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CEOs today face mounting pressures to innovate; yet finding ways to actually enable innovation remains a challenge for many. Top companies with successful track records of innovation, however, have discovered one possible solution.

Lean Six Sigma, a relatively well-known approach for achieving operational excellence, can, as it turns out, do more than simply improve processes. It can help leaders discover innovation opportunities far beyond operations, enhance financial performance and create organizations that have an inherent inclination toward innovation.

Amazon Kindle 2
One of the most anticipated debuts of the year has been the Kindle 2, the e-book reader from Amazon.com. Pirated photos of the device had been appearing for weeks on the tech blogs, but the big questions weren’t answered until the second Monday in February when Jeff Bezos introduced his new reader.

It’s a better machine, but the revolution isn’t on yet because the changes involve small improvements. Many believe the evolution of e-readers will only fire up as a true revolution after someone produces a $100 reader and e-books are priced well below their paper cousins.

Sitting comfortably in his Cupertino office, Apple's CEO Steve Jobs reviewed the media coverage of a new eBook Reader being developed. When asked about the unveiling of Amazon's Kindle in a 2009 interview with the New York Times, he had responded, “It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don't read anymore. Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.” In fact, a recent polling done by the National Endowment for the Arts claimed that only 57% of Americans read a book in 2002, 4% less than the previous decade.

Eleven of the top leaders from the largest food and beverage company in the U.S. talk about their three-year turnaround and their campaign to reorganize for growth.

Banks establish school-based bank savings programs as financial education initiatives to help students learn about the importance of saving and other money management topics. This edition of Community Developments Insights discusses how school-based bank savings programs operate.

Money launderers constantly are seeking new methods to perpetuate their schemes, providing endless challenges to struggling financial institutions. Money laundering has become so permeated throughout the financial sector that getting to the source has become increasingly difficult.

This paper subjects Joseph Nye’s advocacy of soft power (recently repackaged as ‘smart’ power) to critical scrutiny, and reflects on the implications for US global leadership.