Rosabeth Moss Kanter, global-business guru and professor at the Harvard Business School, made creativity and innovation central to a speech she delivered at the CSC Exchange in Boston in July. At CIO , we've always felt driven to improve on what we've done before. That's hard even in stable times. Today, when competitors are springing up in the most unlikely places and customers have all the choices in the world, it's a bear. Kanter and Peters urge businesspeople to look to the fringe for new competition and ideas.
Innovation is key to all three.
In many cases, innovation has nothing to do with the core product. Tapping into people's creativity requires a spirit of play. Here are five phenomena Kanter sees driving global business. Increasing mobility of the resources needed to do business, including capital and labor. The best and the latest can be known anywhere in the world.