Innovation
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Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey?
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How Office Control Freaks Can Learn to Let Go
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Change Management Requires a Change Mindset
Change management Digital ArticleOur ability to manage change hinges on our ability to manage ourselves, including our fears and anxieties. -
How Medical Records Can Close the Information Gap in Patient Care
Innovation Digital ArticleNew services are using research data and anonymized medical records to identify ways to treat conditions that lack care guidelines. -
How “Perspective Swaps” Can Unlock Organizational Change
Change management Digital ArticleStepping into a colleague’s shoes can reveal surprising new ways of thinking. -
How Midsize Companies Can Make the Most of Disruption
Organizational change Digital ArticleNew research shows three ways these smaller companies can drive change rather than react to it. -
Yes, the Metaverse Is Still Happening
Web-based technologies Digital ArticleDon’t get left behind while competitors continue to invest in virtual environments. - SPONSORED CONTENT FROM Optum
Tackling the Health Care Workforce Crisis through Human Innovation
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Could a Subscription Model Spur Innovation in U.S. Health Care?
Innovation Digital ArticleA new pricing model may help providers develop new treatments and improve access for patients. -
Ethics in the Age of AI
Management Digital ArticleThe next generations of generative AI, quantum computing, and other emerging technologies don't just pose a challenge for organizational operations and... -
How Investing in DEI Helps Companies Become More Adaptable
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleA survey of 79 firms found that inclusion and adaptability are closely linked. -
Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive
Innovation Magazine ArticleCreate new markets for growth without destroying existing companies or jobs. -
Blue Oceans in Outer Space
Emerging markets Magazine ArticleTaking stock of the economic opportunities to be found beyond our planet - SPONSORED CONTENT FROM Mastercard
Balancing Digital Innovation and Customer Trust in the Middle East and Africa
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Driving Organizational Change — Without Abandoning Tradition
Change management Digital ArticleTo shift entrenched ways of thinking, leaders need to understand and respect where people are coming from. -
How Generative AI Could Disrupt Creative Work
AI and machine learning Digital ArticleThree scenarios — and how to navigate them. -
Why Managers Should Think More Like Hackers
Management philosophy Digital ArticleIt can help you work around obstacles, find opportunities across silos, and more. -
How Biometrics Are Transforming the Customer Experience
Innovation Digital ArticleAs technology like facial recognition becomes more pervasive, companies need to prioritize privacy and security. -
A Framework for Picking the Right Generative AI Project
AI and machine learning Digital ArticleHow to identify the most valuable — and least risky — use cases for your company. -
5 Ways to Boost Creativity on Your Team
Creativity Digital ArticleThe way we work today often stifles creativity. But it doesn’t have to. -
Lessons on Customer Engagement from Fan Controlled Football
Innovation Digital ArticleThe esports venture uses blockchain to let fans call the shots in real time. -
How AI Is Helping Companies Redesign Processes
AI and machine learning Digital ArticleCompanies like Shell and DBS Bank are using it to change how their work gets done.
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How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen Steve Jobs returned to Apple, in 1997, it had a conventional structure for a company of its size and scope. It was divided into business units, each... -
How "Perspective Swaps" Can Unlock Organizational Change
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleStepping into a colleague's shoes can reveal surprising new ways of thinking. -
Driving Organizational Change - Without Abandoning Tradition
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTo shift entrenched ways of thinking, leaders need to understand and respect where people are coming from. -
What Is Disruptive Innovation?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which... -
What Is Strategy?
Strategy Magazine ArticleFor starters, it’s not the same as operational effectiveness. -
Know Your Customers' "Jobs to Be Done"
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleFirms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors,... -
Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIn the past few years, a new methodology for launching companies, called "the lean start-up," has begun to replace the old regimen. Traditionally, a venture's... -
Why Design Thinking Works
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleWhile we know a lot about practices that stimulate new ideas, innovation teams often struggle to apply them. Why? Because people's biases and entrenched... -
The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs
Innovation Magazine ArticleSix months after Jobs’s death, the author of his best-selling biography identifies the practices that every CEO can try to emulate. -
Understanding China
Global Business SpotlightThis package begins with "What the West Gets Wrong About China," by Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, which discusses three fundamental misconceptions:... -
The Competitive Advantage of Nations
International business Magazine ArticleAre we matching ourselves against the toughest competitors and serving the most demanding customers? How can we be more innovative? -
How Generative AI Could Disrupt Creative Work
AI and machine learning Digital ArticleThree scenarios — and how to navigate them. -
Change Management Requires a Change Mindset
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleOur ability to manage change hinges on our ability to manage ourselves, including our fears and anxieties. -
Collaborative Intelligence: Humans and AI Are Joining Forces
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleArtificial intelligence is transforming all sectors of the economy, but there's no reason to fear that robots will replace all human employees. In fact,... -
Three Cognitive Traps that Stifle Global Innovation
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleSimple tests reveal whether you suffer from them (and you probably do). -
Blue Ocean Strategy
Strategy & Execution HBR BestsellerDespite a long-term decline in the circus industry, Cirque du Soleil profitably increased revenue twenty-two-fold over the last 10 years by reinventing... -
Welcome to the Experience Economy
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleIn this article, co-authors B. Joseph Pine II and James Gilmore, founders of the management consulting firm Strategic Horizons, preview the likely characteristics... -
The Discipline of Innovation
Creativity Magazine ArticleIn business, innovation rarely springs from a flash of inspiration. It arises from a cold-eyed analysis of seven kinds of opportunities. -
You Need an Innovation Strategy
Competitive strategy Magazine ArticleIt’s the only way to make sound trade-off decisions and choose the right practices. -
What Makes a Great Leader?
Leadership Big IdeaMastering the ABCs of innovation at scale.
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Airbnb in Amsterdam (A), Portuguese Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In February 2014, Amsterdam became the first city to issue new regulations specifically to allow home-sharing. Airbnb's Molly Turner, Global Head of Civic... -
Building Innovation at Terrapin Bright Green
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Describes Terrapin Bright Green, an environmental consulting and strategic planning firm, and its approach for creating integrative, systematic solutions... -
Tools from "The Innovator's Guide to Growth"
69.95View Details There's a pervasive belief that innovation is random and unpredictable. The Innovator's Guide to Growth, however, argues that there are patterns that... -
Airbnb in Amsterdam (B), Portuguese Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details In December 2014, the City of Amsterdam and Airbnb announced an MOU to promote responsible home-sharing and to simplify the payment of tourist tax for... -
Diogenes-FG: Heralding Responsible Innovation in Fiduciary Services for Retirement and Nonprofit Trustees
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Diogenes pioneered the use of technology to support trustees and boards in their role as fiduciaries of employee retirement funds. Typically, a multinational... -
TaxiForSure: Technical Innovation in The Radio Cab Industry
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The ''Taxi For Sure: Technological Innovation in the Radio Cab Industry'' and ''The Radio Cab Industry (August 2014)'' cases present an example of the... -
IBM: Building with Blockchain
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details IBM needed a win. Facing flattening sales and increasing analyst concerns, the century-old giant that had reinvented itself so often before was in search... -
MOVE Guides (C)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Having decided to go where her customers wanted to take her, CEO Brynne Kennedy had led MOVE Guides into the managed-moves market segment, in addition... -
Overview of Service Design in the Performing Arts
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details This technical note intends to provide an overview of the existing studies on service design in the performing arts, which are mainly focused on the world... -
Amable--Marketing Innovation in Education
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Amable, a Bangalore-based children's education organization, was co-founded by Ratnesh and Aditi Mathur, a husband-wife duo who wanted to provide innovative... -
Allbirds: Decarbonizing Fashion
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Allbirds is a footwear startup focused on simple design, comfort, and sustainable natural materials. The case describes the company's product development... -
Arist: Learning Bit by Bit
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Arist was a Boston, Massachusetts-based startup with a text message learning platform. It was founded by three undergraduate students and raised more... -
Innovation at GSA: Zero Environmental Footprint and the Extreme Challenge (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In 2010, Martha Johnson, new Administrator of the General Services Agency (GSA), advanced the Zero Environmental Footprint (ZEF) initiative-a sustainability... -
Mercury Rising: Knight Ridder's Digital Venture
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Captures the efforts of newspaper publisher Knight Ridder to create a digital venture. Knight Ridder proves to be a pioneer in digital publishing, launching... -
Hacking Heroin, Portuguese Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details "Hacking Heroin" was the first hackathon that Annie Rittgers, founder of Cincinnati-based 17a, had organized or even attended. "There will continue to... -
The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy
30.00View Details Our political system in America is broken, right? Wrong. The truth is, the American political system is working exactly how it is designed to work, and... -
Evaluating Microsavings Programs: Green Bank of the Philippines (A)
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Green Bank of the Philippines was known for its product innovation and its ability to bring new products to market. In 2002, Green Bank designed an untested... -
Startup Cisco
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case outlines how a small team of people apply lean startup methods within Cisco, creating successful internal innovation over a period of a year.... -
Reinventing Project Management: The Diamond Approach to Successful Growth and Innovation
Strategy & Execution Book38.00View Details Projects are the engines that drive innovation from idea to commercialization. In fact, the number of projects in most organizations today is expanding... -
Innovation at Insigne Health
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Insigne Health is a fictional for-profit, integrated health insurer/health care provider whose leadership believes that by shifting members' focus from...
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How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen Steve Jobs returned to Apple, in 1997, it had a conventional structure for a company of its size and scope. It was divided into business units, each... -
How "Perspective Swaps" Can Unlock Organizational Change
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleStepping into a colleague's shoes can reveal surprising new ways of thinking. -
Driving Organizational Change - Without Abandoning Tradition
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTo shift entrenched ways of thinking, leaders need to understand and respect where people are coming from. -
What Is Disruptive Innovation?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which... -
What Is Strategy?
Strategy Magazine ArticleFor starters, it’s not the same as operational effectiveness. -
Know Your Customers' "Jobs to Be Done"
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleFirms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors,... -
Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIn the past few years, a new methodology for launching companies, called "the lean start-up," has begun to replace the old regimen. Traditionally, a venture's... -
Why Design Thinking Works
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleWhile we know a lot about practices that stimulate new ideas, innovation teams often struggle to apply them. Why? Because people's biases and entrenched... -
The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs
Innovation Magazine ArticleSix months after Jobs’s death, the author of his best-selling biography identifies the practices that every CEO can try to emulate. -
Understanding China
Global Business SpotlightThis package begins with "What the West Gets Wrong About China," by Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, which discusses three fundamental misconceptions:...