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A User’s Guide to Open Strategy
Strategy Digital ArticleA framework for opening up your company’s strategy process to outside participants without giving away your game plan. -
Managing Performance When It's Hard to Measure
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleYou need an individualized approach. -
The New Corporate Garage
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThe innovation revolution spurred by venture capitalists decades ago has created the conditions in which scale enables big companies to shift from shackling... -
Revolutionary Ideas
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The Hidden Pitfall of Innovation Prizes
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleWhy winner-take-all prize structures increase churn among participants. -
Lessons on Customer Engagement from Fan Controlled Football
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThe esports venture uses blockchain to let fans call the shots in real time. -
How Biometrics Are Transforming the Customer Experience
Innovation Digital ArticleAs technology like facial recognition becomes more pervasive, companies need to prioritize privacy and security. -
Innovating in Uncertain Times: Lessons from 2022
Technology & Operations Digital ArticlePlus strategies for driving transformative growth in 2023. -
How Yahoo Betrayed Its Users by Doing What They Asked
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleUnderstanding the outrage of Flickr users. -
IDEO's CEO, Sandy Speicher, Asks: What Is an Office Even For Now?
Global Business Digital ArticleGive people a reason-not a regulation-to come in to the office. -
What Makes a Great Leader?
Management VideoToday, it's less about getting people to follow you to the future, more about getting them to co-create it with you. Harvard Business School's Linda A.... -
Remote Work Has Opened the Door to a New Approach to Hiring
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThe "open talent" model is suited to a future that increasingly prioritizes flexibility.
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InnoCentive.com (A), Spanish Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details InnoCentive.com, a firm connecting R&D labs of large organizations to diverse external solvers through innovation contests, has to decide if they will... -
The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance
TODAY'S LEADERS KNOW THAT SPEED and agility are the keys to any company's success, and yet many are frustrated that their organizations can't move fast... -
Greenyard Frozen: Developing Cauliflower Rice as an Open Innovation Project for Sustainability
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details On March 14, 2019, the convenience business unit manager of Greenyard Frozen was in his Roeselare, Belgium office preparing for a management meeting that... -
Ideas and Not Solutions: Enabling Innovation through Internal Crowdsourcing in the Tata Group
Management Case Study8.95View Details Ravi Arora, Vice President (Group Innovation), Tata Sons Private Limited, and his Group Innovation team initially faced difficulty when introducing the... -
GreedyGame: Leveraging Online-Gaming for Brand Storytelling
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Founded in 2015, GreedyGame Media Pvt. Ltd. (GreedyGame) had a mission to develop culturally relevant gaming content into which ads could be seamlessly... -
BT Group: Managing Global Open Innovation
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Jean-Marc Frangos, Managing Director of Products & Services Research and Open Innovation at BT Group is looking to optimize the London-based telcom company's... -
CIBC: Internalizing Open Innovation
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In early 2017, the vice-president, Enterprise Innovation, at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), one of Canada's leading banks, encountered roadblocks... -
Sustainability Through Open Innovation: Carlsberg and the Green Fiber Bottle
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The case follows Danish brewer Carlsberg as it develops the Green Fiber Bottle, a beer bottle made of wood pulp, in collaboration with a startup, a small-to-medium... -
OpenIDEO (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details In the midst of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic was unfolding, OpenIDEO - an online open innovation platform focused on design-driven solutions to social... -
SOFWERX: Innovation at U.S. Special Operations Command
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details James "Hondo" Geurts, the Acquisition Executive for U.S. Special Operations Command was in the middle of his Senate confirmation hearing in 2017 to become... -
Lynk Biotech: Open Innovation Project Management
Innovation & Leadership Case Study8.95View Details The case is set in July 2020, when Lynk Biotech (Lynk), a pharmaceutical research company based in Singapore is facing the dilemma of designing new products... -
SOFWERX: Innovation at U.S. Special Operations Command (Abridged)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details James "Hondo" Geurts, the Acquisition Executive for U.S. Special Operations Command was in the middle of his Senate confirmation hearing in 2017 to become... -
Building a Unified Collaboration Strategy at Genpact: SolutionXchange and Beyond
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Genpact launched SolutionXchange with the goal of bringing together clients and industry experts to collaborate in solving business process management... -
Havas: Change Faster, Multimedia Case
Sales & Marketing Tool25.00View Details As of 2013, Havas was the 6th largest global advertising, digital, and communications group in the world. Headquartered in Paris, France, the group was... -
Curana: Managing Open Innovation for Growth in SMEs (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case W17559. -
Leading Open Innovation at BT
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details This case focuses on the genesis and development of the open innovation unit at BT, the strategic value of the unit, and its operating model. As business... -
Open Innovation at Fujitsu (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case study examines the open innovation journey at Fujitsu, a global information and communication technology company. The case ends with the location... -
Corporate Entrepreneurship at Enagas: Transforming from the Inside Out
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In September 2017, Fernando Impuesto, Commercial and Technical Services Director at Madrid-based natural gas infrastructure company Enagas, was offered... -
Xiaomi 2015: A Homegrown Apple in China?
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The Xiaomi case explores how this Chinese startup leveraged ubiquitous connectivity and open innovation to revolutionize the mobile phone industry in... -
Jaga: Managing Creativity and Open Innovation (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In 2007, the owner and director of marketing and research and development at Jaga was preparing for a meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss...
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Innovation Sourcing Excellence: Three Purchasing Capabilities for Success
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleInnovation sourcing has become more critical across many industries. As global value chains have become more fragmented, change and opportunity comes... -
Tackling Societal Challenges with Open Innovation
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleOpen innovation includes external knowledge sources and paths to market as complements to internal innovation processes. Open innovation has to date been... -
InnoCentive.com (A), Spanish Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details InnoCentive.com, a firm connecting R&D labs of large organizations to diverse external solvers through innovation contests, has to decide if they will... -
Open Innovation for Wicked Problems: Using Proximity to Overcome Barriers
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleOpen innovation is a viable strategy to solve wicked problems. However, the complexity of these types of problems renders the management of open innovation... -
The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance
TODAY'S LEADERS KNOW THAT SPEED and agility are the keys to any company's success, and yet many are frustrated that their organizations can't move fast... -
"Kickboxing" Around the World: An Intrapreneurship Revolution?, Teaching Note
Management Digital ArticleTeaching note for case SCG595. -
IP Modularity: Profiting from Innovation by Aligning Product Architecture with Intellectual Property
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleFirms seeking to take advantage of distributed innovation and outsourcing can bridge the tension between value creation and value capture by modifying... -
Greenyard Frozen: Developing Cauliflower Rice as an Open Innovation Project for Sustainability
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details On March 14, 2019, the convenience business unit manager of Greenyard Frozen was in his Roeselare, Belgium office preparing for a management meeting that... -
A User’s Guide to Open Strategy
Strategy Digital ArticleA framework for opening up your company’s strategy process to outside participants without giving away your game plan. -
Managing Performance When It's Hard to Measure
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleYou need an individualized approach.