How to Manage Outside Innovation

evin J. Boudreau, Karim R. Lakhani

Do you gain from staging a competition between your creative minds (consumers, independent researchers, etc.) or should you rather gather them in a community of co-innovation? Three factors to take into consideration.

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Cultivating a Healthy Appetite for Risk

How to create a risk-friendly culture.

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The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution

Gary L. Neilson, Karla L. Martin, Elizabeth E. Powers

The main characteristics of organizations having a good execution capacity.

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The promise of prediction markets: A roundtable

Renée Dye

A review of the first predictive markets used in the business world: key success factors and points to watch.

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Competing on Resources

David J. Collis, Cynthia A. Montgomery

An alternative to traditional strategic thinking models: define strategy based on an initial analysis of resources.

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The next step in open innovation

Jacques Bughin, Michael Chui, Brad Johnson

What difficulties you should foresee when you want to set up a community of co-creation.

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Building an organized process for strategy communication

David P. Norton, James Coffey

Four main steps to defining an effective strategic communication process.

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The Power of the Prototyping Mind-Set

Robert I. Sutton

An example of using successive prototypes to launch a web company.

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Simple Rules for Making Alliances Work

Jonathan Hughes, Jeff Weiss

How can you increase the chances that your partnerships will be successful?

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Bridging the Gap Between Stewards and Creators

Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan

The traditional friction between managers and creative profiles can be an excellent source of innovation, if you know how to manage it!

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