Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the intersection of people, risk, leadership and performance. Effective leaders understand that for innovation projects to ...

Businesses are struggling to meet their innovation goals, with only 3% of companies in qualifying as "innovation ready," according to the Boston Consulting Group, BCG, Annual Innovation Report. Yet, ...

Creating innovative technical products requires an engineering organization that fosters the natural innovative spirit of engineers and meets stakeholder expectations. Engineers are natural innovators ...

Business management helps a company function and achieve goals. Here's what you need to know about each of its eight main ...

Managers are challenged to solve complex problems, requiring them to assemble teams and run projects for their organizations. Most managers lack formal project management training, and very often, the ...

From a competitive perspective, the shift from a manufacturing base to a technology-innovation and knowledge-based economy requires new skills among organizational employees. In conversations with ...

Senior leaders at every company know that being able to innovate successfully is critical to their future. But too few of those leaders truly understand how to foster innovation across all segments of ...

Process matters. In fact, any start-up is searching not only for the modern phrase “product-market fit”—a proven solution to a problem that people will pay to fix—but also for a process for achieving ...

If you’ve managed a project before, you’ll know that keeping costs down is one of the biggest challenges during a standard project management life cycle. If your costs overrun, it can easily lead to ...