The Upside of Uncertainty: A Guide to Finding Possibility in the Unknown. A science-backed guide for navigating and thriving through uncertainty—based on interviews and insights from world-renowned leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, artists, and creatives….Read more »
Nathan Furr
Nathan Furr is a professor of strategy and innovation at INSEAD (Paris) and a recognized expert in the fields of innovation and technology strategy. Professor Furr earned his PhD from Stanford University and studies how established companies innovate and how they navigate change, particularly technology change such as digital transformation.
He has published award-winning books and articles in Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, and in other academic and practitioner outlets. He also helps put together the Forbes list of the world's most innovative leaders and most innovative companies and has worked with leading companies from across industries--including Google and Amazon to study and implement innovation strategies.
On the teaching front, Professor Furr established INSEAD's flagship courses on digital transformation, innovation, and technology strategy. He has also cofounded the International Business Model Competition, which attracts more than 2,500 teams from more than 250 universities around the world, and the Innovator's DNA, an organization devoted to building innovation capabilities in established companies.
Innovation Capital
How to Compete–and Win–Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders
Great leaders of innovation know that creativity is not enough. They succeed not only on the basis of their ideas, but because they have the vision, reputation, and networks to win the backing needed to commercialize them. It turns out that this quality–called “innovation capital”–is measurably more important for innovation than just being creative….Read more »
Leading Transformation
How to Take Charge of Your Company’s Future: New Tools to Overcome the Human Barriers to Change
Leaders know that their job is to transform their organizations to keep pace with technology and an ever-changing business environment. They also know that they are bound to fail in doing so. But this discouraging prospect is not because they won’t be able to solve a technological or strategic problem. Leaders will fail because of intractable human responses associated with change–responses such as fear, ingrained habits, politics, incrementalism, and lack of imagination….Read more »
The Innovator’s Method
Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization
Have you ever come up with an idea for a new product or service but didn’t take any action because you thought it would be too risky? Or at work, have you had what you thought could be a big idea for your company—perhaps changing the way you develop or distribute a product, provide customer service, or hire and train your employees? If you have, but you haven’t known how to take the next step, you need to understand what the authors call the innovator’s method…Read more »
Nail It Then Scale It
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation: The lean startup book to help entrepreneurs launch a high-growth business
Why do most new businesses fail, yet a few entrepreneurs have a habit of winning over and over again? The shocking discovery of years of research and trial is that most startups fail by doing the “right things,” but doing them out of order. In other words, human nature combined with our entrepreneurial drive puts us on autopilot to become part of the 70% to 90% of ventures that fail….Read more »