March 01, 2012
Innovation culture is a poorly understood aspect of innovation management. What enables some companies to drive breakthrough innovation consistently while others languish despite heroic efforts?...
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Organization
March 01, 2012
One of the most difï¬cult aspects of managing innovation and R&D is the sheer number of lateral relationships that are necessary for success. Leaders of R&D need to manage relationships with...
January 01, 2013
The Cases of Novartis and ETH Zurich OVERVIEW: R&D units are often structured by product or by scientiï¬c discipline. In either case, organizational boundaries impede horizontal information...
March 01, 2014
I have spent the majority of my career outside the United States, in a mix of technology-oriented and business-related roles. Like many people in DuPont, I started in the company as a scientist,...
May 01, 2015
Breakthrough innovation in established companies is particularly difï¬cult, in part because breakthrough innovation requires a very different culture to sustain it than does incremental innovation...
May 01, 2015
Changing an accepted organizational culture can feel like rolling rocks uphill. It can seem impossible to escape the inertia built up over decades of accrued behavior and entrenched beliefs. Yet an...