Strategy » Imagination & Innovation
We need imagination now more than ever—to find new opportunities, rethink our businesses, and discover paths to growth.
Martin Reeves makes a pitch for embracing play to spark innovative business ideas — and invites you to try out a series of imagination games.
Loran Nordgren and David Schonthal, professors at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, discuss their new book. Sharing insight into how to get people to say yes to a new idea or innovation, arguing that people are most persuaded by ideas that they generate themselves.
While much has been written about innovation and business models, we don’t have a playbook for what lies upstream of innovation: imagination.
The best companies will get back to the office — it’s the only way workers can read the room and optimally align their interactions.
Identifying the next big thing is often treated as an exercise in analyzing trends. But that’s misleading. By the time a trend is established and named, any opportunities it presents have probably been captured by competitors. In a new Harvard Business Review article we explain how to spot, understand and exploit “poignant anomalies” that have the potential to become a business opportunity.
A first report in a series that explores the innovative potential arising from the global movement of skilled workers and examines the implications for CEOs and policymakers.
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