strategy+business: INNOVATION

The Elusive Right Path to Engineering Offshoring

by Vikas Sehgal, Sunil Sachan, and Ron Kyslinger — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600

Farming out product design and development can be a risky venture, as many organizations have learned the hard way. Here are five steps to making it work.

The Evolution of Technology

by Art Kleiner — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600

To economist W. Brian Arthur, the value of innovation depends on harnessing the natural progression of shared knowledge.

Staying on Your Toes

by Matt Palmquist — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Companies should deliberately disrupt the normal flow of work at multiple levels, because it can lead to breakthroughs for the organization.

Profits Down, Spending Steady: The Global Innovation 1000

by Barry Jaruzelski and Kevin Dehoff — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Booz & Company's annual study of the world's biggest corporate R&D spenders finds that most companies have stuck with their innovation programs despite the recession -- and many are boosting spending to compete more effectively in the upturn.

Integrated Innovation at Pitney Bowes

by David Dobson — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

In tough times, this venerable mail and documents company boosted not only its R&D spending but the creativity of its approach.

Books in Brief: The Upside of Downturns

by David K. Hurst — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

A review of The Silver Lining, by Scott D. Anthony.

The Promise (and Perils) of Open Collaboration

by Andrea Gabor — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Companies like IBM and P&G have prospered by opening their borders, but there are cautionary lessons from the quality movement of the 1980s.

The Thought Leader Interview: Tim Brown

by Art Kleiner — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The CEO of Silicon Valley-based design firm IDEO contends that elegant, customer-centric design stems from a simple set of thinking practices.

Are You Killing Enough Ideas?

by Zia Khan and Jon Katzenbach — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Companies can improve their innovation performance by getting their formal and informal organizations in sync.

Debugging the Supply Chain

by Keith Buckley and George Appling — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:00:00 -0500

Ten-year-old Cricket Communications found that even the oft overlooked supply chain can be a lucrative target for innovation.

The Promise of In-market Innovation

by Alexander Kandybin, Surbhee Grover, and Nami Soejima — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:00:00 -0500

A new strategy recommends putting out new products in large volume and letting the marketplace -- not focus groups -- separate winners from losers.

How to Shut Down a Project Gracefully

by Rita Gunther McGrath — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:00:00 -0500

Companies that rely on innovation for growth must learn to live with failure. But lack of commercial success does not have to be a terrible result.

Dov Frohman Leads the Hard Way

by Paula Margulies — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:00:00 -0500

The management author and former CEO of Intel Israel on the need to do the unexpected and attempt the impossible.

Best Business Books 2008: Innovation

by Jon Gertner — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600

Chasing Breakthroughs

Beyond Borders: The Global Innovation 1000

by Barry Jaruzelski and Kevin Dehoff — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600

This year's annual Booz & Company study of corporate R&D spending reveals, for the first time, where in the world the money is being spent -- and why.

China's Long Road to Innovation

by William J. Holstein — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:00:00 -0600

Beijing is mandating an increase in home-grown R&D, but Chinese companies face long odds in meeting international standards of innovation.

The Unique Advantage

by Alexander Kandybin and Surbhee Grover — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

To succeed in a mature industry like consumer products, the trick isn't being first -- it's being hard to copy.

Design for Frugal Growth

by Jaya Pandrangi, Steffen Lauster, and Gary L. Neilson — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

With the right kind of organization, you can expand while cutting costs.

P&G's Innovation Culture

by A.G. Lafley, with an introduction by Ram Charan — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

How we built a world-class organic growth engine by investing in people.

Survival-of-the-Fittest Innovation

by Edward Baker — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:00:00 -0500

Booz & Company Partner Alexander Kandybin on why consumer products companies should look to the power of natural selection to break out of the incremental innovation trap.

The Sum of the Parts

by Michael Cooke, Richard Turner, and Stephen Chen — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:00:00 -0500

Effective product innovation depends on fast access to critical design and engineering data. At Whirlpool, the challenge turns out to be as much human as it is technological.

Uncaptured Fortunes in Intellectual Property

by David Kline — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0600

Many companies are still learning how to benefit from valuable intellectual property.

Launch and Learn

by Tim Laseter and Ron Kerber — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0600

To consistently turn out profitable new offerings, companies must integrate three distinct innovation portfolios.

Making Innovation Strategy Succeed

by Amy Bernstein — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0600

Booz Allen Hamilton Vice President Barry Jaruzelski discusses the process and findings of the annual Global Innovation 1000 study.

Best Business Books: Biotech

by Joe Flower — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0600

Worth the Risk?

The Google Enigma

by Nicholas G. Carr — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0600

Should innovation-minded managers look at the fast-growing Internet company as a model -- or an anomaly?

Best Business Books 2007: Innovation

by Michael Schrage — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0600

Humbling the Ambitious

The Customer Connection: The Global Innovation 1000

by Barry Jaruzelski and Kevin Dehoff — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0600

Booz Allen Hamilton's annual study of the world's largest corporate R&D spenders finds two primary success factors: aligning the innovation model to corporate strategy and listening to customers every step of the way.

Why the United States Needs an Innovation Strategy

by Amy Bernstein — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Author John Kao diagnoses America's ills as a continuing loss of innovation capacity. But, he says, there is a way to reverse that trend.

Technology and Its Discontents

by Edward Baker — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0500

In this interview, historian David Edgerton maintains that we will not fully understand innovation unless we rethink the history of technology and its uses.