Innovation Killers (journal article)
by Clayton M. Christensen, Stephen P. Kaufman and Willy C. Shih
from Harvard Business Review, Vol. 86 No. 1, January 2008, pp. 98-105
"Most companies aren't half as innovative as their senior executives want them to be (or as their marketing claims suggest they are). What's stifling innovation? There are plenty of usual suspects, but the authors finger three financial tools as key accomplices. ... The authors recommend alternative methods that can help managers innovate with a much more astute eye for future value. "