Innovation

Center for the Edge

Senior executives are caught between intensifying competitive pressure and accelerating change in the landscape around creating enormous performance pressures. What executives know today is becoming less valuable as they struggle with the challenge of innovating and learning faster to operate more effectively in these challenging times.

For your review, we have provided select Center for the Edge publications to learn more about the many facets of innovation.

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How World of Warcraft (WoW) Promotes Innovation
As gamers grapple with an ever-changing, ever uncertain in-game environment, they are pioneering new technologies that may prove highly relevant to the business world. Deloitte LLP’s Center for the Edge point-of-view uncovers the collaboration curve in online gaming and discusses the new era of scalable learning and performance.
Four Ways to Spur Innovation at Your Company
Center leaders John Hagel, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison author The Big Shift, a prestigious blog for Harvard Business Publishing, and explore how institutions can benefit by fostering the emergence of creation spaces and collaboration curves. (Harvard Business Publishing blog)
The Next Wave of Open Innovation
Open innovation has become an important management trend over the past decade. Yet, despite great initial success, some of the most prominent examples of open innovation have had serious limitations. We are now on the brink of a major evolution of open innovation. (BusinessWeek.com column)

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John Hagel III, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison
A Voyage of Discovery or Hidden in Plain Sight
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The Big Shift: Is a Normal Business Environment Gone Forever?
View the archive of this September 23 TMT Dbriefs webcast.