Strategy
An effective innovation strategy can drive business results, but does your company’s growth depend on it? Join the conversation and discuss topics that include: improving innovation results, driving above-market rates of organic growth through innovation, and harnessing global capacity and capability to drive innovation.
This series provides leading practices for avoiding the top ten most common mistakes made during the implementation of large global IT systems in support of R&D or other business processes. Read on to learn how to avoid mistake #1: The "Global" Roll Out
In the second phase of strategic foresight - Anticipate - we forecast trends into the future and analyze how they will interact to create novel future environments.
During the first phase of Strategic Foresight - Discover - the goal is to understand what elements of the external environment impact value creation and indicate forces of change.
Strategic foresight enables companies to build a proprietary view of the future that drives breakthrough innovation. But not all foresight approaches are created equal. Here are our recommendations for a 3-phase process customized for innovation.
Strategic foresight is a discipline that provides a structured way to investigate, not predict, the future. Strategic foresight scenarios are provocative, yet plausible, alternative views of the future. But where did this idea come from?
Strategic foresight is a discipline that provides a structured way to investigate, not predict, the future. In the research and development context, strategic foresight is advanced portfolio management, where projects are selected based on robustness across multiple future scenarios.
A company’s innovation culture is an important and distinct competitive advantage, but only if it aligns with innovation and corporate strategy. Domino’s is a great example for a variety of reasons.
Delivering on innovation requires aligning corporate strategy with capabilities and culture. Innovation leaders need to foster four climate elements to drive innovation in their organizations.
The rapidly evolving digital world will change retail product development more in the next 5 years than it has in the last 15. Retail, footwear and apparel product leaders must find ways to transform their end-to-end product development lifecycles to deliver top and bottom-line results.
Patagonia takes sustainability seriously. Their business model centers on manufacturing, repairing and recycling garments so they last a lifetime.
In the retail industry, innovation happens every day. Our 2016 Annual Report reflects on trends and themes we expect to carry into 2017, while celebrating noteworthy examples of innovation from 2016. Read an excerpt from the 2016 Annual Report below and download it here.
In any transformational, enterprise-level software implementation, scope creep is inevitable. Here are four actions that discourage scope creep and minimize its impact.
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