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The Eight Core Principles of Strategic Innovation

Gina Colarelli O’Connor & Christopher Meyer

MIT Sloan Management Review2026https://doi.org/10.63383/smfx7330article
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Most successful companies start off with a bang — an exciting breakthrough innovation. As time passes, their focus shifts to maintaining and improving existing business lines. To prevent their decline in today’s economy, mature companies need to build a permanent capability for strategic innovation. Research on mature companies that have maintained a flow of innovation has uncovered what that capability consists of and how to build it.

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@article{gina2026,
  title        = {{The Eight Core Principles of Strategic Innovation}},
  author       = {Gina Colarelli O’Connor & Christopher Meyer},
  journal      = {MIT Sloan Management Review},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.63383/smfx7330},
}

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0.50

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F · citation impact0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20
M · momentum0.50 × 0.15 = 0.07
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