Idea posted: February 2016

Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)   

Whether developing new products or services, refining internal processes, or creating disruptive business models, innovation is the key to sustained competitive advantage. Many companies, however, are unable to meet their…

Idea 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…

Idea posted: February 2016

Institutions: Saïd Business School, University of Oxford    King's College London    Warwick University Business School   

Transforming academic research from pure knowledge into real-world business or organizational practices is challenging for a wide variety of reasons. Time is an issue. Business unit or organizational leaders have…

Idea posted: February 2016

Institutions: Saïd Business School, University of Oxford   

The word ‘scenarios’ has many different meanings in a variety of fields and disciplines. In strategic planning, scenarios refer to a small set of carefully structured and tailored narratives about the future…

Idea posted: January 2016

Institutions: Tel Aviv University    University of Michigan Ross School of Business   

Intuitively, respectful relationships and creativity are assets of a successful company. Respectful relationships lead to more effective collaboration, while creativity leads to new, competitive ideas. Business leaders might not realize,…

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: October 2015

Institutions: University of Toronto Rotman School of Management    MIT Sloan School of Management   

Google was famous for its 20% free innovation time policy. Google employees were allowed to spend 20% of their time in the office to pursue any personal interests and ideas…

Idea posted: September 2015

Institutions: INSEAD    Harvard Business School    Columbia Business School   

Is sarcasm in the workplace as destructive as usually assumed? While sarcasm — in which people express one thing by saying the exact opposite — is rampant in organizations, most…

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…