Mastering Innovation’s Toughest Trade-Offs

Leaders must answer eight key questions to address the hidden tensions underlying innovation strategies.

The Research

  • The authors conducted hundreds of in-depth interviews with senior executives (CEOs, board chairs, executive vice presidents, and business unit heads) and innovation managers across different industries and settings.
  • They supplemented interview data with email correspondence, site visits, research gathered at industry events, and archival data from websites, blogs, social network profiles, and trade publications.
  • They then followed an inductive approach to iteratively organize and reorganize the raw data to generate theories ...

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