Innovation Process

Open innovation requires moving knowledge across divides. Organizational silos are the biggest barriers to success.

Digital collaboration can steer innovators down a disruptive or incremental path, depending on how they use the tools.

Organizations need to take a new approach to governance of digital innovation initiatives.

Research finds fear of failure could keep an innovator from launching a new creative endeavor after an early success.

Research suggests leaders should focus on a use case for cutting-edge technologies first, then develop a business case.

Leaders can improve the odds of design-thinking success by first ensuring that their organization is prepared for it.

L’Oréal’s Stéphane Lannuzel discusses artificial intelligence’s role in technology innovation in the beauty industry.

Sanofi’s Frank Nestle explains how the pharma company is using AI to improve drug discovery and development.

Leaders must answer eight questions to successfully tackle innovation’s toughest trade-offs.

Leaders must answer eight questions to successfully tackle innovation’s toughest trade-offs.

New research upends the assumption that criticism always impedes creative brainstorming.

Delivering enterprise applications can be tough and time-consuming — and growing demand for faster delivery makes the job even more challenging.

MIT SMR‘s winter 2022 issue looks at innovation processes in product development and how networks affect culture and diversity.

Reimagining dense office spaces, evolving brand relationships, and accelerating ideation with prototyping tools.

Tools used for rapid prototyping can speed product development when used for idea generation.

To get more from their innovation efforts, businesses must first determine what type of change they want to achieve.

A global study of online hackathons offers best practices for designing virtual ideation sessions.

Will Grannis of Google Cloud explains the organization’s collaborative approach to AI and machine learning innovation.

Making diversity and inclusion real, clarifying pandemic data, and how Amazon will innovate post-Bezos.

Sustaining innovation when a visionary founder steps down requires that all employees be given the license to innovate.