Innovation strategy requires leaders to not only recognize breakthrough ideas but also break down internal silos and skepticism. Get evidence-based insights on innovation processes, frameworks, and design-thinking methodologies that succeed. Learn how to overcome invisible innovation hurdles and build competitive advantage.
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?
A new assessment tool can help executives pinpoint a company’s innovation strengths and weaknesses.
Employee orientation practices that focus on individual identity can lower employee turnover.
Two recent books focus on different aspects of innovation — within and outside the organization.
Open innovation was used in diabetes research to bring greater openness into every stage of research.
Executives and academic researchers have perspectives that can complement one another.
If used wisely, analogies can help an organization’s employees comprehend change and innovation.
How should companies respond to game-changing open-source innovations from online user communities?
The Fall 2012 issue of MIT Sloan Management Review features a number of articles about how companies can use data to win at business.
Kyocera Corp.’s distinctive management system seeks profitable growth by extreme decentralization.
An intriguing new book discusses the traits of serial innovators at established companies.
How do companies create the conditions that embed sustainability in strategy and operations?
Too many executives confuse what an innovation is with what an innovation would do for them if they had one.
For the Lego Group, a close bond with user communities is not a pipe dream but a reality.
Innovation often comes from tweakers who take existing ideas and turn them into something better.
Another method to pursue growth: Use thought experiments to assess new business model possibilities.
