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Innovation Archive
March 1, 2010
Five Gates to Innovation
Corning Inc.’s process for developing inventive products actually works, a claim that few companies can make.
January 11, 2010
The Elusive Right Path to Engineering Offshoring
Farming out product design and development can be a risky venture, as many organizations have learned the hard way. Here are five steps to making it work.
January 4, 2010
The Evolution of Technology
To economist W. Brian Arthur, the value of innovation depends on harnessing the natural progression of shared knowledge.
November 24, 2009
Staying on Your Toes
Companies should deliberately disrupt the normal flow of work at multiple levels, because it can lead to breakthroughs for the organization.
October 27, 2009
Profits Down, Spending Steady: The Global Innovation 1000
Booz & Company’s annual study of the world’s biggest corporate R&D spenders finds that most companies have stuck with their innovation programs despite the recession — and many are boosting spending to compete more effectively in the upturn.
October 26, 2009
Integrated Innovation at Pitney Bowes
In tough times, this venerable mail and documents company boosted not only its R&D spending but the creativity of its approach.
August 27, 2009
Books in Brief: The Upside of Downturns
A review of The Silver Lining, by Scott D. Anthony.
August 27, 2009
The Thought Leader Interview: Tim Brown
The CEO of Silicon Valley–based design firm IDEO contends that elegant, customer-centric design stems from a simple set of thinking practices.
August 27, 2009
The Promise (and Perils) of Open Collaboration
Companies like IBM and P&G have prospered by opening their borders, but there are cautionary lessons from the quality movement of the 1980s.
August 27, 2009
Are You Killing Enough Ideas?
Companies can improve their innovation performance by getting their formal and informal organizations in sync.
July 14, 2009
Debugging the Supply Chain
Ten-year-old Cricket Communications found that even the oft overlooked supply chain can be a lucrative target for innovation.
June 2, 2009
The Promise of In-market Innovation
A new strategy recommends putting out new products in large volume and letting the marketplace — not focus groups — separate winners from losers.
May 26, 2009
Dov Frohman Leads the Hard Way
The management author and former CEO of Intel Israel on the need to do the unexpected and attempt the impossible.
May 26, 2009
How to Shut Down a Project Gracefully
Companies that rely on innovation for growth must learn to live with failure. But lack of commercial success does not have to be a terrible result.
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