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The Forces of Ecosystem Evolution

Ecosystems depend on a delicate balance between forces that push activity toward greater integration, and those that ...

Article California Management Review 01 May 2022

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How to Compete When Industries Digitize and Collide: An Ecosystem Development Framework

How should firms best understand, engage in, and build business ecosystems?

Article California Management Review 01 May 2022

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How to Appropriate Value from General-Purpose Technology by Applying Open Innovation

An overly closed approach can prevent firms from deriving the benefits of general-purpose technology (GPT).

Article California Management Review 01 May 2022

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How Can Large Manufacturers Digitalize Their Business Models? A Framework for Orchestrating Industrial Ecosystems

Data is the new oil. For manufacturers, remaining competitive depends on their ability to digitalize their business m...

Article California Management Review 01 May 2022

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Harnessing Exaptation and Ecosystem Strategy for Accelerated Innovation: Lessons from the VentilatorChallengeUK

The VentilatorChallengeUK consortium moved quickly to speed up the design, regulatory approval, and manufacture of mo...

Article California Management Review 01 May 2022

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The ABCs of Making Executives Digitally Literate

Executives should familiarize themselves with analytics, coding, and digital business strategies.

note Carsten Lund Pedersen 05 Apr 2022

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Frugal Innovation to Tackle COVID-19

Frugal innovation is a recent phenomenon, showing how to solve problems differently & affordably.

opinion Mokter Hossain 01 Feb 2022

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Integrating the Digital World with Therapeutic Services

How can traditionally face-to-face therapeutic services adapt to the digital world?

note Lydia Poon 26 Sep 2021

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Getir: A Remarkable Example of a Digital Disrupter from An Emerging Market

The e-grocer has quickly introduced a disruptive, innovative, and lucrative business model.

frontier M. Mithat Üner et al. 13 Sep 2021

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The Making of Creative Breakthroughs

Research shows that both insiders and outsiders could solve innovation problems depending on how they tackle it.

note Oguz A. Acar 13 Sep 2021

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Tackling Societal Challenges with Open Innovation

The ultimate objective of innovation should be to create value - and in this era, the process of innovation should be...

Article California Management Review 01 Feb 2021

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Open Innovation for Wicked Problems: Using Proximity to Overcome Barriers

Open innovation is a viable strategy to solve wicked problems, but their complexity makes management significantly mo...

Article California Management Review 01 Feb 2021

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Evolving a Value Chain to an Open Innovation Ecosystem: Cognitive Engagement of Stakeholders in Customizing Medical Implants

Optimal innovation strategies now involve a large variety of internal and external participants.

Article California Management Review 01 Feb 2021

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Open Innovation’s “Multiunit Back-End Problem”: How Corporations Can Overcome Business Unit Rivalry

In the banking industry, collaboration with startups can rapidly accelerate digital transformation - but internal riv...

Article California Management Review 01 Feb 2021

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Changing the Work of Innovation: A Systems Approach

The Work System Approach can help leaders foster innovation for long-term organic growth.

Article California Management Review 20 Oct 2020

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When Agile Harms Learning and Innovation: (and What Can Be Done About It)

Agile approaches inherited from software development can promote flexibility, with certain drawbacks.

Article California Management Review 20 Oct 2020

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Navigating opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship under COVID-19

While the global pandemic may cause a market contraction, it also presents new opportunities.

frontier Jason Li-Ying et al. 24 Jun 2020

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Startup Supplier Programs: A New Model for Managing Corporate-Startup Partnerships

Outside-in programs allow larger firms to harness the entrepreneurial vitality of smaller startups.

Article California Management Review 30 May 2020

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The Risk of De-Risking Innovation: Optimal R&D Strategies in Ambiguous Environments

Large established firms have begun to underperform the decentralized startup ecosystem.

Article California Management Review 30 May 2020

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A COVID-19 Manhattan Project?

The global race for a cure will require a pragmatic approach to innovation that defies existing conventions in projec...

note Donald Drakeman et al. 22 May 2020

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The Future Titans

These growing industries provide ample opportunities for innovation.

David Salisbury 28 Feb 2020

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More Than a Clean Cup: Can Starbucks Innovate from Within?

Following its recent implicit bias training, Starbucks has a unique opportunity to engage frontline employees by aski...

Robert Springer 28 Jun 2018

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Ford: The Race to Innovate

In the Industrial Era, the Ford name was once synonymous with automotive innovation. In a time of driverless cars and...

Priscila Aoki 18 Jun 2018

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Building Centers for Action Research

Universities are already conducting great research, but many still struggle to convert their knowledge and insights i...

Lee Cooper 10 Jul 2017

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Millennials in the Workplace: Disruptive Tech, Open Innovation, and Investment Strategy

Millennials are growing up and entering the workforce. Their impatience, ambition, and desire for immediate results m...

Adelia Gregory 15 Apr 2016

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Docker: Innovation in the B2B Tech Market

Docker is a B2B web platform company with an innovative business model.

Amanda Wong 16 Sep 2015

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Topics innovation

Ecosystems depend on a delicate balance between forces that push activity toward greater integration, and those that ...

How should firms best understand, engage in, and build business ecosystems?

An overly closed approach can prevent firms from deriving the benefits of general-purpose technology (GPT).

Data is the new oil. For manufacturers, remaining competitive depends on their ability to digitalize their business m...

The VentilatorChallengeUK consortium moved quickly to speed up the design, regulatory approval, and manufacture of mo...

Executives should familiarize themselves with analytics, coding, and digital business strategies.

Frugal innovation is a recent phenomenon, showing how to solve problems differently & affordably.

How can traditionally face-to-face therapeutic services adapt to the digital world?

The e-grocer has quickly introduced a disruptive, innovative, and lucrative business model.

Research shows that both insiders and outsiders could solve innovation problems depending on how they tackle it.

The ultimate objective of innovation should be to create value - and in this era, the process of innovation should be...

Open innovation is a viable strategy to solve wicked problems, but their complexity makes management significantly mo...

Optimal innovation strategies now involve a large variety of internal and external participants.

In the banking industry, collaboration with startups can rapidly accelerate digital transformation - but internal riv...

The Work System Approach can help leaders foster innovation for long-term organic growth.

Agile approaches inherited from software development can promote flexibility, with certain drawbacks.

While the global pandemic may cause a market contraction, it also presents new opportunities.

Outside-in programs allow larger firms to harness the entrepreneurial vitality of smaller startups.

Large established firms have begun to underperform the decentralized startup ecosystem.

The global race for a cure will require a pragmatic approach to innovation that defies existing conventions in projec...

These growing industries provide ample opportunities for innovation.

Following its recent implicit bias training, Starbucks has a unique opportunity to engage frontline employees by aski...

In the Industrial Era, the Ford name was once synonymous with automotive innovation. In a time of driverless cars and...

Universities are already conducting great research, but many still struggle to convert their knowledge and insights i...

Millennials are growing up and entering the workforce. Their impatience, ambition, and desire for immediate results m...

Docker is a B2B web platform company with an innovative business model.

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