Open innovation

Plus strategies for driving transformative growth in 2023.

Four research-backed principles to help you determine what's right for your company.

The esports venture uses blockchain to let fans call the shots in real time.

You need an individualized approach.

As technology like facial recognition becomes more pervasive, companies need to prioritize privacy and security.

The "open talent" model is suited to a future that increasingly prioritizes flexibility.

Give people a reason-not a regulation-to come in to the office.

Understanding the outrage of Flickr users.

It did six things right.

Why winner-take-all prize structures increase churn among participants.

Despite a multitude of initiatives in cross-sector collaboration and open innovation, businesses still struggle to support the development of game-changing...

The innovation revolution spurred by venture capitalists decades ago has created the conditions in which scale enables big companies to shift from shackling...

Forget disruption and incrementalism. Here’s how to develop high-growth products in slow-growth companies.

A framework for opening up your company’s strategy process to outside participants without giving away your game plan.

For years, online experimentation has fueled the innovations of leading tech companies, enabling them to rapidly test and refine new ideas, optimize product...

The case describes how FC Barcelona's Innovation Hub (BIH) helped the club generate revenues through digital means when Covid 19 struck, causing football...

The case examines how the founder of a startup company came up with the entrepreneurial idea and used Kickstarter as a platform to establish and grow...

James "Hondo" Geurts, the Acquisition Executive for U.S. Special Operations Command was in the middle of his Senate confirmation hearing in 2017 to become...

This case study describes how Fiat Brazil developed a collaborative platform that combines crowdsourcing, open innovation and creative commons in order...

Supplement to case W18557 Jaga suffered negative economic effects from the 2008 financial crisis. As the crisis persisted in 2011, management planned...

Maire Tecnimont is an international leader in the engineering and construction of industrial plants. Since its founding in 1983, the company has expanded...

The case is set in July 2020, when Lynk Biotech (Lynk), a pharmaceutical research company based in Singapore is facing the dilemma of designing new products...

In 2014, the Patient Room of the Future (PRoF) was the largest European open innovation consortium in the healthcare sector. Established in 2009 by a...

InnoCentive.com, a firm connecting R&D labs of large organizations to diverse external solvers through innovation contests, has to decide if they will...

In early 2017, the vice-president, Enterprise Innovation, at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), one of Canada's leading banks, encountered roadblocks...

He increased the sales of products such as Pulmicort RespulesTM after their patents expired, generating significant social benefits by making medical...

TODAY'S LEADERS KNOW THAT SPEED and agility are the keys to any company's success, and yet many are frustrated that their organizations can't move fast...

Xiaomi quickly rose to become one of China's top smartphone manufacturers after its founding in 2010. By mid-2015, it was looking to bolster its declining...

On March 14, 2019, the convenience business unit manager of Greenyard Frozen was in his Roeselare, Belgium office preparing for a management meeting that...

This case shows how ThyssenKrupp (tk) has altered its innovation process in recent years. CEO Heinrich Hiesinger has brought in a former colleague from...

What could your team accomplish if everyone were at their most curious and creative--every single day? You know that your organization needs to innovate...

Bayer Crop Science AG (Bayer CS) was grappling with the critical issue of how to navigate the landscape of relevant technologies for innovation partnerships....

Ravi Arora, Vice President (Group Innovation), Tata Sons Private Limited, and his Group Innovation team initially faced difficulty when introducing the...

From the author of "The Little Black Book of Innovation," a new guide for using the power of habit to build a culture of innovation. Leaders have experimented...

Quilts of Denmark was a Danish start-up company founded in 2000 with the goal of producing high-quality, functional quilts and pillows that contributed...

Plus strategies for driving transformative growth in 2023.

The case describes how FC Barcelona's Innovation Hub (BIH) helped the club generate revenues through digital means when Covid 19 struck, causing football...

The mission of Business Horizons is to publish research that practitioners can understand to help them change their thoughts and actions. However, this...

Four research-backed principles to help you determine what's right for your company.

The case examines how the founder of a startup company came up with the entrepreneurial idea and used Kickstarter as a platform to establish and grow...

Technology has transformed individuals from mere consumers of products to empowered participants in value co-creation. While numerous firms experiment...

The world of hackathons brings the study of balancing high-speed, creative autonomy and administrative control to bear in many interesting ways for managers...

Over the past few years, Bitcoin has emerged as the first decentralized, global currency. The rise of Bitcoin has brought attention not only to digital...

Orchestrating an ecosystem requires coordination to create value, but prior research has tended to emphasize centralized ecosystem control over solutions...

The esports venture uses blockchain to let fans call the shots in real time.