Innovation Strategy
Embrace Your Ignorance
The overconfidence of presumed expertise is counterproductive. Instead, data trumps intuition.
With AI rewriting many technology and business rules, leaders have never faced more pressure to innovate. Learn how to design teams and strategies that pave the way for innovation while avoiding common pitfalls. Drive change using proven wisdom to accelerate your team’s success.
The overconfidence of presumed expertise is counterproductive. Instead, data trumps intuition.
New research looks at the strategies executives use in capturing new growth opportunities.
Unconventional approaches to innovation are speeding up new product development, making R&D faster and cheaper.
China is becoming the best place to learn how to make ideas commercially viable.
P&G’s open innovation program nurtures collaboration with individuals and companies globally.
What does it take to set up a platform where many constituencies can do business?
People who are “different,” behaviorally or neurologically, can add significant value to companies.
Chinese companies are reengineering new product development in ways that reduce lead times.
Four key steps can help a new initiative create value for both the company and the public.
The most effective brainstorming processes draw from both individual thinking and group discussion.
Building a platform through which different groups interact requires smart thinking about strategy.
A new framework helps identify the best strategy for a particular product or service.
Managers can’t afford to rely on haphazard, hit-or-miss approaches to idea generation.
Twenty-two of world’s top fifty management thinkers have published their work in MIT Sloan Management Review.
Contests can be big motivators for getting people to bring all their creativity to the table.
Companies are increasingly turning to contests to generate many diverse ideas.
What motivates volunteers to take part in innovation projects?
This year’s award goes to the authors of “Creating Employee Networks That Deliver Open Innovation.”
Which parts of your innovation processes should you open up to the wider world?
How can companies protect themselves when industries converge?