Although not part of the typical topics of my blog, I ran across this quote and couldn’t resist. It was in ForbesLife Executive Woman (Summer 2008) on the hectic schedule and professional accomplishments of April… Read more »
Archives for June 2008
Change the Way You Create Value—Rita McGrath’s post republished by Business Week.com
Change the Way you Create Value Rita McGrath’s most recent post as a discussion leader at the Harvard Business Publishing blog, has been re-published by Business Week. Executives often complain that politics, embedded systems, and… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning: Getting a handle on key metrics
A critical part of a discovery driven plan is understanding your assumptions about what makes some assumptions more important than others. This gets into the question of what we call your ‘key metrics’ – the… Read more »
Streamline Training endorses Discovery Driven Planning
Streamline Training endorses Discovery Driven Planning outlining the five-step process for pursuing a new venture in a way that controls risk in what is an inherently uncertain situation. Click here for the entire blog, and… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning: Calculating a “BareBones” Net Present Value (NPV)
Although Net Present Value calculations are often blamed for companies’ under-investing in innovation projects, and are a big problem for people trying to drive growth into new areas, it can be useful to get some… Read more »
Discovery Driven Marketing Planning in the Health care area
Here’s another group using Discovery Driven Planning – in this case to develop better marketing plans for health care information technology clients. What I found interesting about their approach is that they contrast the DDP… Read more »
Another application for discovery driven planning: Business Intelligence Projects
One of the neat things about discovery driven planning is watching how it has become popular with quite a large set of consultants, venture managers, entrepreneurs and other people for whom conventional planning is just… Read more »
It’s hard to grow a socially unpopular core business
The Wall Street Journal yesterday reported that Altria had, after a three-year trial, pulled the plug on a whole line of Marlboro products intended to be safer for smokers than the conventional cigarettes. As the… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning: A lesson by a marketing consultant
One explanation for somewhat sparse postings these days is that I’m busy completing our new book, Discovery Driven Growth. Can’t say too much about it (publishers get irate) but in the course of researching the… Read more »
Entrepreneurial Mindset on Steve Blank’s List of the Best Books for Building a Startup
Entrepreneur Steve Blank has recommended Entrepreneurial Mindset as one of the best strategy books for startups: “The Entrepreneurial Mindset articulates the critically important idea that there are different types of startup opportunities. The notion of… Read more »
Entrepreneurial Mindset on Steve Blank’s List of the Best Books for Building a Startup
Entrepreneur Steve Blank has recommended Entrepreneurial Mindset as one of the best strategy books for startups: “The Entrepreneurial Mindset articulates the critically important idea that there are different types of startup opportunities. The notion of… Read more »
Business Week article cites Discovery Driven Planning
A June 16, 2008 BusinessWeek article entitled Demystifying Web 2.0, refers to discovery-driven planning: “It’s discovery-driven business planning rather than the old-fashioned planning that comes from the top down. Entrepreneurs are particularly good with this… Read more »