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…

Idea posted: February 2014

Institutions: Saïd Business School, University of Oxford    University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce    International Monetary Fund    Ohio State University Moritz College Of Law   

Investment banking was once regulated mainly by ‘reputational incentives’: bankers were motivated to act in the client’s best interests by concern for the bank’s good name. It was a system…

Idea posted: February 2014

Institutions: Northwestern University    University of Texas, Austin    Stanford University   

The ‘lure of the virtual’ has led many organizations to believe that one day not too far away, we will be able to accomplish with computers what has historically only…

Idea posted: January 2014

Institutions: University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School   

Crowdsourcing is an expression that describes the act of taking a task once performed by an internal employee or team, and outsourcing it to a large, undefined group of people…

Idea posted: December 2013

Institutions: Cranfield University School of Management   

What drives customers’ attitudes and behaviours? This is the golden question for marketing executives, who often rely on data from surveys, focus groups, interviews, etc., in the hopes of trying…

Idea posted: December 2013

Institutions: University of St. Gallen    IMD   

Discontinuous technologies refers to when new products are created that end up transforming existing markets, such as cloud computing, digital photography, 3D printing, online news, etc. Not surprisingly, they often…