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Archives for April 2008

April 30, 2008

Spike in fiscal year-end spending driven by use-it-or-lose-it mentality

Rita McGrath contributed to the article Spike in fiscal year-end spending driven by use-it-or-lose-it mentality at GovPro.com: “I vividly recall people rushing into my office pleading for fast-track treatment for proposed purchases because ‘the fiscal… Read more »

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April 30, 2008

Spike in fiscal year-end spending driven by use-it-or-lose-it mentality

Rita McGrath contributed to the article Spike in fiscal year-end spending driven by use-it-or-lose-it mentality at GovPro.com: “I vividly recall people rushing into my office pleading for fast-track treatment for proposed purchases because ‘the fiscal… Read more »

Filed Under: News Archives

April 28, 2008

Who’s Disrupting the Gaming Industry?

Rita McGrath is a regular Discussion Leader at the Harvard Business Publishing blog.  Read her April 27th posting on Who’s Disrupting the Gaming Industry?

Filed Under: Uncategorized

April 27, 2008

Turning the insurance business model on its head:  FM Global

Fast Company, a magazine that often uncovers little gems, reports on a unique business model being pursued by insurance giant FM Global.  Instead of deploying armies of actuaries to predict the risk of certain types… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation

April 21, 2008

Jigsaw – creating a market for contact information

Anne Ferguson, my assistant, drew this one to my attention.  The company in question, Jigsaw, is trying to create a market for contact information, using a variant of the ‘free labor’ theme I’ve written about… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation, Opportunities

April 21, 2008

Testing some key assumptions – second home market early warnings

Fortune, in their April 28, 2008 issue, printed a little statistic that struck me as valuable in terms of the sort of data one could use to test assumptions, but which often go unnoticed.  They… Read more »

Filed Under: Discovery Driven Planning

April 21, 2008

Testing some key assumptions - second home market early warnings

Fortune, in their April 28, 2008 issue, printed a little statistic that struck me as valuable in terms of the sort of data one could use to test assumptions, but which often go unnoticed.  They… Read more »

Filed Under: Discovery Driven Planning

April 21, 2008

Michelin PAX Run-Flat: A stillborn revolution

This weekend’s New York Times carried the sad headline, “Michelin Giving Up on PAX Run-Flat Tire.”.  So much for an innovation that was supposed to revolutionize the tire industry, in much the same way that… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation

April 17, 2008

How To Lead Growth in Difficult Times video interview

Rita McGrath recently spoke at the IESE Business School in Madrid, Spain where she gave a video interview on the topic of the event: How to Lead Growth in Difficult Times. In the interview, she… Read more »

Filed Under: News Archives

April 17, 2008

Fast Company:  Making Innovation Work

Rita McGrath’s letter to Fast Company regarding their article Making Innovation Work is published in the April 2008 issue: “Your article on Bell Labs innovation (“Mad Scientist,” February) was spot-on. The notion of approaching innovation… Read more »

Filed Under: News Archives

April 16, 2008

Yikes! Putting your core business in discovery mode: BlockBuster and Circuit City

The unsolicited attempt by video rental chain Blockbuster to take over electronics retailer Circuit City looks like a pretty desperate move.  In short, a company that prospered with the rise of the whole rent-it-out couch… Read more »

Filed Under: Discovery Driven Planning, Growth Options / Real Options, Innovation

April 4, 2008

Discovery Driven Strategy:  Predicting the Path for a Toy Shop

Many of you know that I’ve been following the progress of G. Willikers, a toy shop that opened in Sacramento, CA, in the summer of 2006.  I got interested in their story initially by an… Read more »

Filed Under: Uncategorized

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