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Fast Talk: The Innovation Conversation Start with a conversation. Bring together 10 forward-looking business leaders -- visionaries in technology, video games, retail, hospitality, finance, and design. Add pressure and limit time to 90 minutes. What do you get? Instant Innovation! |
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HBS Working Knowledge
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HBS Working Knowledge
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Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance In their new book, Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance, Pisano and Shih discuss the dangers of underinvesting in the nation's manufacturing capabilities. |
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The Motley Fool
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Identifying Innovative Companies A new study identifies five ways that CEOs and executives can get better at innovation. |
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Developing True Product Innovations Coming up with innovative food products affects all aspects of a business, and a new product initiative may need outside help to be successful. An expert affiliated with a product and equipment design firm offers some useful tips. |
Inc.
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Innovation: Making Inspiration Routine It's not about brilliance. Valuable new ideas are the product of hard work and smart, disciplined processes. |
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The Rock, the Hard Place, and Doing Business in Today's Information Marketplace Due to increasing business requirements -- and given that the dollars spent for information and market data within many industries make up the second-highest company cost next to people -- one wonders how customers and suppliers alike are weathering the flat market storm. |
Food Engineering
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Editor's Note: Relying on Innovation to Meet Production Challenges The biggest challenge of food and beverage company manufacturing leaders is economics. |
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Survival of the Fittest Supply Chains In a weak economy, weak suppliers are being replaced by strong ones. |
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How to Know if E-Procurement Is Right for You While some companies have achieved price reductions through online sourcing, the focus of e-procurement initiatives today is process efficiency. Here's how to decide if, what and how you should buy electronically. |
HBS Working Knowledge
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How Kayak Users Built a New Industry Professor Carliss Baldwin discusses research into the rodeo kayak industry to understand the world of user innovation. |
BusinessWeek
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Regulating Financial Innovation: Three Views Economists and policymakers are divided over the right way to regulate innovative consumer financial products. Here are the three main perspectives. |
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Top-Down Innovation CEOs have another - and an increasingly urgent - assignment to add to their leadership portfolios: driving innovation and tearing down barriers that may prevent it. Technology is playing a large part in new business models. |
InternetNews
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Is Economics Driving PC 'Innovation' Offshore? As the business of designing, building, and distributing PCs becomes increasingly globalized, U.S. PC vendors have exported less valuable work offshore, while keeping more valuable and innovative product development, project management and marketing and branding functions here. |
HBS Working Knowledge
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Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators In their new book, The Innovator's DNA, authors Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen, and Clayton M. Christensen build on the idea of disruptive innovation to explain how and why the Steve Jobses and Jeff Bezoses of the world are so successful. |
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Time to Showcase America's Tech The United States needs a big, public technology event to show off our IT innovations. |
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Food Engineering
February 1, 2005
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Engineering Brain Drain? New Strategies for Coping Does the food industry still have the engineering competencies to deliver innovation and great bottom line results? It's business challenges are as intense as ever, and the winners will be the ones who can uncover the keys to successfully converting the opportunities to real business results. |
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Cutting to the Core Consolidating suppliers can help manufacturers add value to their supply chain, but not without a good plan to make it work. |
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Not All Innovations Are Equal Innovative strategies alone -- without changes to either the underlying technologies or the products and services sold to customers -- drive the success of many companies. But now, the long-term survival of a company depends on strategic innovation more than ever before. |
CRM
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A New Decade Brings New Ideas Organizations must position themselves in a way that promotes innovation. |
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Squeeze Now, Pay Later A wounded vendor may turn around and bite the CIO who squeezes it too hard. |
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Managing In A Slow-Growth Economy Communicating better, cutting costs and globalizing production are among 10 actions you can take to improve business performance. |
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Who's On HP's Short List? High-tech giant releases the names of its top suppliers to emphasize its supply chain visibility. |
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