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Master Smart Strategic Experiments: Don't Abandon Innovation in Tough Times
Anthony, Scott D.Book Chapter HBS-3319BC-EThe popular perception that innovation is risky and expensive presents challenges in uncertain times. That perception makes it far too easy for naysayers to justify curtailing innovation investments. Constant change requires companies to develop more ideas more quickly and cheaply, and with lower risk. This chapter describes how the proper management of strategic experiments can help companies achieve these objectives. This chapter was originally...Starting at €8.20
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Increase Innovation Productivity: Building the Right Systems and Structures to Make Innovation Repeatable--Even in Tough Times
Anthony, Scott D.Book Chapter HBS-3318BC-EHistorically, companies have had innovation batting averages that wouldn't qualify them for a cellar-dwelling baseball team. Improving the innovation success rate is a pressing challenge, especially in tough times. This chapter discusses how companies can improve the productivity of efforts to create new products, services, and processes by developing strategies, structures, and processes to improve their innovation batting average. It describes ...Starting at €8.20
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Innovation Metrics
Anthony, Scott D.; Johnson, Mark W.; Sinfield, Joseph V.; Altman, Elizabeth J.Book Chapter HBS-4556BC-EStrategyOne of the key challenges for companies seeking to improve their ability to create growth through innovation is that the metrics many companies use to measure innovation run a high risk of actually leading them in the wrong direction. This chapter describes key measurement traps and lays out fifteen potential innovation metrics companies can use to more accurately assess innovation-related activities. This chapter is excerpted from "The Innovato...Starting at €8.20
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Developing Disruptive Ideas
Anthony, Scott D.; Johnson, Mark W.; Sinfield, Joseph V.; Altman, Elizabeth J.Book Chapter HBS-4551BC-EStrategyInnovation isn't predictable. However, remembering key principles and following the straightforward process for generating disruptive ideas that is outlined in this chapter, can reliably increase the odds of coming up with a high-potential idea. This chapter is excerpted from "The Innovator's Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work."Starting at €8.20
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Precursors to Innovation
Anthony, Scott D.; Johnson, Mark W.; Sinfield, Joseph V.; Altman, Elizabeth J.Book Chapter HBS-4547BC-EStrategyBefore turning to individual innovation initiatives or innovation-specific structures, companies need to make sure they have the appropriate precursors for innovation. This chapter describes three critical precursors: a core business that is in control, a game plan for growth, and mastery of the resource allocation process. This chapter is excerpted from "The Innovator's Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work."Starting at €8.20
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Principles and Patterns of Disruptive Innovation
Anthony, Scott D.; Johnson, Mark W.; Sinfield, Joseph V.; Altman, Elizabeth J.Book Chapter HBS-4557BC-EStrategyThis chapter highlights key innovation traps and summarizes the processes and principles that will significantly increase your chances of creating growth through innovation. This chapter is excerpted from "The Innovator's Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work."Starting at €8.20
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What's the BIG Idea (A)
Christensen, Clayton M.; Anthony, Scott D.Case HBS-602105-EService and Operations ManagementCEO Michael Collins must decide if and how a process he developed to further innovation in the kids' industry could port over to other industries. The process was based on Collins' experiences as an inventor and as a venture capitalist, and it allowed his company to be an intermediary between inventors and innovation-seeking companies. The process seemed to be working quite well in the kids' industry and Collins had to decide what would "travel" ...Starting at €8.20
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Introduction: Your Guide to Growth
Anthony, Scott D.; Johnson, Mark W.; Sinfield, Joseph V.; Altman, Elizabeth J.Book Chapter HBS-4546BC-EStrategyThere is a general sense that a fog enshrouds the world of innovation, obscuring high-potential opportunities and making success a random and fleeting phenomenon. In contrast to conventional wisdom, this chapter contends that following the rights steps and putting in place the right structures can allow managers and entrepreneurs to improve significantly the odds of creating profitable growth businesses. This chapter is excerpted from "The Innov...Starting at €8.20
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The New Corporate Garage
Anthony, Scott D.Article HBS-R1209B-EThe innovation revolution spurred by venture capitalists decades ago has created the conditions in which scale enables big companies to shift from shackling innovation to unleashing it. Three trends are behind this shift: (1) The ease of innovation and its decreasing cost mean that start-ups now face the same short-term pressures that have constrained innovation at large companies. (2) Taking a page from start-up strategy, large companies are emb...Starting at €8.20
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Unite Your Senior Team
Kummerli, Bernard C.; Anthony, Scott D.; Messerer, MarkusArticle HBS-R1806D-EDisruptive change poses existential challenges to leadership teams, raising foundational questions about aspirations, identity, and the very soul of a company. So it is no surprise that leadership teams often struggle to achieve alignment on what degree of growth is needed and what markets and types of innovations to invest in. This article provides a novel and practical road map for achieving leadership alignment. It offers tools to help executi...Starting at €8.20