For every wheeled suitcase or pre-washed salad in a bag, there's a Ford Edsel or an Apple Newton big ideas that flopped. Here, three innovation experts share their views on why large companies so frequently stumble on the path to something big.

A study of US labor productivity in the years following the dot-com collapse finds that the lion's share of productivity growth continues to come from only a few sectors. But research by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) concludes that productivity is growing in more sectors now than in the late 1990s.

Sometimes building growth in mature industries means more than simple product extensions or acquisitions. The answer? Develop "growth platforms" that extend your business into new domains. An excerpt from Harvard Business Review.

Imagine that you are the newly installed CEO at a company which has done well in the past but is now complacent, stodgy and risk averse.  Agile competitors are threatening and you have identified that you need to change the culture to be more adventurous, creative, entrepreneurial and innovative.  What should you do?