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.e.l.f. Beauty and rhode are giving the beauty business a makeover
CEOs Tarang Amin and Nick Vlahos discuss how they’re staying true to their shared vision as expectations rise.
- 2.Resilience is a skill that’s just as important as tech know-how
Amid significant changes to how people work and live, the ability to persevere is critical.
- 3.How innovation happens
Innovation is like a garden — you need to create an environment where it can flourish.
- 4.The power of feelings at workBy aligning the pursuit of business objectives with the meeting of human needs, companies can tap into powerful emotional forces in their current cultural situations.
- 5.Ports of innovation: How ABP is turning maritime hubs into clean energy powerhouses
Max Harris, group head of strategy and sustainability at Associated British Ports, the largest ports operator in the United Kingdom, explains how the company is using tech to accelerate the energy transition across industrial sectors—and create new business models.
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