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Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive
Innovation Magazine ArticleCreate new markets for growth without destroying existing companies or jobs. -
Stop Eliminating Perfectly Good Candidates by Asking Them the Wrong Questions
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleToo many applicants are screened out because they don't fit a particular pattern. -
What Is Strategy?
Strategy Magazine ArticleFor starters, it’s not the same as operational effectiveness. -
Know Your Customers' "Jobs to Be Done"
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleFirms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors,... -
How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen 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... -
What Is Disruptive Innovation?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which... -
Change Management Requires a Change Mindset
Change management Digital ArticleOur ability to manage change hinges on our ability to manage ourselves, including our fears and anxieties. -
Why Design Thinking Works
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleWhile we know a lot about practices that stimulate new ideas, innovation teams often struggle to apply them. Why? Because people's biases and entrenched... -
Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIn 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... -
Blue Ocean Strategy
Competitive strategy Magazine ArticleCompeting in overcrowded industries is no way to sustain high performance. The real opportunity is to create blue oceans of uncontested market space. -
A Refresher on Statistical Significance
Analytics and data science Digital ArticleIt’s too often misused and misunderstood. -
Understanding China
Global Business SpotlightThis package begins with "What the West Gets Wrong About China," by Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, which discusses three fundamental misconceptions:... -
The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe author, whose biography of Steve Jobs was an instant best seller after the Apple CEO's death in October 2011, sets out here to correct what he perceives... -
How Generative AI Could Disrupt Creative Work
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleThree scenarios - and how to navigate them. -
What Makes a Great Leader?
Leadership & Managing People Big IdeaTomorrow's leaders master three key roles - architect, bridger, and catalyst, or ABCs - to access the talent and tools they need to drive innovation and... -
McKinsey’s Three Horizons Model Defined Innovation for Years. Here’s Why It No Longer Applies.
Disruptive innovation Digital ArticleIt assumes that breakthrough innovations will take years to develop. -
You Need an Innovation Strategy
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleWhy 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... -
How Diversity Can Drive Innovation
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleCompanies that have what the authors call two-dimensional (2-D) diversity--their leaders exhibit both inherent and learned diversity traits--are much... -
Why Diverse Teams Are Smarter
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleResearch shows they’re more successful in three important ways. -
A Refresher on A/B Testing
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleSpoiler: Many people are doing it wrong.
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To Solve a Tough Problem, Reframe It
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleFive steps to ensure that you don’t jump to solutions -
What Innovators Who Create New Markets Do Differently
Business history Digital ArticleThree mindsets that lead to “nondisruptive creation.” -
A Sports Analogy for Understanding Different Ways to Use AI
AI and machine learning Digital ArticleWill next-gen tools be used as a steroid, sneaker, or coach? -
5 Ways Marketing and Sales Leaders Can Embrace GenAI
Sales and marketing Digital ArticleA survey of over 600 business leaders from large U.S. companies suggests they’ve been reluctant to do so. -
Preparing for Your Next Career Move
Balancing work and family Digital ArticleHow to assess your priorities in a job search. -
4 Ways Silicon Valley Changed How Companies Are Run
Organizational culture Digital ArticleAnd what legacy companies can learn from their success. -
What Leaders Need to Know About Spatial Computing
Technology and analytics Digital ArticleHow it could change our relationships with tech, and how companies can prepare. -
Research: How Creative Collaboration Can Strengthen Relationships
Creativity Digital ArticleIt can reduce rudeness and make people feel more connected — but only under certain conditions. -
The “Piggyback” Approach to Innovation
Innovation Digital ArticleThis tactic can help organizations diversify sources of revenue, improve products’ appeal, and create entirely new businesses. -
How Corporate Purpose Leads to Innovation
Innovation Digital ArticleThe best innovations reinforce the company’s purpose and create mutual value for its key constituents. -
A Step-by-Step Guide to Real-Time Pricing
Pricing strategy Magazine ArticleAn advanced AI model considers much more than what competitors are charging. -
Harness Your Network to Unlock Innovation
Innovation Magazine ArticleThree practices can help. -
Unexpected Interruptions Can Boost Creativity
Innovation Magazine ArticleOur minds can keep working on a task when we step away from it. -
Adobe’s CEO on Making Big Bets on Innovation
Technology and analytics Magazine ArticleThe company’s shift to Creative Cloud was an entirely new way to engage existing clients and attract new ones. -
Keep Your AI Projects on Track
AI and machine learning SpotlightMost go off course. To make sure yours succeed, consider these five steps. -
What's Your Gen AI Strategy?
Management Digital ArticleThis issue's spotlight explores the intersection of people and technology in the workplace, looking specifically at robots, brain wearables, and human-like... -
Get More Funding for Your R&D Initiatives
Innovation Digital ArticleToo often, companies do a poor job of making innovation transparent to investors. -
Is Your Job AI Resilient?
AI and machine learning Digital ArticleAn analysis spanning more than 160 million U.S. jobs, 20 industries, and 800 occupations. -
Moving Beyond Stage-Gate Project Management
Project management Digital ArticleTraditional approaches don’t lead to breakthrough innovations. -
10 Beliefs That Get in the Way of Organizational Change
Organizational change Digital ArticleAddress some of the common assumptions that may be holding your team back.
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Business Process Transformation at the CIA (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details When Dick Calder is named head of the CIA's Directorate of Administration (DA) in 1995, he faces the task of leading a beleaguered organization through... -
Business Process Transformation at the CIA (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details When Dick Calder is named head of the CIA's Directorate of Administration (DA) in 1995, he faces the task of leading a beleaguered organization through... -
reMarkable: e-Writing the Future
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Magnus Wanberg is the creator of reMarkable, a breakthrough e-writer device set apart from similar products on the market by having solved the frustrating... -
Gong Cha's Return to Singapore: Rebuilding a Popular Bubble Tea Franchise
Management Case Study8.95View Details The case describes the relaunch of the popular bubble tea franchise Gong Cha in Singapore in December 2017. This was seven months after its 80 outlets... -
Innovation at Volkswagen: The Story of Digital:Lab
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The case follows the design and creation of a software innovation lab at Volkswagen. Particular issues explored include the role and structure of internal... -
Change at Whirlpool Corp. (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
GE Money Bank: The M-Budget Card Initiative
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details The M-Budget Card case study is about mastering the challenges of an exploratory strategic initiative in a context marked by time pressure and frequent... -
Sustainability and Innovation: Frameworks, Concepts, and Tools for Product and Strategy Redesign
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This technical note introduces the concepts and terms entrepreneurial innovators use in addressing sustainability. It explores the evolution of such terms... -
Four Products: Predicting Diffusion
Sales & Marketing Case Study6.95View Details One of the critical tasks in the marketing of new innovations is predicting demand and rates of diffusion for those products. Focuses on four innovative... -
elBulli: The Taste of Innovation
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Ferran Adrià, chef at elBulli, the highest-ranked restaurant in the world for two consecutive years, faces two related decisions. First, Adrià and his... -
Zappos.com (A): Bring the Shoe Store to Your Home
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This is the first part of two-case series of Zappos's blue ocean strategic move as an innovative online shoe retailer. Part A focuses on how Zappos reconstructed... -
Idea Generation and Selection: The Alternative Use Exercise, Handout
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Handout supplement for case UV7313. -
Fintech and Finance Transformation: The Rise of Ant Financial
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details This case presents the phenomenal rise of Ant Financial Services, which started as Alipay, and has since grown to become the world's largest Fintech company.... -
Identifying Opportunities Ladders: A Tool from "The Innovator's Guide to Growth"
6.95View Details Jobs-based thinking illuminates opportunities to innovate in the marketplace. These opportunities stem primarily from identifying jobs for which existing... -
DBS Transformation (A): Becoming a World-Class Multinational Bank
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case series examines the two stage transformation of DBS 2009- 2017. In both stages the bank places the customer as the centre of its thinking about... -
Innovating Singapore's Chicken Rice
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case is set in November 2020. Lao Hung Jia (LHJ) was a progressive chicken rice hawker stall that had embraced digital transformation and open innovation... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Risk (with bonus article "Managing 21st-Century Political Risk" by Condoleezza Rice and Amy Zegart)
Strategy & Execution BookIs your business playing it safe--or taking the right risks? If you read nothing else on managing risk, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds... -
Ford vs. GM: The Evolution of Mass Production (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details This case explores the very different paths taken by the Ford Motor Company and the General Motors Corporation in the first three decades of the twentieth... -
Prodigy Network: Democratizing Real Estate Design and Financing
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details This case follows Rodrigo Nino, founder and CEO of commercial real estate development company Prodigy Network, as he develops an equity-based crowdfunding...
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Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive
Innovation Magazine ArticleCreate new markets for growth without destroying existing companies or jobs. -
Stop Eliminating Perfectly Good Candidates by Asking Them the Wrong Questions
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleToo many applicants are screened out because they don't fit a particular pattern. -
What Is Strategy?
Strategy Magazine ArticleFor starters, it’s not the same as operational effectiveness. -
Know Your Customers' "Jobs to Be Done"
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleFirms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors,... -
How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen 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... -
What Is Disruptive Innovation?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which... -
Change Management Requires a Change Mindset
Change management Digital ArticleOur ability to manage change hinges on our ability to manage ourselves, including our fears and anxieties. -
Why Design Thinking Works
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleWhile we know a lot about practices that stimulate new ideas, innovation teams often struggle to apply them. Why? Because people's biases and entrenched... -
Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIn 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... -
Blue Ocean Strategy
Competitive strategy Magazine ArticleCompeting in overcrowded industries is no way to sustain high performance. The real opportunity is to create blue oceans of uncontested market space.