Leading companies know that the future depends on the capabilities, functions, channels, and insights they can tap by working with others.

In The Glass Cage, Nicholas Carr reminds us that almost every business decision involves tradeoffs.

You won’t find them through typical strategic planning, executive retreats, or brainstorming sessions.

Companies that winningly reposition their brands tend to do so by anticipating market trends and overcoming or minimizing common challenges.

Michael Schrage proposes a fast, cheap, experiment-driven approach to boosting the bottom line in The Innovator’s Hypothesis.

Arguments over the value of autism could affect our view of the purpose of business.

Jason Jennings, author of The Reinventors, introduces a lesson in leveraging existing capabilities from How to Kill a Unicorn, by Mark Payne.

The leading companies in the tech industry are reworking their business models to deliver everything-as-a-service.

The digital interconnection of billions of devices is today’s most dynamic business opportunity.

To stave off online competitors, supermarkets should work with their suppliers and get back to personalized service.

Traditional entertainment companies are buying up new multichannel networks in pursuit of online audiences.

Greasing the Skids of Invention

Your own employees may pose a bigger IT hazard than outside threats.

Ten years of research reveal the best R&D strategies for the decade ahead.

Nicholas Carr, author of The Glass Cage: Automation and Us, introduces a lesson in generating deeper insights from The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload, by Daniel J. Levitin.

It’s time for companies and governments to take the steps that will lead to an evolution in analytics.

Here are 11 tips to encourage employees to build better ideas.

Advertisers are eager to take advantage of mobile channels, but they must carefully position their products to get consumers’ attention.

A new Strategy& online survey helps you check your innovation proficiency.

Here are 15 ways to generate better ideas every day.

By structuring CEOs’ contracts to focus on the long-term health of their company, newly public firms can encourage an emphasis on innovation.

An animated look at Theodore Levitt’s theory of why concentrating on customers matters more than a focus on driving sales.

IMD professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski describes three concepts that can help companies craft more effective social strategies.

Executives who take more chances may prove to be a better long-term bet than those who play it safe.

If you want to keep your co-workers happy, you should resist the temptation to look at your mobile during meetings.

Getting and keeping the attention of the social media generation means making your brand all about them.

China’s most recognizable brand has plans to overtake Apple and Samsung.

The benefits of an organic, more iterative approach to product development. See also “Lessons in Product Design from Modern Warfare — In Pictures.”

If it expects to keep growing, the industry must adopt a digital mind-set.

Apple is buying the electronic company’s expertise in human-centered design, not its market share.

At the Japanese auto giant, unplanned, agenda-free meetings are ubiquitous and indispensable.

Employees who feel their managers listen to their complaints are more likely to use social media to benefit their company than to air their grievances.

Five indicators reveal when your sector is about to be transformed by dematurity.

Innovation expert Scott D. Anthony has a toolkit for surviving the wreck-strewn entrepreneurial journey, from initial concept to reality.

What are the paths to economic growth for today’s emerging markets?

This podcast explores how human we want robots to be—and how that affects everything from autonomous cars to warfare.

A company that collaborates with its rivals can create more business for itself.

Check out this new interactive graphic to see if your profession will soon become automated.

Companies that rely on traditional project management methods could be getting an incomplete picture of their own vulnerabilities and opportunities.

The emergence of new technologies could convince physicians and insurers that patient-specific healthcare is here to stay.

Navigating the media in a crisis is complex, but it starts with knowing when to surf and when to swim.

Les Leopold, author of How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour: Why Hedge Funds Get Away with Siphoning Off America’s Wealth, introduces a passage on the debilitating effects of mass firings from Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t, by Simon Sinek.

Companies that only have access to “little data” can still use that information to improve their business.

Crowdsourcing offers companies the opportunity to analyze large amounts of data in innovative ways.

Traditional offices are evolving in ways that affect where, when, and how we get our best ideas.

Future leaders will succeed by being entrepreneurial and by rethinking the balance between financial and social goals.

In many categories, the value of brands may be in decline.

In order to fend off competitors and foster growth, large CPG companies must bring the prices they set for products in line with their value to consumers.

In The Craft Beer Revolution, Steve Hindy traces an industry disruption that gives beer drinkers reason to cheer.

Business units abroad that focus on technology and R&D exert more influence with the home office than those that focus on sales or marketing.

Behind all the technology we’ve started taking for granted is the most important element of all: the consumer.

The physicist, author, and software entrepreneur has high expectations of pretty much everything and everyone.

A call to arms for the digital executive.

The app markets are winning—it’s time to focus on working (and winning) within them.

Success and profits flow to companies with uniquely valuable market propositions — regardless of their sector.

In The Second Machine Age, two MIT professors show how the exponential growth of new technologies is remaking the world.

The ice cream market reveals that consumers don’t mind smaller packaging as much as they do bigger price tags.

It takes discipline to empower others to awaken their creativity, energy, and spontaneity.

Make human-centered design the heart of your digital agenda.

In A More Beautiful Question, Warren Berger says that asking “why, what if, and how” can help companies become more efficient and creative.

The management scholar provides an incisive look at the true potential of big data and the many challenges to unleashing it.

The very business model that made the company so wildly successful could eventually cause its downfall.

Find out before it’s too late if you’re recruiting a trailblazer or an imposter.

To take advantage of employees’ innovative efforts, managers must first learn how to encourage and nurture them.

Many adjacency moves fail because they’re driven by the wrong motives. But a lot can be learned from those that succeed.

Business experts say a wealth of new products and ideas will flow from emerging economies to developed markets—but real-world examples are hard to find.

A new infographic tells the story of Facebook over the past decade, from college intranet to global sensation.

To produce a climate of innovation that trickles down from the top, start by following this effective formula for leadership role modeling.

An interactive look at how the world’s most valuable emerging companies stack up.

A review of Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change, by Edmund Phelps.

Nancy Scola reviews Joel Gurin’s Open Data Now, the first book to detail the rich business opportunities in open data and the challenges in capturing them. 

How to help close the gap between assets under management and revenues.

Five ways to boost the impact of new endeavors without adding bureaucracy or cost.

Consumers respond better to commercials with emotional appeal than to neutral ads or those that are too informative.

Tech entrepreneur Christopher Schroeder explains why you need to pay attention to the mobile-powered masses.

Companies benefit from strong IT leaders. The trick is developing and retaining them.

Hostile acquisitions may be largely a thing of the past, as they’ve been replaced with gentler—and more effective—M&A strategies.

Steve Yastrow says improvisation is a far more effective sales tool than the hackneyed pitch—but there are limitations.

Eric Ries talks about how the “build, measure, learn” principle can help companies innovate and get ahead. For more related insights, read "Why Eric Ries Likes Management."

Four clear paths for winning and retaining customers today.

What’s really happening with the 2.5 exabytes of data created every day.

New high-tech companies are more attractive to investors when they show room for growth.

A new wave of software innovation is about to transform industry — and give the United States the chance for a lasting edge. See also America’s Manufacturing Advantage — In Pictures.

How same-day delivery, 3D printing, and autonomous vehicles will affect the sector.

In the fourth video interview of this five-part series, Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, describes his system of innovation accounting—and how it can convert learning into dollars. For more related insights, read “Why Eric Ries Likes Management."

A new set of tools and challenges is refining how we do our jobs.

From the headlines to the C-suite, big data embodied the height of strategy-as-fashion in 2013.

To foster an environment of smart risk-taking, leaders should use guardrails, not handcuffs.