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The Global Innovation 1000 Study: Making Ideas Work
Innovation is a tricky business. There is no magic formula to getting it right, and as Booz & Company’s Global Innovation 1000 study has shown consistently for the past eight years, spending more on research and development does not lead to innovation success on its own. Some firms top our list of the world’s most innovative companies year after year. How do such companies create sustained innovation success?

To find out, this year’s Global Innovation 1000 study examines how companies start the innovation process. In addition to our annual analysis of R&D spending trends, we focus on the “fuzzy front end” of the innovation process: the tools, mechanisms and networks companies use to generate ideas and effectively convert them into potential future products and services. read more about the Global Innovation 1000 study >

 

read more Investing in Talent for Sustained Growth
Senior leadership teams and human resources executives should develop focused people strategies that align with and support their company’s capabilities system—the few things the company does exceptionally well that distinguish it from competitors. By following four steps, executives can identify, prioritize, and develop the employee segments across the organization that are critical to its long-term differentiation and success.read more >

 

read more Booz & Company Shapes the Strategic Concept of the Russian National Innovation Center
“Skolkovo: Miracle Enforced” by Oleg Rashidov was published in the summer of 2012. Oleg Rashidov, a Russian journalist and documentary screenwriter, conducted his own independent research for what he dubs in his book “the real story of the most ambitious project in the modern Russia.” read more >

 
read more Booz & Company: Promoting the innovation agenda in Russia
On May 28, 2012, Steffen Leistner, Vice President and the Head of the Moscow office of Booz & Company, led the opening session at the “42” Forum. The “42” Forum is one of the major Russian events for start-ups, held in Moscow. read more >

 
read more Value Shifts in the Telecom, Media, and Technology Industries
This 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.read more >

 
read more The Next Wave of Digitization: Setting Your Direction, Building Your Capabilities
Digitization is reaching an inflection point. Three powerful forces are driving the shift: consumer demand, the push for new technologies, and the prospect of even greater economic benefits. This Perspective provides guidance to CEOs and their man­agement teams about the relevance of digitization in their respective industries, and the factors most likely to accelerate or decelerate the digitization phenomenon.read more >