Insights

2016

Disruption Denial

How Companies Are Ignoring What Is Staring Them in the Face

Offering transformation guidance, Disruption Denial could not be timelier, as companies and executives face the threat of disruptive change. Many companies are struggling to cope with the massive change and disruption in the age of new technology. We live in a world of constant change and...
2014

Innovation governance

How Top Management Organizes and Mobilizes for Innovation

The business leader's guide to encouraging continuous innovation in any organization Innovation governance is a hot topic in the business world. In a fast-paced business environment, the ability of corporate leaders to build purpose, direction, and focus for innovation is more important than ever...
2010

Incubators of the world, Best practices from top leaders

How new ideas can be transformed into successful businesses, through the nurturing of business incubators

This book explores how new ideas can be transformed into successful businesses, through the nurturing of Business Incubators. But what is a Business Incubator? The answers come from experts from ESCP Europe, a leading business management institution in Europe, and from the Arthur D. Little...
2010

Innovate Your Company

Trends to Follow for a Competitive Advantage.

Consulting experience and a feeling for trends is the basis for this book, written by the global Head of consulting firm Arthur D. Little. Seven trends form the framework for a book that tells about recent insights, ideas and approaches to innovation in different contexts and under different...
2008

Innovation Leaders

How Senior Executives Stimulate, Steer and Sustain Innovation

Innovation leaders promote and address the innovation agenda in their company. Through personal conviction or competitive necessity they are obsessed with providing superior value to customers through innovation. They know how to mobilize their staff behind concrete innovation initiatives and do...
2000

The End of Change

How your company can sustain growth and innovation while avoiding change fatigue

In The End of Change, Peter Scott-Morgan, author of the best-selling, The Unwritten Rules of the Game, and his colleagues at Arthur D. Little have discovered that Fortune 500 companies are currently spending twice their profits on change initiatives; yet they are only satisfied with half the...
1999

The Dance of Change

The Challenges of Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations

Since Peter Senge published his groundbreaking book The Fifth Discipline, he and his associates have frequently been asked by the business community: "How do we go beyond the first steps of corporate change? How do we sustain momentum?" They know that companies and organizations cannot thrive today...
1999

The Innovation Premium

How Next Generation Companies Are Achieving Peak Performance And Profitability

In today’s constantly shifting marketplace, innovation has become the mantra of companies large and small. In The Innovation Premium, Ron Jonash and Tom Sommerlatte draw on years of research and experience on the front lines to demonstrate—for the first time—that those companies that consistently...
1995

Product Juggernauts

How Companies Mobilise to Generate a Stream of Market Winners

According to the authors, how fast and how often a company can develop new products can determine whether or not it survives. Nayak and Deschamps integrate activities in R...
1994

The Unwritten Rules of the Game

Master them, shatter them, and break through the barriers

What drives day-to-day behaviour in an organization? The author proposes that the "silent engines" are not official policies but "unwritten" rules and that deciphering those rules is a vital step in managing change because the process reveals why people are simply unwilling to alter their behaviour...