May 01, 2020
Online-based retailers have made competing in the physical retail industry increasingly challenging. Building strong experiences to differentiate from the online-based players is key to survival...
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May 01, 2020
The retail grocery sector is not a leader in new product development due to inherent innovation risks and retailers’ complex relationships with suppliers. Product co-innovation is an effective way to...
May 01, 2020
For artificial intelligence (AI) technology to impact society positively, the major AI companies must coordinate their efforts and agree on safe practices. The social legitimacy of AI development...
March 01, 2020
Clay Christensen (1952–2020) was a giant in the field of innovation. The Innovator’s Dilemma remains one of the best books on innovation that I have ever read. It is both theoretically rigorous and...
May 01, 2020
More and more firms are looking to megatrends to try to ascertain an unfolding future and plan strategy for the long term. The idea seems to be to take a megatrend, find a subtrend within it, and...
May 01, 2020
Historians suggest crowdsourcing dates as far back as 1714 when the British government offered £20,000 to solve “The Longitude Problem,” which made sailing dangerous and caused thousands of seamen to...
May 01, 2020
As a corporate artist, Steve Harrold provides visual creations and contexts for Boeing. When I graduated high school in 1960, I wanted to be an illustrator. But I was hired at an IBM manufacturing...
March 01, 2020
Innovation is always an act of creativity and insight. Isn’t it? The prevalent stereotype for innovative thinking is that of a creative and often iconoclastic individual who can recognize an...
March 01, 2020
I have an unconventional background for a chief scientist at a major laboratory of the United States Army: I was born and raised in the Soviet Union. In 1980, I came to the United States as a refugee...
March 01, 2020
In today’s data-driven world, companies’ half-hearted embrace of risk analytics for innovation projects means, at best, they forego an opportunity to maximize shareholder value and, at worst, they...
March 01, 2020
Performance measurement systems are a fundamental concern for R&D managers and executives. The main challenge is ensuring that R&D managers can match organizational key performance indicators...
March 01, 2020
Innovation is always an act of creativity and insight. Isn’t it? The prevalent stereotype for innovative thinking is that of a creative and often iconoclastic individual who can recognize an...
April 08, 2020
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April 17, 2020
*We received multiple similar responses, so we have listed all answers in aggregate below: Wellness checks: Temperature checks upon arrival. Every person coming to the lab completes a wellness...
May 01, 2020
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June 02, 2020
Our organization has struggled with the effects of social media because many customers are relying on information that may be incorrect or misleading. Please take a minute and let us know how your...