January 01, 2015
Adrian Slywotzky talks with Jim Euchner about profit models and what it takes to create a good business design. Adrian Slywotzky has been studying what makes great business designs for years. His...
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January 01, 2015
OVERVIEW: Product development at manufacturing companies is increasingly complex. Linear product development processes, including the traditional Stage-Gate process, cannot support the iterative...
July 01, 2015
Successful growth companies are powered by effective innovation engines. Each of these has its own logic and its own sources of competitive advantage. P&G, for example, is well known for its...
July 01, 2015
Barry Jaruzelski talks with James Euchner about the factors that really do matter in building a growth company. Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company) has conducted studies of the effectiveness...
July 01, 2014
As Victor Hwang noted in an April 2014 article for Forbes, the term ecosystem has become “the next big business buzz-word.” Hwang’s Google Ngrams demonstrate a dramatic increase in the use of the...
July 01, 2012
It may seem odd to do a retrospective issue on a subject whose arrival on the scene is as recent as open innovation, but since the concept was first named and studied by Henry Chesbrough, it has taken...
September 01, 2012
John Seely Brown has been at the center of many of the most profound shifts in R&D management over the past three decades. As Chief Scientist at Xerox Corporation and director of PARC, co-chair...
January 01, 2011
A manager leading an essential development project, one central to the large technology company’s stated strategy, needed collaboration from other parts of the organization to reach project goals...
May 01, 2011
The term “research and development” didn’t enter the vocabulary until the mid-twentieth century, although forward-thinking companies had been collaborating with gifted scientists for at least a...
January 01, 2010
Firms moving to a model in which they complement their internal innovation efforts with innovation from external sources need to manage their intellectual property carefully. This requires careful...
September 01, 2010
In 10 Rules for Strategic Innovators, Vijay Govindarajan and co-author Chris Trimble discuss what it takes to innovate inside established companies. He emphasizes three concepts: forgetting lessons...
November 01, 2010
OVERVIEW: The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is revolutionizing the passenger travel experience with radical innovations in the airplane interior. These innovations are the direct result of an unprecedented...
January 01, 2009
OVERVIEW: Even large firms cannot mobilize all the ideas, technology, business expertise, and market channels they need to deliver breakthrough products. A new model is rapidly emerging in which...
January 01, 2009
OVERVIEW: How to achieve a sustained competitive advantage that ensures long-term survival has become a major concern for managers of any company, but especially for managers of small and medium-...
March 29, 2016
In 10 Rules for Strategic Innovators, Vijay Govindarajan and co-author Chris Trimble discuss what it takes to innovate inside established companies. He emphasizes three concepts: forgetting lessons...
January 01, 2009
Even large firms cannot mobilize all the ideas, technology, business expertise, and market channels they need to deliver breakthrough products. A new model is rapidly emerging in which firms...