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 »
Archives for April 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 »
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?
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »