Innovation in Motion: Staying on Top

Business innovation is a delicate balancing act. Download Insight magazine (Issue 14, Q3 2012) and learn to how manage innovation.

• Jay Rao defines his terms, so that everyone understands exactly what is meant by the discipline of innovation, before trying to put it into practice.
• Carlos Garcia Pont & Paulo Rocha reveal the barriers that prevent organizations from having a market mindset, which is essential for maintaining a cycle of innovation.
• Robert G. Cooper identifies five vectors that must be in place to undertake true innovation, which are relevant for any established business.
• Joaquim Vila presents a model for managers to establish a set of values, principles and practices that will help companies to launch innovation in a more systematic way.

Also in this magazine:

• Juan M. Barrionuevo (Mobile World Capital), together with IESE's Pascual Berrone and Joan E. Ricart, outline the strategic planning methodologies needed to create sustainable urban environments.
• Ikujiro Nonaka explains the steps that companies and their leaders can take to create a more fertile environment for new knowledge creation.

In our VIP interview, Mikael Schiller, of the Swedish fashion collective Acne, discusses their unique marketing approach of branding by doing.

In our case discussion, Metro Bank weighs the prospects of a new retail bank in crisis-bitten Britain.

And finally, Indian actor Rahul Ravindran offers a backstage glimpse into how creative teams collaborate to realize a blockbuster.