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Innovation is actually a business skill that executives and employees can develop and master.
So says Booz & Company management consultants Barry Jaruzelski, John Loehr, and Richard Holman. The authors of Booz's annual "Global Innovation 1,000 report" named the most innovative companies in the world for 2012 and studied what makes them so.
In addition to looking at what these 1,000 companies do right, it also surveyed some 700 companies not on the list to find out how they come up with new products and services.