Developing and implementing new business models, processes, products and services is just part of what innovation is all about. Using those new ideas to create customer value and drive business growth – that's how truly innovative businesses thrive. Use the resources here to learn how to bring your new ideas to life and build your company into an innovation leader.

 

 

Articles 

 

China's Growing Talent for Innovation

 

Overview: China has a wealth of advantages as a business innovator, including an adaptable population with an affinity for improvisation and reverse engineering, and a low-cost operating environment. Read analysis by Jim Andrew of the Boston Consulting Group as he looks at how companies can profit from Chinese innovation, what drives this innovation, and what challenges they face in sourcing R&D in China.

 

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Reports 

 

Brookings Corporate Citizenship and Urban Problem Solving

 

Overview: Business-led civic organizations have historically played an important role in urban
policymaking, planning, and renewal. These elite organizations of CEOs of the area’s largest
employers could quickly mobilize their members’ personal devotion to the community, their dealmaking talent, and their ability to commit corporate financial resources to their city’s emerging needs.

 

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A.T. Kearney Innovation Management Study: Strategies for Success and Leadership

 

Overview: A.T. Kearney expanded its successful European Best Innovator Competition to a global competition.  More than 250 companies worldwide, from virtually all industries, participated.  Participants completed an online survey, with select follow-up interviews conducted to further validate the data-collection effort.

 

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2008 IBM Global CEO Study

 

Overview: Accelerated globalization. Constant technology advances. Intensified competition. How are CEOs responding? To find out, IBM talked to more than 1,000 CEOs and public sector leaders worldwide. Learn for yourself how the men and women on top are using innovation to thier advantage.

 

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2008 Kauffman State New Economy Index

 

The State New Economy Index measures states’ economic structures.  Rather than measuring state economic performance or state economic policies, the Index focuses more narrowly on a single question: To what degree does the structure of state economies match the ideal structure of the New Economy?  The Index builds on the 1999, 2002 and 2007 reports, using 29 indicators to rank each state on the extent to which its economy is structured and operates to effectively compete nationally and globally.
 

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