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The 4 Types of Innovation and the Problems They Solve
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleDisruption isn't the only approach. -
How to Do Strategic Planning Like a Futurist
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleYou don't need a time line; you need a time cone. -
Why Now Is the Time for “Open Innovation”
Innovation Digital ArticleCovid-19 has shown how companies can work together to solve problems. -
Building a Culture of Experimentation
Innovation SpotlightIt takes more than good tools. It takes a complete change of attitude. -
5 Ways to Design Products Customers Love
Innovation Digital ArticleTactics for empathizing with users. -
Does Crowdsourcing Need a Cash Prize to Work?
R&D ResearchOffering nothing is better than a small prize. -
Shrinking Fast and Smart in the Defense Industry
Government Magazine ArticleAuthor’s note: Alistair Hanna, Michael Reopel, and Stuart Flack, all of McKinsey & Company, contributed to this article. The U.S. defense industry is struggling to reorganize itself for growth, if not for survival. The disappearance of the communist threat and the desperate need to revive the U.S. economy have taken the defense industry for a […] -
Feed R&D--or Farm It Out? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFrom a converted muffler repair shop, Ray Kelner launched RLK Media in 1985, selling its radical audio speakers to affluent connoisseurs for $20,000 a... -
One Obstacle to Curing Cancer: Patient Data Isn’t Shared
R&D Digital ArticleLarge data sets could lead to a breakthrough. -
3 Ways to Incorporate Sustainability into Everyday Work
Sustainable business practices Digital ArticleIt has to start with leadership. -
Being Early Beats Being Better
R&D Magazine ArticleThe study: Henrich Greve and Marc-David Seidel studied the role of first-mover advantage in determining which technologies get adopted and which do not. They tracked the sales history of two wide-body jets: the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar. The researchers concluded that the DC-10’s one-year head start contributed to its greater success […] -
How Much Cash Does Your Company Need?
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleIn late 2001, the directors of Pfizer asked that very question. And with good reason. After its 2000 merger with rival Warner-Lambert, the New York-based... -
Innovating Through Design
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIn 1985 the architect Michael Graves designed his first consumer product--a now famous teakettle--for Alessi, the northern Italian home-furnishings manufacturer.... -
Getting Unusual Suspects to Solve R&D Puzzles
R&D Magazine ArticleFor even the toughest of R&D problems, there are often people out there with innovative solutions already on their shelves or in their back pockets. The trick for corporate executives is finding and gaining access to those individuals. Our research with a company that broadcasts technological problems into the ether—and gets back solid results—has given […] -
Stop Panicking About Corporate Short-Termism
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticlePublic firms invest more in R&D than private ones. -
Where More R&D Dollars Should Go
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleCompanies are expecting to spend more on R&D this year, but they're putting it in the wrong place--too much on new project development and not enough... -
Can Apple Attract Top Researchers If It Keeps Their Research Secret?
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleIt may have to pay for the privilege. -
Connect and Develop: Inside Procter & Gamble's New Model for Innovation
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleFor generations, Procter & Gamble generated most of its phenomenal growth by innovating from within--building global research facilities and hiring the... -
The Future of AI Will Be About Less Data, Not More
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleWe need computers with some common sense. -
Can Science Be a Business?: Lessons from Biotech
Intellectual property Magazine ArticleBiotech has not delivered on its promise because the industry’s structure—much of it borrowed from Silicon Valley—is flawed. Businesses engaged in advancing basic science as a core activity need a new design.
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The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
35.00View Details The bestselling classic on disruptive innovation, by renowned author Clayton M. Christensen. His work is cited by the world's best-known thought leaders,... -
Start A Fire: Creating Value and Growth
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Armed with a patent on technology that allowed users to modify existing websites and then provide access to the improved versions, Oded Golan and his... -
Hewlett-Packard: Singapore (D)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
United Safety & Survivability Corporation: Strategies during COVID-19
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Founded in 1984, United Safety & Survivability Corporation (USSC) was an American company headquartered in Exton, Pennsylvania, that began in a garage... -
ARCH Venture Partners: November 1993
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details ARCH Venture Partners has successfully managed a venture fund and technology transfer organization for the University of Chicago for the past five years.... -
PlaceWare: Issues in Structuring a Xerox Technology Spinout
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Xerox has established a process to spin out technologies it develops that do not fit with its current business needs. To structure these "spinouts," a... -
Siemens AG: Global Development Strategy (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
BLES Biochemicals Inc. (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details BLES Biochemicals Inc., a research and development company, specializes in natural surfactants. After many years of trying, the president has finally... -
Napalm: From Soldiers Field to Trang Bang
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Napalm is one of the most destructive weapons ever to be invented. Yet, at its original inception it was nothing more than a technical challenge, and... -
The Universalization of L Oreal
Strategy & Execution Case Study1.00View Details In 2010, half of the world's cosmetics sales came from the so-called emerging markets for the first time; L'Oréal opened three new subsidiaries, in Egypt,... -
Innovation at Mahindra & Mahindra (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to 609-065 -
Untangling Spaghetti: How Innovation Changed at Oticon (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The bottom-up "Spaghetti Organization" for pioneering innovation at Oticon was successful growing the top line for almost two decades, but gradually became... -
Software and/or Data: Dilemmas in an AI Research Lab of an Indian IT Organization
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details This case is based on a four-month-long ethnography conducted during January-May 2020 in the research lab of an established IT-BPM (Information Technology... -
Innovating an "Outsourced R&D" Process for Matsushita Electric (MEI): Launching the Panasonic Digital Concepts Center
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Shows interaction of venture capital, incubator, and external R&D in Panasonic's technology strategy. -
SonoSite: A View Inside
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details After its spin-off from one of the world's largest ultrasound makers, Sonosite attempts to popularize a new kind of handheld ultrasound units. Sonosite... -
Big Data at IBM: What to Do About Hadoop? A
Technology & Operations Case Study14.00View Details When Aya Soffer first heard of Hadoop, an implementation of Google's MapReduce technology, she knew that it was important to pay attention to it even... -
Growth Strategies in the Pharmaceutical Industry (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case illustrates different growth strategies in the pharmaceutical industry. R&D management is a critical component of growth strategies, and the... -
Singapore: "Facing Challenges Together"
Global Business Case Study15.05View Details Since its expulsion from Malaysia in 1965, Singapore had transformed itself from a third world island nation into a vibrant city-state with one of the... -
Innovation at Mahindra & Mahindra (C)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to 609065 -
Untangling Spaghetti: How Innovation Changed at Oticon (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details The management team introduced a "cultural revolution" to support the new innovation process, followed by an innovation workflow involving project portfolio...
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The 4 Types of Innovation and the Problems They Solve
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleDisruption isn't the only approach. -
How to Do Strategic Planning Like a Futurist
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleYou don't need a time line; you need a time cone. -
Why Now Is the Time for “Open Innovation”
Innovation Digital ArticleCovid-19 has shown how companies can work together to solve problems. -
Building a Culture of Experimentation
Innovation SpotlightIt takes more than good tools. It takes a complete change of attitude. -
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
35.00View Details The bestselling classic on disruptive innovation, by renowned author Clayton M. Christensen. His work is cited by the world's best-known thought leaders,... -
5 Ways to Design Products Customers Love
Innovation Digital ArticleTactics for empathizing with users. -
Start A Fire: Creating Value and Growth
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Armed with a patent on technology that allowed users to modify existing websites and then provide access to the improved versions, Oded Golan and his... -
Does Crowdsourcing Need a Cash Prize to Work?
R&D ResearchOffering nothing is better than a small prize. -
Hewlett-Packard: Singapore (D)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Shrinking Fast and Smart in the Defense Industry
Government Magazine ArticleAuthor’s note: Alistair Hanna, Michael Reopel, and Stuart Flack, all of McKinsey & Company, contributed to this article. The U.S. defense industry is struggling to reorganize itself for growth, if not for survival. The disappearance of the communist threat and the desperate need to revive the U.S. economy have taken the defense industry for a […]