December 10, 2019
Corporate entrepreneurship has always been an essential engine of growth and renewal, but its focus has been to drive sustaining innovations in core businesses. CEOs increasingly recognize the need...
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Friday December 06, 2019 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Corporate entrepreneurship has always been an essential engine of growth and renewal, but its focus has been to drive sustaining innovations in core businesses. CEOs increasingly recognize the need...
November 01, 2015
Barriers to innovation are declining. It is easier today for an innovator to get into business than it has been at any time in history. There are many reasons for this, but most are driven by some...
May 01, 2014
OVERVIEW: Although we celebrate the lone inventor, innovation typically involves teams, each making a critical contribution to the final success. Thinking about the different stories of each team can...
March 01, 2013
The Western movie has been a part of American culture for over a century, almost since the invention of the movie projector. Such an established form of entertainment would seem to be outside the...
May 01, 2012
Any sufficiently new technology involves the management of paradox. When a truly new and potentially disruptive capability meets existing organizational norms, the results often appear contradictory...
November 01, 2012
Twelve Research-on-Research working groups held meetings at the 2012 IRI Annual Meeting. Eight groups report on the status of their work, describe ongoing initiatives, and summarize preliminary...
How do you encourage internal collaboration? How do you manage and leverage your internal capabilities to drive collaborative innovation activities? How do you facilitate and motivate internal...
November 01, 2011
The idea of a “new normal” has come to define our current economic era. It brings with it connotations of tight resources, rapid technological change, shortened product life cycles, and intense...
May 10, 2012
Gaining Innovation Leadership through Market and User Insights Russ Martinelli, Senior Program Manager, Intel Irene Petrick, PhD, Professor of Practice, College of Information Sciences &...
2004 - 2006 Deliverables RTM article , "Harnessing External Technology for Innovation", May/June 2006 Description This Working Group (#04-1) examined various business models by comparing and...
February 28, 2011
Started with the Research Question: – What is the business value of Enterprise 2.0 Software?(e.g. social networking, wikis, forums, blogs, folksonomies, rating systems.) Concluded that we need to...
January 01, 2008
Two separate but simultaneous transformations—one in science, one in business—affect our world and our fortunes today. I believe these ongoing shifts, largely underway by 1995, will irrevocably...
August 30, 2016
My career has been a colorful journey. In academia, I worked at the borderline between physical experiments and the early days of numerical simulation. I did some research work, earned my PhD, and...
October 03, 2017
Join Heather Whiteman, Head of People Strategy, Analytics & Operations at General Electric (GE) Digital, as she provides a look into GE Digital’s challenges and successes along the journey of...
July 12, 2018
Breakout Session Workshop facilitators use a proven game (Snakes and Ladders) in an engaging and informative session that illustrates the common barriers and challenges companies face in moving to...