The Hard Currency of Innovation In Extreme Times – Ideas
It’s all very well to talk about innovation in times like this. However innovation is intangible and intangibility is not what we need right now. Organizations need evidence, hard numbers that enable them to really understand how they are operating functionally on a daily basis. Yet it is the focus on the ideas that flow [...]
read moreEdward Tenner: Unintended consequences | Video on TED.com
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read moreThe Future of Corporate IT – How to Prepare for Five Radical Shifts in IT Value, Ownership, and Role
There is no shortage of analysis into the future of corporate IT. However, conventional wisdom misses the impact of external change and tacitly assumes that the basic shape and remit of the IT function will remain the same. In response, this research looks beyond technology trends to understand business, economic, and workforce changes that will [...]
read moreManaging Creativity from an Organizational Economics Perspective – A White Paper
This white paper supports the theory and practice behind the Management Innovation Index by exploring the organizational dilemma of intangibility in innovation and the consequences of ignoring it; proposing a case for a systems thinking approach to organizational creativity to drive measurable innovation; reviewing the importance of the emergence of the new field of organizational [...]
read moreOrganizational Economics and Management Education | MIT World Lecture – Robert Gibbons
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/144 About the Lecture In less than an hour, Robert Gibbons not only gets through 200 years of economic history, but outlines a new curriculum in organizational research planned by the Sloan School. Gibbons recounts some classic business stories – for instance, how Birds Eye’s success with frozen peas made the frozen food market “thick,” [...]
read moreThe Missing Link in Innovative Research – Booz & Company – Commercialise & Transformational Change
When the pipeline of technological breakthroughs has stalled, especially in industries like pharmaceuticals, midlevel managers may hold the key to R&D productivity by Anna Pettersson and August Vlak Despite continuous growth in R&D spending, many senior leaders remain deeply concerned about their organization’s ability to innovate. For example, the pharmaceutical industry has more than doubled [...]
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