Idea posted: May 2015

Institutions: Bocconi University Department of Management & Technology    Technische Universität München School of Management    MIT Sloan School of Management    SDA Bocconi School of Management   

Innovation is expected to come from the producer of the product. That’s the reason manufacturers have R&D departments. But more and more innovation is emerging not just from the producers…

Idea posted: May 2015

Institutions: École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)    Melbourne Business School-Mt Eliza Executive Education   

How successful are your innovation efforts? For many companies, proof of groundbreaking innovation comes in the form of patents. The question about research productivity is often answered by how many…

Idea posted: April 2015

Institutions: Duke University Fuqua School of Business    University of East Anglia   

In the early 1990s, large corporations started moving, slowly and almost imperceptibly at first, away from the kind of broad scientific research that led to such inventions as Nylon and…

Idea posted: March 2015

Institutions: North Carolina State University Poole College of Management    University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire   

The best companies are forward-looking. They are not only concerned with what customers want to buy today, but what they will want to buy in the future. A company’s ability…

Idea 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…

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: August 2014

Institutions: University of St. Gallen   

Traditional closed business models still dominate in today’s business world, but more and more companies are looking at the opportunities created through open collaboration and exchange with business model partners.…

Idea posted: August 2014

Institutions: University of St. Gallen   

It is hard to resist the pull of emerging markets, such as India and China. Given the immense population in such countries, even the small percentage of the total population…

Idea posted: July 2014

Institutions: University of Virginia Darden Business School   

Innovation through collaborative teams can succeed or fail in large part based on resources dedicated to the venture. While many factors may ultimately impact success or failure, all else being…