Executives should track Internet commentary in China to protect their company’s reputation — and market position.

Companies should deliberately disrupt the normal flow of work at multiple levels, because it can lead to breakthroughs for the organization.

Disruption 2.0

This bedrock U.S. manufacturing sector is facing consolidation, further cutbacks, and renewal.

As companies request more personal data from their website visitors, people become increasingly protective of the information they share.

Twelve strategies to shape a company’s destiny.

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.

In tough times, this venerable mail and documents company boosted not only its R&D spending but the creativity of its approach.

Rather than putting consumers in arbitrary “buckets” for targeting, marketers should join them online in communities of passion and interest.

As cost cutting narrows the field of business journalism, it has become more difficult to put out a corporate story — or take one in.

Companies can improve their innovation performance by getting their formal and informal organizations in sync.

Allowing employees access to online IT services, such as e-mail, desktop applications, and file storage, could save corporations money and improve productivity.

New socially responsible trading networks seek to facilitate long-term profitable investment.

Companies like IBM and P&G have prospered by opening their borders, but there are cautionary lessons from the quality movement of the 1980s.

Four new strategies offer a path to future profits for today’s troubled newspaper and magazine companies.

The CEO of Silicon Valley–based design firm IDEO contends that elegant, customer-centric design stems from a simple set of thinking practices.

A review of The Silver Lining, by Scott D. Anthony.

Consumers process only the most useful and appealing information presented in advertisements.

How telecommuting policies affect productivity and work-family conflict.

The Obama administration’s focus on digital patient records to minimize medical errors and improve efficiency has promise, but will face significant obstacles.

Subaru’s chief marketing officer on how to sell cars in a tough market.

Art Kleiner, author of The Age of Heretics: A History of the Radical Thinkers Who Reinvented Corporate Management, introduces a lesson in historical perspective from Future Savvy: Identifying Trends to Make Better Decisions, Manage Uncertainty, and Profit from Change by Adam Gordon.

Ten-year-old Cricket Communications found that even the oft overlooked supply chain can be a lucrative target for innovation.

Web-based computing services are already saving money for many large enterprises. It’s time to jump on the bandwagon.

By embracing the principles of lean manufacturing, Wipro Technologies learned how best to complete software projects.

A new strategy recommends putting out new products in large volume and letting the marketplace — not focus groups — separate winners from losers.

A direct-to-consumer media strategy can help companies build brands and reach consumers in new ways.

The information systems group at Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. has moved from an "order-taker" role to "next-generation demand management” in an effort to meet overall corporate needs.

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.

People place more emphasis on numbers that have more digits, even when the economic value is the same or less.

Most consumer brands are not creating value. The exceptions share a set of “energized” attributes that companies can identify and exploit.

A long-standing champion of high-tech innovation foresees a fundamental shift toward more transparent institutions and a more relationship-driven economy.

The management author and former CEO of Intel Israel on the need to do the unexpected and attempt the impossible.

Why people contribute to collaborative projects and what companies stand to gain from understanding their motivations.

CEO Andrew Prozes on why his company needed to transform itself to survive in the highly competitive online data and content marketplace.

Videoconferencing technology can affect the way employees interpret information and make judgments.

Slowly, companies are leaving the physical world behind to cut costs, improve communication, and find new ways to collaborate.

Mobile phone operators are turning to LTE as the fourth-generation technology to provide inexpensive wireless broadband access for cost-conscious consumers and businesses.

A survey finds that information technology is a neglected asset in joint ventures, leading to disturbing results.

Exposure to high levels of testosterone in the womb can play a role in determining success in certain forms of financial trading.

In the new marketing and media ecosystem, some will fail, some will thrive, and all will have to evolve.

Baby boomers are responsible for more than 40 percent of retail spending in the U.S. and western Europe, but many companies still focus on youth and young families.

For broadband service providers — and the Internet in general — “digital confidence” pays off.

To build closer connections to customers, start by developing analytical prowess.

Even in an era when you can “Google” just about anything, many libraries have remained as vibrant, dynamic, and popular as ever. They’re staying that way by redefining the business they’re in.

A molecular biologist and entrepreneur sees green as the next wave of the genomic revolution.

For many companies, success in the next decade will depend on how well they implement information technologies that transform when and how people do their jobs.

Across nations, corporate culture is a better predictor of a firm’s ability to capitalize on disruptive innovations than factors such as government policy and R&D spending.

People are more comfortable lying via e-mail than in pen-and-paper communication, despite the ease with which e-mails can be stored and searched.