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Harnessing the Secret Structure of Innovation

March 24, 2017 | Martin Reeves | Strategy

Innovation, much like marketing and human resources, can be made less reliant on artful intuition by using information in new ways. But this requires a change in perspective: We need to view innovation not as the product of luck or extraordinary vision but as the result of a deliberate search process.

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