Purpose – Ask an expert to describe an innovation system that enables companies to successfully advance valuable technologies that fit their current business model – and those that do not fit it. Design/methodology/approach – Strategy & Leadership interviewed Henry Chesbrough author of...

Purpose – Managers need research‐based guidance on how to find sources of new growth when their core business is maturing. Design/methodology/approach – Authors shadowed managers responsible for finding and entering new businesses, interviewing them every three or four months for an...

Purpose – The author has spent the last ten years studying the innovation process in modern organizations and found that the most successful firms pursue an innovation strategy termed technology brokering . Design/methodology/approach – How are the objectives achieved? Include the main...

Purpose – To make top management aware of the innovation paradox: their current success depends on doing and improving upon what they now do well, but their future success requires creating entirely new capabilities. Design/methodology/approach – One of the authors is director of development...

Purpose – Describes how The F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College features creativity as one of the early and essential components of its innovative two‐year MBA program. Design/methodology/approach – Article reports on the indicators that the program is a success....

Purpose – Highlight the management dilemma disruptive innovation poses and examine what the leading management theorists have to offer as a solution. Design/methodology/approach – The author examines six leading theories of innovation and three alternatives to disruptive innovation. Findings...

Purpose – Bill Ralston and Ian Wilson have written a unique resource for corporate leaders – The Scenario Planning Handbook: Developing Strategies in Uncertain Times (Thomson/Southwestern, 2006). Strategy & Leadership editor Robert M. Randall interviewed them to ask, for example, Why does...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to discover the views of Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg on redefining value in health care. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is in the form of an interview with Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg with reference to their book Redefining...

Purpose – This interview aims to discuss how the disposable model can also be applied to many other aspects of business. In fast‐changing environments, any number of a business's elements may prove disposable, including organizational structures, management teams, distribution channels, and...

Purpose – “The Persistence Project” – an ambitious new research project led by two Deloitte Consulting veterans, consultant Mumtaz Ahmed and noted author Michael Raynor – seeks to advance the art of “success study.”. This paper aims to investigate this issue....