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Innovate with Urgency - Even When There's No Crisis
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Oslo Innovation Clinic Offers Treatment for Ideas
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Tell Better Data Stories with Motion and Interactivity
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What Ron Johnson Got Right
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In R&D, Generalists Are More Valuable Than You Think
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What Customers Want from the Collaborative Economy
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How to Push Your Team to Take Risks and Experiment
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With Innovation, You Don’t Get Points for Difficulty
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Why Hasn't Apple Pay Replicated Alipay's Success?
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Why Companies Are Betting Against Big Ideas
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Commoditized Technology and Commoditized Results
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The Dearth of Female "Management Gurus"
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Save That Thought
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Consumer Reports is Wrong about Extended Warranties
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What B2B Companies Get Wrong About Volume Discounts
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3 Ways Big Companies Are Connecting with Younger Consumers
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Drones Go to Work
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How Mindfulness Can Help Engineers Solve Problems
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What AI "App Stores" Will Mean for Radiology
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The Problem with Groupon’s Business Model
Technology and analytics Digital ArticleGroupon is poised for its debut as a public company. One of the fastest growing of the recent hatch of Internet darlings, the deal-a-day company was worth $5.3 billion to Google just a few short months ago, in November of 2010. Somewhat astonishingly, Google’s offer was spurned and the company set its sights on going […]
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Why Entrepreneurs Should Think Like Scientists
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The Middle Path to Innovation
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Firms Led by CEOs from Former U.S. Frontier Areas Are Awarded More Patents
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Make Decisions with a VC Mindset
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Should Your Brand Hire a Virtual Influencer?
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Winning at Influencer Marketing
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Your Teams Should Drive AI Adoption — Not Senior Leadership
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The 3-Stage Process That Makes Universities Prime Innovators
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Corporate Learning Is Boring — But It Doesn’t Have to Be
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A Growth Strategy that Creates and Protects Value
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Why Playing It Safe Is the Riskiest Strategic Choice
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The Challenges of Becoming a Less Hierarchical Company
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Why Has the EV Market Stalled?
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GenAI Could Make Online Conversations More Civil
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Overcoming Common Challenges to Disruptive Innovation
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The Missing Link Between Strategy and Innovation
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Harnessing Imagination to Drive Innovation
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The Benefits of Innovation That Isn’t Disruptive
Growth strategy Digital ArticleFinding entirely new opportunities for growth has four clear advantages.
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Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani at avatarin (A) (Abridged)
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X-IT Products, LLC
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Corporate Venture Capital
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GolfLogix: Measuring the Game of Golf
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Ubernomics (B): Uber's Car Services
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Floodgate: On the Hunt for Thunder Lizards
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Public Sector Service Design: Designing the Employment Pass Service Centre for the Ministry of Manpower, Singapore
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Tascot Ties: Going Neck-and-Neck with Tradition
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All Nippon Airways' "Blue Wing": Elevating Social Impact
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy, Vol. 2 (Paperback + Ebook)
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Fate of the Vasa
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Mission to Mars (A)
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Civil War Shoulder Arms (B)
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Katie Burke (A)
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SRS and the Defense Innovation Unit: Rethinking Procurement
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Collaborative Commercialization at Gilead Sciences: Resolving the Innovation Vs. Access Tradeoff
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Grooming Young Graduates as Committed Development Professionals: Dhan Academy and the Dilemma of Doing Well By Doing Good
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Transforming Verizon 2015: Going Above the Network
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In 2015, the Chairman and CEO of Verizon Communications reflects on his four years leading the company and considers strategic repositioning for the future....
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Innovate with Urgency - Even When There's No Crisis
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThree tips for leaders. -
Oslo Innovation Clinic Offers Treatment for Ideas
Innovation Digital ArticleThe first-of-its-kind Clinic of Innovation at Oslo University Hospital works a lot like an outpatient health clinic, but treats ideas rather than patients. Ideas walk in, are diagnosed, and are treated or referred; some are sent home with a prescription for further development, and an appointment for a follow-up visit. In addition to providing technical […] -
Tell Better Data Stories with Motion and Interactivity
Design thinking Digital ArticleWhen it comes to making visualizations, time really is on your side. -
What Ron Johnson Got Right
Innovation Digital ArticleThe ousted J.C. Penney chief understood the importance of intuition. -
In R&D, Generalists Are More Valuable Than You Think
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleBreadth is as important as depth. -
What Customers Want from the Collaborative Economy
Innovation Digital ArticleAnd why your company can’t ignore it. -
How to Push Your Team to Take Risks and Experiment
Experimentation Digital ArticleNormalize failure. No, really: Do it. -
With Innovation, You Don’t Get Points for Difficulty
Innovation Digital ArticleSomeone in India recently asked me what I thought about an innovation strategy featuring a heavy dose of “imitation.” My response was, “Innovation isn’t Olympic diving.” What did I mean? An individual diver’s scores for an event are a factor of two things: how well they execute their dive, and the “degree of difficulty” of […] -
Why Hasn't Apple Pay Replicated Alipay's Success?
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleTwo key drivers for successful platform adoption. -
Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani at avatarin (A) (Abridged)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In 2016, Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani, aeronautical engineers at All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd., began to wonder why, in a world of accelerating globalization...