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...
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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...
January 01, 2012
OVERVIEW: Many firms rely on a single new-product development process for all projects. But designing new products for different business contexts requires that a firm deploy different new-product...
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...
July 01, 2012
OVERVIEW: Forget Linux, Netflix, DARPA, and the X Prizes. Deliberate, managed open innovation goes back 300 years. At that time the determination of longitude at sea was both vitally important and...
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
OVERVIEW: Firms in emerging markets have traditionally followed one of two strategies to catch up with multinational enterprises (MNEs): developing customized products, services, or innovative...
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...
How do you introduce a new product in a B2B environment? Is the new product managed in a centralized manner from HQ, or is the new product introduced in a de-centralized manner with the global...
January 11, 2016
Progress in any field happens in fits and starts. That’s as true in innovation as anywhere else. Often, a best practice emerges because it has demonstrated the potential to significantly improve a...
2013 - 2015 Deliverables Report out, Member Summit 2015 Description This ROR explored what features of organizational design or social networking help employees maintain relationships with weak ties...
2007 - 2009 Deliverables Report Out Description Objective: Define leading edge practices used to deliver innovative products and services, particularly with respect to Leadership, processes &...
January 01, 2010
During the first half of 2009, the Research & Technology Executive Council of the Corporate Executive Board interviewed and surveyed R&D executives ( 1 ) from over 100 global companies ( 2 )...
January 01, 2010
I was teaching an undergraduate math class in 1985 and decided to give the students a fun extra-credit assignment. “Find out what a googol is,” I told them. This was a time before the Internet and...
July 01, 2010
Since Henry Chesbrough published Open Innovation (2003), the paradigm he described has been a subject of great interest and experimentation in corporations. Chesbrough defined open innovation as...