Breaking Out of the Innovation Box. In most companies, investments in innovation follow a boom-bust cycle, often with devastating results. For innovation to become truly sustainable, it needs to become part of the everyday commerce that takes place among companies. Here's a way to create a market for ideas without giving your competitors on advantage.

Research That Reinvents the Corporation. Your R&D operation should be doing far more than inventing the next great thing. It should be creating the business processes that will make your entire company more flexible and innovative.

Organizing for Innovation: When is Virtual Virtuous? Champions of virtual corporations are urging managers to subcontract everything and anything, and companies all over the world are jumping on the bandwagon-decentralizing, downsizing, and forging alliances. But when it comes to innovation, virtuality often does more harm than good.