Innovation

Create new markets for growth without destroying existing companies or jobs.

Too many applicants are screened out because they don't fit a particular pattern.

For starters, it’s not the same as operational effectiveness.

Firms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors,...

When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, in 1997, it had a conventional structure for a company of its size and scope. It was divided into business units, each...

For the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which...

Our ability to manage change hinges on our ability to manage ourselves, including our fears and anxieties.

While we know a lot about practices that stimulate new ideas, innovation teams often struggle to apply them. Why? Because people's biases and entrenched...

In the past few years, a new methodology for launching companies, called "the lean start-up," has begun to replace the old regimen. Traditionally, a venture's...

Despite a long-term decline in the circus industry, Cirque du Soleil profitably increased revenue twenty-two-fold over the last 10 years by reinventing...

It's too often misused and misunderstood.

Six months after Jobs’s death, the author of his best-selling biography identifies the practices that every CEO can try to emulate.

Three scenarios — and how to navigate them.

Tomorrow's leaders master three key roles - architect, bridger, and catalyst, or ABCs - to access the talent and tools they need to drive innovation and...

It assumes that breakthrough innovations will take years to develop.

Why is it so hard to build and maintain the capacity to innovate? The reason is not simply a failure to execute but a failure to articulate an innovation...

Companies that have what the authors call two-dimensional (2-D) diversity--their leaders exhibit both inherent and learned diversity traits--are much...

Research shows they’re more successful in three important ways.

Spoiler: Many people are doing it wrong.

In this article, co-authors B. Joseph Pine II and James Gilmore, founders of the management consulting firm Strategic Horizons, preview the likely characteristics...