All articles tagged: innovation

Failure and the root of invention

Bringing together business, technology, and experience can help you outlast and outperform the competition.

It can make you a more creative leader and problem solver — no sense of humor necessary.

The novel The Magnificent Ambersons reveals the dangers of complacency in the face of transformative new technologies.

Analysis from the Global Innovation Index suggests that R&D spending will hold steady — or even increase — in the post-pandemic world.

How companies come together to create value when disruption leads to new industry sectors.

Leading global utilities are using R&D and innovation to advance their market competitiveness — but investment levels remain low.

NYU’s Christian Busch makes the case that serendipity is a skill, resulting from a mindset that allows you to see and act on opportunities in seemingly unrelated facts or events.

Five principles of service design, adapted for the COVID-19 era.

“Unrealistic” timelines can actually work. Here’s how.

Disciplined, rigorous testing of ideas and strategies is fundamental to innovation, but businesses are often held back by misconceptions.

Getting better at prioritizing, innovating, and leading with humanity.

Companies that invest in digital capabilities and act on necessities will thrive in a challenging environment.

Business ventures that go beyond emissions reductions to actually remove existing carbon and other pollutants from the environment could be good for both the planet and profits.

The pandemic is forcing companies to focus on experiences their clients expect, while mobilizing them to accelerate product and service innovation.

B2B companies can use the COVID-19 crisis as an opportunity to reevalute what clients and stakeholders need, and accelerate products and services that will better serve them.

Technology was already pushing mass markets and production to become more personalized and distributed, and the novel coronavirus is accelerating the shift.

The AR market is predicted to top more than US$1 trillion by 2030. So where’s the killer app that will win over consumers?

The top digital performers transcend traditional approaches to large-scale change.

The right strategy will allow businesses to take advantage of the value that e-commerce platform providers can offer.

In the new book Fully Grown, economist Dietrich Vollrath argues that the recent spell of moderate growth in the U.S. is a sign of success.

Sarah Kaplan looks at how leaders can turn stakeholder scrutiny and difficult decisions to their advantage in her new book, The 360˚ Corporation.

In More from Less, MIT Sloan School of Management’s Andrew McAfee argues that the “four horsemen of the optimist” are galloping to the planet’s rescue.

With presence of mind, you can free your brain to create flashes of insight.

How to think like a CEO, handing off the baton after a long tenure, and more of the most read stories this year.