Innovation Process

Giving people extra time and resources can boost innovation — but only if you match your “slack strategy” to employee type.

Businesses can innovate and thrive by nurturing a “creator” mindset.

Many companies overlook the potential of new applications for products they have sold for years.

People who are satisfied with the current way of doing business are not likely to transform it.

To facilitate speed, companies must design themselves to minimize obstacles to getting work done.

There’s a significant correlation between net profit growth and a corporate culture of innovation.

Disrupting the status quo is often valuable, but taken too far, it can lead to ethical crises.

Design thinking needs better alignment with the dynamics of established businesses.

Improving a company’s measurement of innovation requires a holistic view of its innovation process.

Digitization demands an unprecedented focus on cooperation and collaboration.

Fuse pairs engineers and scientists with providers and patients to improve health care.

Innovation success is the result of a deliberate search using key information signals.

Near-term expectations for additive manufacturing techniques are overoptimistic.

Free on-demand webinar with MIT SMR authors of “The Hard Truth About Business Model Innovation.”

For PepsiCo, entering the natural beverage market meant developing new risk management practices.

Successful business model innovation requires an understanding of how business models evolve.

When a group of industry leaders work together to find new solutions and products, who’s in charge?

What are the most effective ways to communicate the process and output of innovation to executives?

Highly capable firms are often reluctant to take risks, but they have much to gain if they try to innovate.

Open-innovation platforms, used thoughtfully, can expand a company’s access to analytics talent.