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'The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.' --Alvin Toffler We have been living in a time of accelerating disruption, but the disruption caused by the coronavirus [...]

'Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.' --Karl Marx There is one prediction among many that rings true to me about the disruptive effects of the [...]

One day, Amazon will fail. --Jeff Bezos I was watching You've Got Mail the other day, that not-so-old movie that had as its backdrop the creative destruction of the corner [...]

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognise ability. --Robert Half The entire business of assessing professionals' talents is fraught [...]

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. --Richard Feynman In Shakespearean literature, the court jester is the only person [...]

Patents have been a cornerstone of our economic system; their continued existence has been justified on the basis of their importance in driving innovation. However, recent studies by Jim Bessen [...]

Patrick Whitney with Jim Euchner Patrick Whitney has worked with leaders of some of the most innovative companies to integrate design into their innovation processes. In this interview, he shares [...]

The potential of design practice to dramatically increase the success of breakthrough innovation in corporations has been demonstrated by a few leading companies. The tools of design, however, are not [...]

An increasing number of manufacturing firms have made the transition from a product-oriented business model to one led by advanced services, a process Tim Baines calls 'servitization'. In this interview, [...]

Rick Miller talks with James Euchner about the state of undergraduate engineering education and what we need to do to attract and motivate the engineers of the future. Rick Miller [...]

Innovation is a specific function of executive leadership. It requires the ability to make connections that create business opportunities and the willingness to take risks. But it also requires capabilities [...]

Everyone seems to agree that effective portfolio management is a key to driving results from R&D. Most organizations have a set of tools and practices for managing their portfolio. However, [...]

Many people have remarked on the contrast in new business innovation between start-ups and established corporations. With their resources and assets, large companies should be more innovative, but major new [...]

Eric von Hippel has been studying innovation by users for over 30 years. His book The Sources of Innovation (1994) documented the degree to which users were responsible for functionally [...]

Jane Stevenson has placed chief innovation officers, growth-oriented CEOs, and other innovation leaders at many companies. She also consults with leadership teams and boards about the skills they need to [...]

Companies have struggled with globalization on many levels. A particular difficulty has been developing products for emerging markets. In their new book, Reverse Innovation, Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble take [...]

Roger Martin has been studying what it takes to create breakthrough innovation for many years. In that time, he has become frustrated by the increasingly heavy reliance on analytics in [...]

'When digital transformation is done right, it's like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, but when done wrong, all you have is a really fast caterpillar.' --George Westerman, MIT Sloan [...]

If everything seems under control, you 're not going fast enough. --Mario Andretti On February 17, a 21-car pileup interrupted the final laps of the Daytona 500. A mega-wreck like [...]

The real risk with Al isn 7 malice but competence. A super intelligent AI will be extremely good at accomplishing its goals, and if those goals aren't aligned with ours, [...]

If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution. --Albert Einstein (attributed) I worked [...]

Change before you have to. --Jack Welch I moved recently and, as a result, had occasion to go through boxes of old papers that had been buried in my basement [...]

'Differences of opinion should be tolerated. But not when they are too different. For then he becomes a subversive mother.' --Miss America in Woody Allen's Bananas Early in my career, [...]

'A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path and was trampled, and the birds of the sky ate it up. [...]

'Let me speak frankly: the advantage of innovation for multinational companies has shrunk substantially since the early 2000s. ' --Professor Hengyuan Zhu, Tsinghua University I was invited to visit China [...]