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当前，学术界围绕西方管理与东方哲学相结合的研讨已经取得了显著的成效，这主要归因于欧洲和中国在过去的30年都取得了举世瞩目的发展，而且双方在历史上的合作还从未如此紧密。在这此专访中，理查德·李华教授介绍了关于这个话题的一些关键因素，并指出创新管理者应该怎样从这种中西结合中获益。

Synthetic biology moves us from reading to writing DNA, allowing us to design biological systems from scratch for any number of applications. Its capabilities are becoming clearer, its first products and processes emerging. Synthetic biology’s reach already extends from reducing our dependence on oil to transforming how we develop medicines and food crops. It is being heralded as the next big thing; whether it fulfils that expectation remains to be seen. It will require collaboration and multi-disciplinary approaches to development, application and regulation. Interesting times ahead!

2013年是西方经济遭遇金融危机后的第五年。这次金融危机在短期内给企业的盈利制造了很大麻烦，裁员和削减成本是必不可少的手段。但是从长远的角度讲，仅仅采取这些简单措施并不能让你的企业存活下来。因此，2013年正是公司从心态上进行颠覆性转变的黄金阶段。

Open Innovation relies on collaboration to achieve success. To determine which firm is the best suited to be an innovation partner, small and medium-sized entities (SMEs) should consider using an approach modeled on the “Want, Find, Get, Manage” methodology developed by Alliance Management Group (AMG). Because of their unique characteristics, broadly summarized as limited resources,SMEs should substitute “want, find and get” with “need, know and negotiate.” Capable and stable management remains a constant.

This series of articles has explored the definition and scope of innovation governance as well as the different organizational models that companies typically choose to allocate responsibility for innovation. This last article will discuss questions linked to the perceived general effectiveness or inadequacy of innovation governance endeavors, and it will characterize the managers’ level of satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the various organizational models that their companies have adopted.

Despite a detailed process with countless hours of work, and sincere efforts to take a longer-term, strategic look at where to play and how to win, many businesses fail to anticipate fundamental shifts that should cause them to rethink their entire business model. The results are often disastrous – too many businesses end up on life support. This article presents a new concept called “Competitive Fingerprints” that will allow readers to anticipate shifts and adapt their business model to capitalize on future market realities.

Many organizations are recognizing the power of involving much larger and diverse groups in enterprise innovation. Some company cultures react well to the initiative, others are much more cautious. Building a sustainable culture where everyone’s happy to share ideas and contribute to company challenges can be tough for innovation professionals. Join us on June 11 to learn more and to hear the expert panel share their experiences, tips and tactics for getting everyone ‘on-board’ and engaged in their enterprise innovation programs.

Depending on the people involved, their motivations, and the phase of the moon, you may or may not find fertile ground for the practice of collaborative innovation. In this article innovation architect Doug Collins explores the fecund places that you, as a practitioner, may want to think about planting your seed of ideation to ensure a bountiful harvest.

Rechazando la limitante creencia de que la innovación es trabajo únicamente de Investigación y Desarrollo, los líderes de las empresas altamente innovadoras se esfuerzan bastante en inculcar que “la innovación es trabajo de todos” como una misión de la organización. En este artículo, los co-creadores del acelerador de innovación, Jeff Dyer y Hal Gregersen comparten ideas y ejemplos a seguir para asegurar que la innovación comienza desde la parte superior y llega a la parte inferior de la organización.

The world we live in is changing at a dizzying rate and sectors including energy, technology, entertainment, communications, finance, sports, manufacturing and engineering are all experiencing shifts on a seismic scale. Many of the innovative advances of the past ten years, from smart phones to digital cameras have become commoditised and creativity has become the currency of success. In this article author Matthew Griffin showsdemostrates how large and small organisations alike can build lean, agile, high performance innovations teams and brance any shift successfully.

While most of the world’s airlines and markets suffer low growth rates, Asia stands out with growth rates of 9% in 2012. Asia is one of the most competitive aviation markets with 75% of routes serviced by 3 or more carriers. Seven of the ten busiest global air routes are in Asia.

当各个行业的创新领导者聚集在一起讨论全球范围内创新的发展进程时，一个共同的话题就出现了。公司的经营活动不管是扩展到周边国家还是飞洋越海到更远的国家，进入国外市场始终需要“超越核心能力”，即需要发展新的能力。一个解决这个问题的原则是首先要认可技能，而不是人。

If you want to innovate with a process or a service then try focusing on this word – rearrange. Describe your current process as a series of steps. Draw them out as a block diagram. Now try moving the blocks around and see where this leads.

创新是人类活动的产物。创新使生活充满了乐趣。总的来说，创新来源于创意能力：来源于一个新思想或者新创意的产生。在接下来的文章中，创新管理理论的先驱者罗伯特布兰斯与我们分享了一些思想管理的技巧,以此来帮助公司重新产生创意创意。

Research from Jean-Philippe Deschamps, Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at IMD, indicates that there are at least nine possible models of innovation governance, some of which are more widely used than others. This second article in a series of three on the topic of Innovation Governance will review the various governance approaches or “models” that companies have put in place.