Innovation Strategy
The Promise of Targeted Innovation
In the consumer goods industry, small R&D bets often outperform big ones.
R&D
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Emerging Markets
Why China Is the World’s Innovation Role Model
China continues to be the best place to go to learn how to make ideas commercially viable.
Leslie Brokaw
New Product Development
The Customer-Inventor Revolution
The ways that consumer-users improve product through tinkering has evolved over the past decade.
Leslie Brokaw
How “Smart” Is Your R&D Spending?
What’s happening this week at the intersection of management and technology.
Theodore Kinni
New Product Development
R&D, Meet E&S (Experiment & Scale)
Fast, iterative “virtual research centers” are edging out traditional approaches to R&D.
Michael Schrage
Innovation Strategy
Navigating the Patent Minefield Through Consortia
Tech consortia help reduce patent risk, but managers must weigh the pros and cons for innovation.
David Lopez-Berzosa, Annabelle Gawer, and Gonzalo Camarillo
New Product Development
Getting Product Development Right
Companies must better gauge whether potential customers will appreciate their innovations.
Martha E. Mangelsdorf
Digital Business
Finding the Right Role for Social Media in Innovation
Social media provides a game-changing opportunity to support innovation and new product development.
Deborah L. Roberts and Frank T. Piller
Emerging Markets
Developing New Products in Emerging Markets
A successful innovation developed by Cisco’s R&D unit in India offers practical insights.
Srivardhini K. Jha, Ishwardutt Parulkar, Rishikesha T. Krishnan, and Charles Dhanaraj
Executing Strategy
Why Learning Is Central to Sustained Innovation
Operational excellence requires cultivating an expectation for continuous improvement in all employees.
Michael Ballé, James Morgan, and Durward K. Sobek II
Business Model Innovation
Lessons From Hollywood: A New Approach To Funding R&D
Project-centered governance may be an efficient way to organize innovation in fields such as biotech.
Andrew W. Lo and Gary P. Pisano
Collaboration & Networks
When Customers Become Fans
Smartphone maker Xiaomi cultivates user pride through user-centered and open innovation.
Jielin Dong and Yanli Zhang
R&D
Viewing Data as a Liquid Asset
Can data assets be used as currency for financial transactions?
Steve Allan (SVB Analytics), interviewed by Michael Fitzgerald
Open Innovation
The Art of Managing Complex Collaborations
Biomarkers Consortium, a public-private partnership in the health industry, presents five lessons in managing collaboration.
Eric Knight, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, and Barbara Mittleman
New Product Development
The Easy Industry Research Hardly Anybody Uses
Before introducing a new product to an emerging industry, companies should track the evolution of its category labels.
Leslie Brokaw
Emerging Markets
The Surprising Effectiveness of “Assembly Line” Innovation
Unconventional approaches to innovation are speeding up new product development, making R&D faster and cheaper.
Leslie Brokaw
Social Business Adoption
Leveraging the Extended Enterprise: MITRE’s Handshake Tool Builds Virtual Collaboration
A social business tool is helping U.S. government agencies crowdsource collaboration.
Donna Cuomo, Laurie Damianos and Stan Drozdetski (MITRE), interviewed by Gerald C. Kane
Emerging Markets
Innovation Lessons From China
China is becoming the best place to learn how to make ideas commercially viable.
Edward S. Steinfeld and Troels Beltoft
Organizational Structure
The 2013 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize
This year’s award goes to the authors of “Creating Employee Networks That Deliver Open Innovation.”
By MIT Sloan Management Review
Open Innovation
Experiments in Open Innovation at Harvard Medical School
Open innovation was used in diabetes research to bring greater openness into every stage of research.
Eva Guinan, Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani
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