This book tries to find out how the winners of world's Best Innovator contest have succeeded over the past decade and also explores some unconventional approaches to business model innovation through risk mitigation. The five chapters offer conceptual guidance and provide examples that...

The title of this eBook is ""Confronting unexplored environments."" The six papers offer guides for strategic leaders as they experiment with new management systems and practices that will allow them to identify opportunities amid uncertainty and to adapt to emerging markets. For example, as...

Cover -- Editor's letter -- The age of Agile -- If your market is a competitive dogfight, think like a cat -- Observational skills: eye-openers for innovation -- Idea labs: instituting an innovation discovery process capable of sustaining the business -- Partnering with AI: how organizations can...

We've been on a reconnaissance over the past year to find articles with the latest thinkingand actionable ideas in innovation management, a critical corporate survival issue. Weenlisted a number of Strategy & Leadership contributing editors in the project - RobertJ

In this issue, which focuses on innovation, we offer an intriguing article on a new form ofinnovator, the network idealist. You may be somewhat familiar with the network idealistconcept because of what they do: for example, Craigslist, the free online classified adservice, competes with...