All articles tagged: design

Tom and David Kelley of IDEO show readers how to channel the creativity they never knew they had.

The author of The Lean Startup is thinking big about the challenges facing companies in an economy driven by innovation.

Many leaders inadvertently stand in the way of superior performance. Here’s how to avoid the hindrance trap. And to check your own performance, take our interactive survey.

Strong new vehicle designs and pent-up demand are pushing sales volumes back up near historic highs, and reduced cost structures mean profitability is up too.

Manufacturers that take a positive view of product proliferation are better meeting the demands of their customers.

These four excelled at making meaningful connections in a world where that matters more than ever.

As the Affordable Care Act takes effect, health insurance companies will have to design and implement new healthcare models to keep up with the new consumer population.

Booz & Company’s annual study of R&D spending reveals the tools that are transforming innovation—from customer insight to product launch.

Looking to get up to speed on the far-reaching changes in the U.S. healthcare landscape? These resources will help.

Organizations are much more complex than how they’re designed. Executives should take that complexity into account when measuring performance.

As board members become more entrenched and partisan, their institutional knowledge loses value.

Planning and performance management systems can be designed to reinforce your most distinctive capabilities—not undermine them.

A review of Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age, by Marty Neumeier.

How United Technologies Corporation—owner of Pratt & Whitney, Otis Elevator, and a wide range of other businesses—became one of the major corporate success stories of the past two decades. See also “The Story of UTCʼs Success—In Pictures.”

As companies evolve away from traditional hierarchies, a major cultural shift is required.

The eight components of your organizational genome hold the secret to unleashing superior performance.

The world would be a better place without these terms and phrases.

The secret to successful launches is doubling down on the attributes and capabilities that make your offering stand out.

Chip Bell teams up with Marshall Goldsmith in the third edition of his best-selling business book on mentorship.

Using a smarter design, Renault has engineered high-quality, low-cost cars for cost-conscious consumers.

Successfully innovative consumer products, like SodaStream and Dyson, appear to share two attributes: coherence and being difficult to copy.

Seven principles can help multinationals sell to a rising segment of eager Chinese customers.

The world of work has changed an awful lot in the past 30 years. It’s time for your performance management to catch up.

George Dyson, author of Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe, introduces a passage arguing for a more equitable distribution of the wealth created on the Internet from Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier.

A crucial first step in applying analytics is to decode the jargon.