For decades suggestion systems have been used include employees in innovation process. However, in order to gather superior ideas, integrating external stakeholders is critical to the innovation process. Wwwithin this paper the authors derive a sophisticated model of an integrated idea...

"Strong brands are more profitable!" An actual study – where heads of marketing and salesfrom the European Top 500 companies were interviewed – shows that brand-oriented companiesare almost twice as successful as comparable companies without this focus. Hence, themost important companies...

The picture of managers in big enterprises has fundamentally changed in the last decades. Informer times, there was assumed that these persons are “extraordinary” human beings: alwaysabsolutely rational and objective, almost like machines. But in the course of time, this imagechanged in such...

Corporate innovation management geared to long-term success calls for a strategy to grow innovations into a substantial competitive advantage. This, however, coincides with an enormous failure-rate at the market, especially in the field of breakthrough innovations...