Leading Blog
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Entrepreneurs can avoid false starts by undertaking a thorough and thoughtful design process before commencing engineering work. Crowdfunding campaigns may demonstrate a product’s appeal to product category enthusiasts, but they don’t provide data on mass-market demand. How much innovation is too much? False Positives.
The Horizons Tracker
APRIL 28, 2022
Famous research from Stanford’s Nicholas Bloom illustrates the difficulties we face in keeping the wheels of innovation turning. Bloom illustrates that while we’re spending more on research and innovation than ever before, we’re getting diminishing returns for that investment. Engines of creation.
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Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
In prior blog posts, we have described how Western multinationals such as Xerox and GE are embracing polycentric innovation by sourcing more R&D capabilities from emerging markets such as India and China and integrating them into a synergistic global innovation network. in close partnership with the University of Warwick.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 30, 2016
Surely this cheap, customer-centric, and data-driven innovation would impress the client. To make customers measurably happier, optimization mattered less than innovation. Their optimization strengths had become innovation weakness. A little dab of inventory data would enhance both customer expectations and process efficiencies.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 24, 2016
Often new products are over-engineered with too many features, usually at too high a price. Some products are truly innovative but stay walled up too long in R&D and then are released to market when they are no longer unique. That’s a recipe for missing out on an innovation with huge profit potential.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 29, 2016
Their developers focus on meeting operational and environmental requirements, caring little about the physical appearance or user experience of a dashboard- or engine-compartment-mounted device that monitors vehicle data. Fleet logistics companies, for example, monitor the condition and location of their vehicles.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 30, 2016
In a recent article , we defined hybrids as combinations of competing elements or technical generations; for example, the Toyota Prius combines elements of internal combustion engines and electric cars. — prior work emphasizes that firms should choose to produce either products or platforms but not blend the two.
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