Interviews with 50 leaders across industries provide insight into how to nurture the right ideas.

New business opportunities stem from understanding the full landscape of 'jobs' that people are trying to get done on a daily basis. The authors begin...

The automotive press has been relentlessly critical of Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne - savior of Chrysler and Italy's auto industry - about Fiat's return...

Perhaps Thorsten Heins has longed to run a big, public company. But probably the dream didn't look like this. Heins, the new CEO of Research in Motion...

Management consulting is an industry built on facts. A “fact-based decision” (a phrase that returns 1.8 million Google results) requires legions of analysts to gather and crunch data, and it so happens that consulting firms supply precisely such people. Facts appear to de-politicize decisions, imposing objectivity and facilitating difficult choices. Who but an imbecile could […]

When stock markets gyrate and growth prospects darken, it’s tempting to rein in innovation programs and hoard cash. The S&P 500 did exactly that during the Great Recession, increasing their cash levels by over 50% to nearly $1 trillion today. As it looked like the economic storm clouds were dissipating (ah, the good old days…) […]

Partner relentlessly, or do it yourself? New ventures face this question early on, whether they are housed inside big corporations or small start-ups. A lot of business literature advocates teaming up wherever possible to open the doors to new ideas, draw on the unique strengths of others, and speed time to market. So why have […]

Faced with an eroding core business, most companies seem to do...nothing. In the media and entertainment industry, look at Blockbuster's lackluster embrace...

This post is part of Creating a Customer-Centered Organization. If American companies are to grow their way out of the doldrums, they will need to show some of the imagination of upstarts. Consider Zipcar, whose recent IPO valued the 11-year old company at over $1 billion. The company came from nowhere into a rental car […]