Esteemed colleague and co-author MacMillan will be giving a talk in Philadelphia on Nov. 18. Check out the details here..
Discovery Driven Planning
Heard on the Street - Discovery Driven Planning Changes Leadership Decisions - at Harvard, no less!
One of our dear colleagues at Wharton happened to be teaching at a conference up at Harvard Business School. He was kind enough to report the following exchange to us: Dear Mac – I just… Read more »
Plan on paper, not with live ammunition
John Caddell, in a recent review notes that when using Discovery Driven Growth principles, planning should happen on paper, rather than in ways that are expensive and potentially risky. Hear Hear!
Discovery Driven Growth Going to India
In a nice comment on some of the core ideas in Discovery Driven Growth, a blogger from the Hindu Business Line describes a point we make in the book as useful. That is that you… Read more »
Mind-mapping to accompany our article on rethinking your business
Among other interesting news this week, which included the publication of a book review in Wharton at Work, is the appearance of our co-authored article on how to rethink your business during uncertainty in the… Read more »
Be unafraid to change your mind - when new data come in
One of the core tenets of a discovery driven approach to decision-making is that under conditions of high uncertainty, striving to be “right” can lead you very much astray. Being right, in the sense of… Read more »
Discovery Driven Growth soon to be available in a Kindle edition
Our publishers over at Harvard Business Publishing have arranged for Discovery Driven Growth to be available in a Kindle version within the next 2-6 weeks (so sometime before the end of April, 2009). I would… Read more »
Discovery Driven Growth: Systematic Mistakes in planning new ventures (Interview)
Jeremy Dann a talented observer of the technology and innovation scene and a fellow sometime academic has been following the ideas we’ve talked about in Discovery Driven Growth as well as themes we’ve developed in… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning – BareBones NPV calculator tools
Hello there. Many of you have expressed an interest in the “BareBones” NPV calculator that we use in Discovery Driven Growth. We’re just getting up on that web site now, but those of you who… Read more »
How an education entrepreneur used discovery driven planning
It’s always great to find out that discovery driven planning has been used to good effect. In today’s entrepreneurs’ profile from the Harbus, which is Harvard Business School’s student weekly, one of their student entrepreneurs,… Read more »
Rita presenting Discovery Driven Growth at SXSW
The link to the listing is here.
Discovery Driven Planning - a resource for social entrepreneurs
We are often asked how to apply discovery driven planning concepts to not-for-profit and social enterprises. I recently ran across the book Enterprising Nonprofits which uses the technique to apply to growing socially important businesses. … Read more »