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Sep 5, 2024 · Innovation doesn’t just come from serendipity. Leaders who nurture great ideas rely on concrete mechanisms to ensure that they see the right ideas, give them breathing room to develop, …

Oct 6, 2025 · Companies are under pressure to pause digital innovation as costs rise and uncertainty grows—but holding back risks falling further behind in the age of AI and data-driven change. …

Sep 29, 2025 · Many companies already have the ideas they need to innovate but lack effective systems to surface and connect them. Research shows most employee ideas go unreviewed, leaving major …

May 13, 2025 · Serendipity has led to many scientific breakthroughs. For instance, Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin while doing research on influenza. But unlike scientists, business leaders and …

Many people believe that the process for achieving breakthrough innovations is chaotic, random, and unmanageable. But that view is flawed, the authors argue. Breakthroughs can be systematically ...

Sep 16, 2025 · A conversation with Stanford’s Melissa Valentine about how organizations can use online labor markets and AI tools to reshape collaboration.

Feb 12, 2025 · The key to unlocking innovation from diverse perspectives is constructive dissent: a team’s ability to engage respectfully in the exchange of conflicting viewpoints. As a norm, or pattern …

Feb 4, 2025 · But the EV industry overall has revved and sputtered in unpredictable ways and offers a case study in managing innovation, regulation, and competition.

Apr 2, 2025 · Leaders of Western companies trying to compete in industries dominated by Chinese manufacturers need to understand a phenomenon known as the learning curve: how major increases …