 The 2011 Global Innovation 1000: Why Culture is Key In past editions of the Global Innovation 1000, we found that companies focused on developing cutting-edge products and services fall under one of three fundamental innovation strategy models: Need Seekers, Market Readers, and Tech Drivers. This year, our seventh annual study of the world’s 1000 largest corporate R&D spenders focuses on the link between the three strategy models, culture, and organization—and their effect on companies’ alignment to innovation objectives and the impact on financial performance. The key finding: culture is key to innovation success, and its impact on performance is measurable.read more > |
 Value Shifts in the Telecom, Media, and Technology IndustriesThis global research study provides a detailed, data-driven analysis of the winners and losers in the telecommunications, media, and technology industries over the past five years. It examines the primary sources of revenue in each of the industry’s five sectors — network operations, hardware, IT services and software, content, and intermediation — and considers how players in each sector are attempting to move into adjacent sectors in search of growth.download (1.1mb, PDF) > |
 The Next Wave of Digitization: Setting Your Direction, Building Your CapabilitiesWe are entering a new age of digitization, driven by consumer and business demand and by a host of new technologies, such as ubiquitous broadband, powerful data-crunching technology, and the "Internet of Things." Every industry will be affected—indeed, transformed—and it is up to all CEOs to guide their companies through the coming transition. This perspective provides a guide to the impact that digitization will have on various industries, and how soon they will be affected.download (1.4mb, PDF) > |
| Retail Banking in the Age of Apponomics The recent financial crisis has caused consumers to lose trust in their banking institutions. Only by embracing the coming digitization of the financial services sector can banks win back their customers and begin growing again.download (510kb, PDF) > |
| Capabilities-Driven Strategy: Redefining Utility Leadership for a New Environment The energy debate—over issues from climate change to energy sustainability to new generation to smart grid--will change how people think of energy and of the role of the utility as a provider. Regulators and consumers are spurring demands for new investments; significant choices must be made, many of which ultimately will erode shareholder value. While instinct is leading some industry participants down the same worn-out path to temporary cutbacks, a new crop of "architect CEOs" are recognizing the need to realign their companies' capabilities and performance models with this emerging market, to both meet these new demands and take advantage of emerging market opportunities.download (421kb, PDF) > |