Month: July 2016

Benchmarking the performance of your organization’s innovation initiatives is a key part of making improvements. It allows your organization to

Animal sentinels, such as canaries in coal mines, provide critical warnings to people in vulnerable positions. Because they more quickly

Anyone who has lead a meeting has been there.  You are leading a meeting, ideation session or workshop, and watching

Oracle announced plans to buy cloud-based ERP provider NetSuite, a company backed by Oracle CTO Larry Ellison. But how will

Integration — connecting computing services to one another — used to mean bringing in expensive consultants, investing in custom programming,

Amazon’s cloud unit is disappointing competitors if they hoped it would slow down. In announcing its second quarter results, the

Apple is bulking up its and sharpening the focus of its Project Titan team with the hiring of Dan Dodge,

The Redmond giant reveals in a regulatory filing that it’s planning another round of job cuts in addition to the

By Aaron Sandeen, Phil Manfredi and Kiran Chinnagangannagari, Zuggand co-founders APIs are the new gold rush. And just like the

At this point, everybody’s talking about the need for a digital transformation. And, fortunately, words are translating to action, according

The continuing expansion of the industrial internet has found a new home for IoT: food service companies. Arby’s Restaurant Group

In the US$3 trillion United States healthcare industry, choice has swung decisively toward consumers in recent years. Empowered by technology,

Many companies want to establish a culture of innovation, one that will encourage employees to take risks that lead to

Bottom Line: Manufacturing and service firms differ in their approach to domestic and international philanthropy. In recent years, the spotlight

Early in The Wright Stuff: From NBC to Autism Speaks, by Bob Wright (with Diane Mermigas; RosettaBooks, 2016), the author

Corporate philanthropy is big business these days. In 2014, according to a study by the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy and

When gas prices are high, and remain persistently high, U.S. consumers tend to choose smaller and more fuel-efficient cars. When

In 2010, elBulli was named the second-best restaurant in the world. In 2011, superstar chef and co-owner Ferran Adrià shuttered

In a recent article, “10 Principles of Organizational Culture,” strategy+business highlighted how crucial it is to deploy authentic informal leaders (AILs).

Bottom Line: Number crunching can be valuable for firms exploiting their existing resources, but can backfire for companies seeking to

At the May 2016 TV upfronts, the annual mating ritual between advertisers and television networks, agency and brand executives received

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Precisely a year ago, I noted that the norms surrounding wages may finally be changing — especially for those on

Bottom Line: Executives who accumulate international experience are no more likely than others to advance their career at multinational companies.

It’s easy to spot and celebrate the innovations that change company fortunes: Apple’s iPhone, Warner-Lambert’s (and then Pfizer’s) Lipitor, Microsoft’s

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Illustration by Ryan Peltier Imagine that you run a large company, prominent in its industry, with a loyal customer base

Photograph courtesy of Silicon Valley Bank Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has a privileged view

On July 13, the Federal Reserve released the latest edition of the Beige Book, a compendium of observations, gossip, and

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