Innoversity

Sept 2008: P&G's Innovation Culture (Strategy+Business)

This great article by P&G CEO Lafley describes the unique innovative cuture of the innovation giant - which I had the pleasure of working with a couple of years ago. In the article, Lafley describes how - since he became the CEO in 2008 - P&G have doubled, due to building a strong culture of diversity and innovation.

This article by Irving Wladawsky-Berger describes what he identifies as the three primary challenges to corporate innovation: Indifference, hostility and isolation. A great article in which he highlights the dangers of isolation and stresses the need for more diversity in and around innovation processes.

Jan 08: Managing diversity & innovation (R&D Management)

This interesting article describes how the authors studied teams from 95 companies from four innovative industries, and found that team diversity and the combined use of long- and short-term incentives are associated with incremental innovation, whereas the development of risk-taking attitudes within the team is associated with radical innovation (downloadable .pdf).