Innovation calls for adding features to products. After all, more is better, right? Not always. One of the five techniques used in an innovation method called Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT) is ...

Can people make things better by subtracting from what exists? As examined in research by Darden Professor Gabrielle Adams, when people are trying to solve a problem, they focus on what they might add ...

From how we build our cities to how we shop, it can seem as though our natural human tendency is to add. But a culture of accumulation may be exactly what holds us back from the simple solution in ...

In 1997, when Steve Jobs came back to rescue Apple [AAPL], he removed several thousand middle managers. He couldn’t see that they were doing anything useful for customers. Without those middle ...