Understanding investor psychology can be baffling and frustrating for the managers of publicly traded corporations. For instance, despite what many would regard as a stellar track record of proven performance, CEO Mark Fields was fired at Ford. Apparently, the company’s success at making vehicles like its 150 truck the ride of choice for wealthy Americans…
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An #Innovation Maturity Scale – Where does your organization stand?
One of the projects I’ve been working on is to create a set of metrics that organizations can use to measure their level of innovation maturity. We’re piloting it with my Leading Strategic Growth and Change program which runs next beginning on May 15, in New York City (there is still time to sign up…
Forum for Dynamic Innovation at Columbia Event January 10
The last few years have seen a resurgence of what Steve Blank and other startups folks call ‘innovation theater‘. On January 10, I’ll be chatting with Steve and transformative CEO of HarperCollins, Brian Murray, about what comes next. You can read about the event details and register at this link. Under the heading the ‘Forum for…
Growth insights in a 45 minute Facebook live session!
No Powerpoints, no notes, just the team at Harvard Business Review, terrific and astute questions from viewers and a white board. Check out this free Facebook Live session that has already garnered over 132,000 views. In more news – For those with an interest, our Mastering Corporate Entrepreneurship OnLine course is now in beta – let us know if…
Innovation and Jobs-to-be-Done discussed in my latest newsletter
My latest newsletter offers observations and ideas that were discussed at two CEO Summits sponsored by Innosight and featuring keynotes by Clayton Christensen and myself. We discussed Clay’s terrific new book, Competing Against Luck, some of my ideas regarding the management of portfolios of innovation and how to tackle innovation challenges generally. Have a look…
Why managing an opportunity portfolio leads to surprising investment decisions
There is no shortage of interesting strategic activity going on in the intertwining worlds of content creation, telecommunications and other forms of distribution. The recent sales of AOL and Yahoo! to Verizon are representative of a class of strategic moves that make sense in high-uncertainty environments in which anticipating, rather than predicting, is the requirement.…
Now in development: Mastering Corporate Entrepreneurship On-Line
What if you could take teams of people or individual contributors with an innovation mandate and have them go through a state of the art, hands-on and very applied journey through the essence of innovation in the convenience of an on-line format? Part executive development program, part coaching program and part real-time learning, the vision…
Looking forward to the mach49 Mothership Blitz on Friday
As someone who has spent much of my life watching organizations fall victim to what I call the ‘transient advantage‘ economy, I’ve always been puzzled that despite its obvious importance, large organizations do a lot more talking about innovation than actually doing it. When you dig a little deeper, what quickly becomes clear is that most…
How do we get our middle managers back into a growth mindset?
It’s been five or more years since the Great recession walloped economies all over the world, with the result that for many companies it has been a time of doing not very much but cost-cutting, downsizing, divesting and otherwise holding on to what business they can by their fingernails. Now, as things are slowly starting…
Recording of Webinar “How the Growth Outliers Do It” now available
Last month, Columbia Executive Education sponsored a webinar based on my Harvard Business Review article about growth outliers. A webinar based on that article has been recorded. If you missed the original, feel free to tune in by clicking here.