The Best Articles in Innovation

Does success come from luck or skill, and how do you tell the difference? One way to find an answer: think like a pro gambler does, says football executive Rasmus Ankersen. Using sports analytics to…

Chris Berg, Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts are from the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub, the world’s first social science research centre…

Twenty years after the introduction of the theory, we revisit what it does—and doesn’t—explain.

‘The Ideal City’ collects the most successful urban ideas from around the world, to serve as a sort of cookbook of best practices for city leaders.

…the secret of Backcasting

Netflix should not be thought of as a streaming business. Streaming is not the business model, it’s the source of data.

Li’s research could prevent AI models from failing catastrophically when they encounter unfamiliar scenarios.

Collaborative ideation were never meant to be, and science tells us to go solo instead. Let’s take a closer look.

I think of the people who best model intelligent-failure principles as “elite failure practitioners” (EFPs) – my deliberately provocative term to emphasize the centrality of failure in the journey to…

A good daily habit to develop is to capture your thoughts. Who knows? It might just lead to a big breakthrough.

A year before he developed a working bulb, the "Wizard of Menlo Park" created the illusion that his prototype burned for more than a few minutes at a time

«Edison understood that success in the Gilded Age was a matter of hard work and carefully managing public expectations.»

Why positioning determines victors in SaaS and AI.

Managers launching a new initiative often try to start big. They work to gain approval for a substantial budget, recruit high-profile executives, arrange a big “kick-off” meeting, then look to move…

«The truth is that feeling the urge to persuade is a warning sign. It means you’re either starting with the wrong people or you have the wrong idea.»

January 2023(Someone fed my essays into GPT to make something that could answer questions based on them, then asked it where good ideas come from. The answer was ok, but not what I would have said.…

Most of the time, success comes from a well-placed tweak, a novel combination of two or more existing elements, or the better version of an idea or product not yet perfected.

Shared by 361, including Rand Fishkin

«One business we worked with took 30 minutes to implement A/B testing software; another took six months. That’s 8,760 times slower.»

For the past 20 years “disruption” has been a battle cry in business. Not surprisingly, many have come to see it as a near-synonym for innovation. But the obsession with disruption obscures an…

In a new book called The Voltage Effect, the economist John List — who has already revolutionized how his profession does research — is trying to start a scaling revolution. In this installment of the…

It’s always interesting to watch how companies approach the building of their new products. During the market research phase, companies…

It's never easy to predict the future. But as PM's 110th anniversary celebration draws to a close, we've decided to try. Here are 110 ambitious ideas for the decades ahead.