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Crowdsourcing, which refers to companies' aproach in using consumer, employee and public insights, is a growing trend that helps businesses achieve innovations. Details on crowdsourcing strategies and innovations by several companies are discussed.

The impact of human resource management in development of sustainable organizations is analyzed. Details on the need for human resource practices that support innovative management, environmental management and cultural diversity are discussed.

A business may evolve from a one-person business with an innovative idea to grow into a large conglomerate. On this journey, the business goes through many cycles: loss or profit, [...]

Strategos Chmn Gary Hamel discusses institutionalizing innovation in corporations to create wealth. Hamel believes companies must develop an innovation process and wrote 'Leading the Revolution' to examine the issue of developing a post-industrial corporate structure.

Education is an enabler of change, but it needs to be delivered in a manner that really increases individual talent, skills, and abilities to think 'outside the box.'

Promoting creative thinking is seen as an essential part of knowledge crafting and factors to be considered in planning include information systems, networking, crafting knowledge, sharing and integrating knowledge, new measures and new processes. There should be further research into the development, deployment and utility of knowledge tools within organizations and researchers will be tasked with determining the abovementioned factors.

We expect facilities to do many things: to promote sales, welcome guests, appeal to clients, and increase productivity. Yet, how can interior design inspire the building's occupants to create and […]

'History teaches that innovation does not come about by central planning. If it did, Silicon Valley would be nearer to Moscow than to San Francisco.' Tom Kelley, The Art of [...]

How To Evaluate An Idea 'Will this idea work?' Getting an answer to that poser is frequently as hard as dreaming up the idea itself. Yet, an idea is worth [...]

Two case studies are presented to provide scenarios on how alternative future worlds provide opportunities for creative thinking and innovation in organizations. Findings suggest constraints and possibilities with regard to what an organization has experienced and what scenarios are relevant to future conditions.

Why is it that a recent Business Week cover story on the world's most innovative companies did not mention any banks? The problem is that only a small number of [...]

Need an antidote to the steady stream of layoff and red-ink announcements? Turn to our '20 in their 20s' section in this issue. We set out to find 20 of [...]

A case study of a large Australian manufacturing firm is used to illustrate the connection between quality management and innovation performance. Topics include the appropriation of total quality management principles from manufacturing areas and adapting them for use in development and design areas.

The interest in econometrics has been primarily directed at the effects of promotional activities rather than changes in a market structure. Much of the modelling of markets has been directed [...]

Q: I've been told that, to be creative and innovative, I must learn to use the other side of my brain. What does that mean? A. To be truly creative, [...]

How companies can foster creativity in the workplace GREATER MEFROPLEX -- It's the stuff of Clich[acute{e}]-laden CEO speeches: encouraging creativity among the troops. Fostering innovation. Building a better mousetrap. But [...]

Entrepreneurs are often independent and creative types who start businesses but do not want to manage them.

Bill Lundwig, executive creative director at IPG's Campbell-Ewald, unwinds a satisfied smile when he remembers how C-E and its client, Chevrolet, 'owned' a Daytona 500 race a few years by [...]

In October 1994, then finance minister Paul Martin released a document entitled 'A New Framework for Economic Policy.' In the introduction to the paper, he stated: 'the framework will guide [...]

Innovation is the quickest, most effective, most lucrative path to success. Waiting for another firm to introduce a product and then playing catch up may be fine if you are [...]

This article presents nine principles for rengineering the pratice of business management. The author developed hisprinciple drom a study of leading companies that are adjusting to the present economy.

RackForce Networks Inc. is a data-storage company based in Kelowna, British Columbia, which is isolated from large population areas. The company saw advantages with its location, which has access to cheap power and is in a stable geological area. The example shows that challenges can lead to business creativity.

Creativity guru John Kao says the U.S. is complacent when it comes to business. He talks about how entrepreneurs should think innovatively in terms of big changes.

IN 1905, ALBERT EINSTEIN, THEN A 26-YEAR old patent clerk, published four research papers that reshaped physics. In one paper, "Through the Measurement of Brownian Motion in a Glass of […]

Introducing new methods and ideas in the workplace is discussed.

UK human resource managers must work with other departments to create new knowledge and achieve corporate objectives.