier had created a global buzz, might be losing its competitive edge to similar... -
MedImmune: FluMist Introduction
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Examines the launch of FluMist, the first significant innovation in influenza vaccines in over 50 years. The head of sales and marketing for MedImmune... -
Zoll Medical Corp. (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details When is a product ready for the market? In this case, engineers present a prototype medical device product to the CEO for approval. The product, developed...
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Using Reverse Innovation to Fight Covid-19
Global Business Digital ArticleGlobal problems call for global solutions. -
The Reality of What Makes Silicon Valley Tick
Creativity Digital ArticleThe secret sauce is “socialstructing.” -
Visualizing Hip-Hop Lyrics as Cultural Indicator
Design thinking Digital ArticleGraphics aren’t just an alternative to representation in words. -
Solve America’s Employment Crisis With a Netflix Prize
Innovation Digital ArticleAn entire generation’s prosperity vanishing, food stamp use exploding. Welcome to the jobless future. This month’s jobs numbers drive home the point. The unemployment rate fell at the fastest rate for years — great news, right? Wrong. The lion’s share of the gains came from (wait for it) “temporary help services.” See what just happened? […] -
The Risky Business of Diversification
Innovation Magazine ArticleOn the basis of a sample from the top 200 of the Fortune “500” and data from the PIMS (Profit Impact of Market Strategies) project, this author gives some guidelines for established companies on what to expect from new ventures. He points out that it takes an average of 10 to 12 years before the […] -
Putting Your Company's Whole Brain to Work
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleInnovate or fall behind: The competitive imperative for virtually all businesses today is that simple. Responding to that command is difficult, however,... -
Intuit’s CEO on Building a Design-Driven Company
Design thinking Magazine ArticleTimothy Archibald When Scott Cook cofounded Intuit, in 1983, many other companies were already offering software to help people track their finances. In fact, at least 46 similar products launched before Quicken, the product Cook created, which is why we sometimes joke about how instead of having the first-mover advantage, Intuit had the “47th mover […] -
DBS: Digital Transformation to Best Bank in the World
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case covers the period from 2014 to 2020, when DBS embarks on its second strategy under the stewardship of Piyush Gupta. The aim is to become the... -
A Leap Year Lesson on Correcting Leadership Drift
Managing yourself Digital ArticleWe all know why leap years exist, right? Our calendars get out of synch with the solar system so we must periodically get our human calendars back on track with the celestial ones. In other words, February 29th is all about correcting drift. Without those corrections, things become more and more out of synch. Not […] -
Smart Patents
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleCompanies often undermine their intellectual capital through faulty or incomplete patent filings. A little-known device called the "continuation patent"...