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Disruptive Innovation

Remembering Clayton Christensen and his Disruptive Impact

Clayton Christensen is best remembered for disruption theory—Clay's explanation for why great companies fail to respond effectively to new entrants with an offering at the "low end" of the market.

Innovation Capital

Lessons from Tesla's Approach to Innovation

Tesla has shifted the auto industry toward electric vehicles, achieved consistently growing revenues, and at the start of 2020 was the highest performing automaker, in terms of total return, sales growth and long-term shareholder value.

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Innovation Capital: The Secret Ingredient Behind the World's Most Innovative Leaders

What distinguishes the world's most effective leaders of innovation? It's not just being creative or the quality of their ideas.

INNOVATION GOVERNANCE

How We Rank The World's Most Innovative Leaders

Creating any type of ranking requires a thoughtful methodology—and none is perfect. We understand this concept quite well having created Forbes' World's Mo...

Innovation Governance

ServiceNow, Workday And Salesforce Are Driving Digital Transformation

Digital transformation. It's the hot topic in corporate America today. Executives are being told with increas...

Innovation Governance

How Does Amazon Stay At Day One?

Visit the office of Amazon's head of Devices, Dave Limp, and you may get an offer to look at a piece of corporate history: the original short documents draft...

Innovation Governance

Decoding Tesla's Secret Formula

The first thing you notice when you step onto Tesla Motors production floor are the robots. Eight-foot-tall bright-red bots that look like Transformers, huddling over each Model...

Innovation Capital

The Secret To Unleashing Genius

Amazon isn't an easy place to work. Its managers set steep goals, scrimp on budgets and expect long hours. But there aren't many better plac...

Innovation Capital

Crush the "I'm Not Creative" Barrier

Did you know that if you think you are creative, you're more likely to actually be creative? This surprising fact pops up again and again in our research. In our databa...

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How Being a Good Manager Can Make You a Bad Innovator

What does good management look like? We teach what we think are good management principles in literally thousands of business schools around the world.

Innovation Governance

Tesla's Innovations Are Transforming the Auto Industry

Tesla. The company name evokes very different yet equally strong responses from critics and fans. Critics argue Tesla loses money on each car sold.

Innovation Governance

To Make Money with Digital, Be an Innovator - Not a Strategist

For many companies considering how digital technologies could or should transform their business models, the questions they face are questions of unp...

Innovation Governance

How Innovative Leaders Maintain Their Edge

Since last year's inaugural list was published, we're often asked: "Why are some companies able to create and sustain a high innovation premium while others don't?"...

Innovation Capital

Choose the Right Innovation Method at the Right Time

In the industries plagued by the most uncertainty, how do companies hold on to their ability to innovate? And how do they achieve, and keep, an innovati...

Innovation Governance

Confusing Products and Platforms? A Tragic Error in the Digital Era

There has been an immense amount of speculation in light of Snap's IPO about the long-term viability of Snap...

Innovation Governance

How Godrej Became an Innovation Star

Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing is a 115-year-old company that sells consumer goods in India, most notably household appliances. For years it succ...

Innovation Capital

The Most Dangerous Myth About Disruption

These days it feels like disruptions are lurking around every corner. Disruptions occur when a new technology sweeps aside an old technology in a wave of "creative destru...

Innovation Governance

Leading Your Team Into the Unknown

Ask notable innovation leaders what they think about traditional management practices—say, those taught in a typical MBA program—and you get some pretty strong reactions...

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