Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In the creative economy, innovation is more important than ever. For industry incumbents, the problem isn't a lack of resources or a shortage of human creativity, but a dearth of pro-innovation values, processes and practices. Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.

Innovation 15

Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Why not make an opposite set of assumptions, that our most human characteristics — imagination, creativity — will appear in new guises to save ourselves, our jobs, and even democracy? Rather than being victims of uncontrollable forces, we can use our imaginations and creativity to create the future.

Health Care 15

Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

In our work at Change Logic, we’re finding again and again that established leadership practices, corporate cultures and identities, and organizational structures are far bigger obstacles to successful innovation than whether or not you can train a small and talented group to identify and prove market traction of a minimum viable offering.

Company 8

Company Advertising Business Model Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Similarly, Intuit realized over a decade ago that it could not continue to grow as simply a financial software firm and began to consciously create, acquire, and incubate new businesses.

Business Model 8

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. Many tech companies have experimented with giving employees unstructured time to explore new ideas such as LinkedIn’s InCubator, Apple’s Blue Sky and Microsoft’s Garage.

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

If this new crop of Chief Innovation Officers, company-bred venture capitalists, and creative catalysts can’t prove that they’re moving the needle on things that actually matter to their employer, their jobs will almost certainly evaporate. Beneath that question is a very real worry. Alignment can take a while. The vision thing.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Why not make an opposite set of assumptions, that our most human characteristics — imagination, creativity — will appear in new guises to save ourselves, our jobs, and even democracy? Rather than being victims of uncontrollable forces, we can use our imaginations and creativity to create the future.

Health Care 8

Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Then rapid improvement in cell phone technology combined with sharp reductions in cost opened up massive new markets that existing terrestrial business telecommunications companies had missed. We organized these initiatives around small venture units, incubating them separately (and far away) from existing businesses.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

This has been an explosive summer — markets in turmoil, cities in flames, politics in meltdown. So it's a relief to enjoy and learn from an explosion of a different sort — the explosion of creativity taking place this August in Edinburgh, Scotland, at the renowned Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Who markets each event?

Creativity 8

Creativity Participative Audience Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

But studies show that being exposed to different perspectives and ideas spurs creativity. Mario Chamorro, a growth marketer in San Francisco, knows how important it is to treat employees fairly. “Both creative, dorky, and outgoing.” He says his approach to leadership has evolved.

Management 10

Management Video Team Case Study 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

IBM Watson’s progress in the health care market is a significant example and driver of the transformation, providing big lessons to IBM and to every large company that must disrupt its own business — or watch competitors do it first. Record so far: IBM has a long history of incubating new businesses (e.g.,

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups. As a result, top founders prefer independent, noncorporate accelerators, and, to date, no corporate accelerator has truly accomplished incubating world-class startups. Top startups already have market leading solutions.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

These products are all held up as legendary examples of the power of intrapreneurship — entrepreneurial creativity and innovation within large, established organizations. It’s been promoted to workers as a way to capture the creativity and excitement of entrepreneurship, but with more resources and less risk.

Incubator 8

Incubator Innovation Strategic Planning Human Resources 8