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featured Strategy article, Using knowledge brokering to improve business processes

JANUARY 2010

Using knowledge brokering to improve business processes

New applications of open-innovation principles allow progressive companies to enhance not only their products but also their core internal business processes.

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  • featured Nonprofit article, Making the most of corporate social responsibility

    DECEMBER 2009

    Making the most of corporate social responsibility

    For companies that see CSR as an opportunity to strengthen the business, the big challenge is execution. Smart partnering can provide a practical way forward.

  • featured Strategy article, Competing through organizational agility

    DECEMBER 2009

    Competing through organizational agility

    Three distinct types of agility—strategic, portfolio, and operational—help companies compete. Each of them has its own sources and dangers.

  • featured Public Sector article, Next-generation water policy for businesses and government

    DECEMBER 2009

    Next-generation water policy for businesses and government

    The solution to water scarcity, in part, will come from new technologies for better managing water as a resource. But to make these technologies more effective, business and policy leaders will need to work more closely to implement them.

  • featured Operations article, optimize knowledge sharing factory network

    SEPTEMBER 2009

    How to optimize knowledge sharing in a factory network

    Designing a manufacturing network entails devising and managing flows of innovation and know-how—not just determining what to produce and where—and organizing the resulting logistics flows.

  • featured Strategy article, State capitalism the crisis

    JULY 2009

    State capitalism and the crisis

    Despite massive state interventions in economies around the world, many corporate leaders and investors act as though globalization remains the dominant paradigm. That is a mistake.

  • featured Strategy article, Where innovation creates value

    FEBRUARY 2009

    Where innovation creates value

    It doesn’t matter where scientific discoveries and breakthrough technologies originate—for national prosperity, the important thing is who commercializes them. The United States is not behind in that race.

  • featured Strategy article, The ergonomics of innovation

    SEPTEMBER 2008

    The ergonomics of innovation

    A successful campaign to save 100,000 lives shows that efforts to make it easier for organizations to innovate can yield remarkable results.

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China’s environment

Bill Emmott, the former editor of The Economist, writes that Japan’s experience provides an excellent road map for China to deal with its environmental problem. We then asked three regional experts -- Richard Katz, Minxin Pei, and Andrew Grant -- for their responses. Emmott's essay and their responses are published together.

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