Innovation at Procter & Gamble

Over the past seven years, Procter & Gamble has tripled profits; significantly improved organic revenue growth, cash flow, and operating margins; and averaged earnings per share growth of 12 percent. How? A. G. Lafley, Chairman and CEO, Procter & Gamble, and his leadership team have integrated innovation into everything P&G does and created new customers [...]

Business, Innovation

Technology’s Long Tail

Chris Anderson, the editor of WIRED, explores the four key stages of any viable technology: setting the right price, gaining market share, displacing an established technology and, finally, becoming ubiquitous. To demonstrate this trajectory, Anderson explores the evolution of the DVD player as it passes through each of these four tipping points, then offers specific [...]

Business, Technology