The Digital Tool Landscape
As part of the 2013 Global Innovation 1000 study, Booz & Company surveyed executives at more than 350 companies around the world to learn more about the digital tools that are transforming innovation. Our results show that at the development phase, productivity tools have reached maturity—most are widely used and effective. In other phases, particularly the front end of the innovation process, companies are experimenting with new marketing and customer insight tools that have game-changing potential.
Market and Customer Insight Enablers
Productivity Enablers
- 1.A leader’s handbook for managing culture
Harvard Business School professor emeritus James Heskett sums up the insights he’s gleaned in more than 30 years of studying corporate culture.
- 2.Off the clock: How our perception of time can affect productivity
Watching the clock drags performance down, and optimism about the future does the opposite. Managers who understand this can help boost engagement.
- 3.The best way to lead in uncertain times may be to throw out the playbook
Rather than follow a rigid blueprint, executives must help organizations focus on sensing and responding to unpredictable market conditions.
- 4.How fearless organizations succeedAmy Edmondson describes three steps leaders can take to create psychological safety, the prerequisite for greater innovation and growth.
- 5.Why do large projects go over budget?
A study of more than 100 years of infrastructure megaprojects reveals a consistent pattern of challenges at their core.
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