Smart Growth: A Road Map for Executives

With the global economy on the mend, companies are once again looking for growth. But this time, instead of growth at all costs, they want smart growth – the only way to really improve the bottom line. We lay out the 10 questions a company must answer to find out if it’s heading in the right direction.

Structured Idea Management as a Value-Adding Process

Many companies do not address the generation and management of good product ideas as an explicit process; rather, ideas tend to “float” around the organization, acquiring currency in proportion to the personal and political power of the champions who promote them. In this article, we outline a rational, objective, and highly productive approach that we call Structured Idea Management (SIM). By adopting an SIM process, … [ Read more ]