Idea posted: April 2022
Institutions: University of St. Gallen University of Kassel
In a bid to increase the agility, quality, and speed of its product development process, companies are exploring with the use of external talent through crowdworking—a form of crowdsourcing in…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #819Idea posted: May 2021
Institutions: University of Cambridge Judge Business School Zhejiang University School of Management
Many companies struggle to keep up with today’s supercharged, constantly evolving competitive markets, where customers needs, products and technologies change at ever-increasing speed. An in-depth study of the global telecom…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #790Idea posted: August 2016
Institutions: ESADE University College Dublin Georgetown University McDonough School of Business
Developed in Japan, lean manufacturing introduced tools, processes and a mindset that eliminated waste and ensured the smooth flow of production without sacrificing quality. Kanban, a system that sounds the…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #616Idea posted: February 2016
Institutions: Ecole de Commerce et Management (EMD) MIT Sloan School of Management MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design
Megaprojects are large, technically complex, multi-year, billion-dollar (or more) engineering and financial ventures that somehow overcome challenges, turbulence, risk and resistance to eventually meet the needs for which they are…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #587Idea posted: October 2015
Institutions: Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Collaboration, either formal or discretionary (informally approaching others for guidance, information or assistance), is considered a virtue in today’s workplace. The advantages of collaboration are many, ranging from creativity and…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #552Idea posted: August 2015
Institutions: NUS Business School Technische Universität Darmstadt
Learning from errors is central to human development. Learning in a business context occurs best when there is a mind-set of acceptance of human error, and furthermore the experimental trials…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #545Idea posted: December 2014
Institutions: MIT Sloan School of Management Pepperdine University Graziadio School of Business and Management
Since 2005, the business units of California-based health care company Allergan has used cloud computing for a wide range of functions, from field sales effectiveness and travel and expense processing…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #465Idea posted: October 2014
Institutions: ESMT European School of Management and Technology Stanford Graduate School of Business
Crowdsourcing and social media channels have largely replaced the private channels between a lone individual and an organization with a public debate in which external contributors not only submit suggestions…
READ MORE PIN TO MY IDEAS Idea #455Idea posted: October 2014
Institutions: Tuck School of Business Boston University Questrom School of Business
How are organizational routines — routines in an organization that involve more than one individual — related to the effectiveness of an organizational design or redesign? Answering this question begins…
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