Idea posted: January 2016

Institutions: ESMT European School of Management and Technology   

The digital age creates a wide range of new opportunities for innovation. Examples include new marketing outlets through social media; ‘big data’ information on customers and the market; mobile devices…

Idea posted: September 2015

Institutions: University of Toronto Rotman School of Management    London Business School   

Two schools of thought exist on the best source of innovation. The foundational school argues that a deep, expert knowledge of the domain is required to unlock new pathways. Only…

Idea posted: March 2015

Institutions: Claremont Graduate University Drucker School of Management   

With the dominant, almost overwhelming impact that social media has on just about any function of a business, it’s easy to forget that social media is barely a decade old.…

Idea posted: January 2015

Institutions: NUS Business School   

The amount of data we generate today boggles the mind. As much as 90% of all data in the world today was created in the past 2 years, writes Keith…

Idea 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…

Idea posted: October 2014

Institutions: ESMT European School of Management and Technology    The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania   

Entrepreneurs innovating in the technology space often lack the know-how or “specialized complementary assets” within their companies to successfully commercialize their innovations. Consequently, to date, the academic literature on this…

Idea posted: September 2014

Institutions: Cranfield University School of Management   

Professionals in an organization — technical experts in a service organization, for example — will acquire best practices, solutions, resources, ideas and other knowledge as they develop responses to the…

Idea posted: May 2014

Institutions: INSEAD    University of British Columbia   

New products and technologies often fail to depose inferior ‘incumbents’. (The classic example is the Dvorak keyboard, which, despite being more efficient, lost out to the original QWERTY model in…

Idea posted: April 2014

Institutions: IMD    ESMT European School of Management and Technology   

In many organizations, IT is managed via a Chief Information Officer (CIO), who is given a budget and mandate and simply left to ‘get on with it!’ This may be…