March 01, 2011
Longhua, China, is a very new city that expresses a very old idea. A suburb of the city of Shenzhen, Longhua is home to 300,000 people, most of whom work for the same company. In fact, the...
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Organization
November 01, 2012
Over the past decade or so, a thriving trade has sprung up in innovation studies. Consultants and academics have in-vested hours in collecting case data and poring over performance indicators to...
May 01, 2012
On the night of October 9, 1604, Italian citizens recorded their astonishment that the universe had changed for the ï¬rst time in centuries. As they looked to the night sky, they found a new star had...
May 01, 2013
Michael J. Harsh is vice president and Chief Technology Ofï¬ cer for GE Healthcare. Mike began his career at GE in 1979 as an electrical design engineer in nuclear imaging; he holds numerous patents...
May 01, 2012
Any sufï¬ciently new technology involves the management of paradox. When a truly new and potentially disruptive capability meets existing organizational norms, the results often appear contradictory...
What is your balance between internal and external research? What is your company's balance between internal and external research (university projects, consortiums, government labs, established...
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?...
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...