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Is the bid to innovate merely lip service?
Consultant explores reasons managers don't really encourage innovation.
To encourage innovation, don't punish failure
If you want your people to come up with innovative ideas, you have to make sure they aren't penalized for the ideas that fail. At Kimberly-Clark, employees are rewarded from making creative...
Are chief innovation officers more style than substance?
A greater number of companies have chief innovation officers this year than last year, but the position may be more style than substance.
Researchers working on 'unprinter' to wipe laser-printed documents
Researchers from the University of Cambridge are working on an "unprinter" technology that makes use of lasers to vaporize the toner off laser-printed copy. Leveraging earlier work done in this area,
How Ford's MyTouch innovation stumbled
We are constantly told that innovation is the key to success in today's Darwinian business environment, but moving too fast and furious can backfire on you. Ford Motor Co. learned this lesson with
Budget cuts prompt creativity for some CIOs
Economic uncertainty can cause IT leadership paralysis because it is very hard to plan technology initiatives when you don't know when--or by how much--the budget will be cut next. However, some CIOs
Procter & Gamble's strategy for 'discontinuous innovation'
Some chief executives may not know exactly what they want out of IT innovation, but Procter & Gamble CEO Bob McDonald evidently does. InformationWeek's Chris Murphy offers an interesting glimpse
IT couldn't save American Airlines
American Airlines is floundering, but its IT leadership can't be handed the blame. The company was once a pioneer in IT innovation, and while that trait is widely seen as necessary for survival in
IBM researchers encode data on just 12 atoms
Researchers at IBM ( NYSE: IBM ) have claimed success in encoding a single data bit onto a surface consisting of just 12 atoms. In comparison, a typical magnetic storage device typically requires over
With Gillett at the helm, Starbucks percolates with emerging technologies
Starbucks has turbo-charged its use of emerging technologies over the past couple years since Stephen Gillett took the job of CIO. The company has upgraded its infrastructure, recently deploying a
