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The budget crisis should usher in a new era of innovation in defense
06.09.2011

Washington Post

By Mark W. Johnson

Mark Johnson discusses the military's need for a new kind of business model for a new kind of war.

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Making Innovation Matter
03.07.2011

Bloomberg BusinessWeek

The magic lies in how it's managed, and that must come from the very top of the company

By Mark W. Johnson

New Business Models in Emerging Markets
12.22.2010

Harvard Business Review

By Matthew J. Eyring, Mark W. Johnson and Hari Nair

Risk Management and Innovation
11.09.2010

Bloomberg BusinessWeek

The biggest risk could lie in misconceiving risk management itself, says Innosight's Mark W. Johnson.

By Mark W. Johnson

Remember those analogy questions on the old SATs? An ordered pair was followed by several other pairs from which you were to choose the closest comparison—dogma is to...

The Role of the Chief Innovation Officer
11.04.2010

Bloomberg BusinessWeek

By Mark W. Johnson

Innovation isn't new, but appointing a C-suite member to oversee it is. Mark Johnson looks at how the CIO's role should be executed.

Ten years ago, you'd have been hard-pressed to find a chief innovation officer on any company's leadership team. Today such leading companies as AMD (AMD...

Clarifying Innovation for Success
10.08.2010

Bloomberg BusinessWeek

You can't manage innovation if you don't clearly understand what it is. Start by distinguishing new-business innovation from core-businesss innovation, says Innosight's Mark W. Johnson.

By Mark W. Johnson

Far from being an occasional creative eruption, innovation is the engine of long-term business growth...

Meeting the Innovation Challenge in a Green Future
09.07.2010

Bloomberg BusinessWeek

Mark Johnson

To adapt, companies will need far more than bright ideas and breakthrough product. They need to create a whole industry around those innovations.

Making the Worst of Times into the Best of Opportunities
06.17.2010

CNBC

By Mark W. Johnson, Chairman and Co-Founder of Innosight, and author of Seizing the White Space: Business Model Innovation for Growth and Renewal.

The history of business is full of stories of entire industries cut off at the knees when some natural, political...

Venturing into the White Space
06.17.2010

Chief Executive

How do companies decide where to focus and how to grow? Mark Johnson of Innosight explains all in an excerpt from his book, Seizing the White Space.

How to Succeed at M&A
06.17.2010

Bloomberg BusinessWeek

All too often, mergers and acquisitions fail dismally. That, says Innosight's Mark Johnson, is because executives don't understand what they're really buying.

By Mark W. Johnson

The Way To Innovate To Beat Radical Discontinuity
06.17.2010

Forbes

There's a basic secret to being able to look forward rather than back.

By Mark W. Johnson