Innovation

Businesses constantly struggle to keep up with technological advances—they have to maintain consistent growth while attempting to create new products and services that will meet future customer needs. Linda Hill, Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a prolific author, shares her expertise on how leaders can promote innovation within their organizations using a variety of techniques and strategies.

All organizations want to create an environment where creativity and innovation is encouraged. Innovation drives new product growth, enables creative solutions to problems, and keeps an organization competitive. Large multinational corporations face difficult challenges when trying to implement programs geared toward innovation across different countries and cultures where expectations of employees vary.

The concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) is still in its infancy but it is being rapidly developed. It is transforming how businesses operate—from manufacturing products to making repairs to keeping in touch with customers. Maciej Kranz, VP, Corporate Strategic Innovation Group at Cisco Systems and bestselling author of Building the Internet of Things, discusses how the full development and implementation of IoT will be more important than the development of the internet.