Rita McGrath’s blog at Harvard Business Publishing entitled Absorb Their Uncertainty — And Get Your People Unstuck was picked up by the Washington Post in an article entitled Time to Quit Your Job?
Archives for 2008
Green: Nice while it lasted?
Only the blink of an eye ago, it seems, you couldn’t open a paper or read a magazine without someone talking about how ‘green’ their businesses were and how environmentalism has become a top-line concern. … Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning: Most barriers to growth are self-inflicted
I am spending today with a very well-managed, large company, and even here the long fingers of the economic slowdown are creating even more obstacles to innovation – led growth than in more ‘normal’ times…. Read more »
Characteristics of Winner-Take-All Markets: A Change in the Basis of Competition
Rita Gunther McGrath’s And the Winner Takes it All? Necessary Conditions and Entry Strategies in Winner-Take-All Market, in Strategy, Innovation, and Change: Challenges for Management has been quoted at the Business Innovation blog. To read… Read more »
Characteristics of Winner-Take-All Markets: A Change in the Basis of Competition
Rita Gunther McGrath’s And the Winner Takes it All? Necessary Conditions and Entry Strategies in Winner-Take-All Market, in Strategy, Innovation, and Change: Challenges for Management has been quoted at the Business Innovation blog. To read… Read more »
Tightwad Bank: A Lesson in Branding
Entrepreneur’s story about Tightwad Bank in Tightwad, MO quotes Rita McGrath: using a different kind of name is a “strategy that’s used by many firms to add an empathic or emotional appeal to their products… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning & Teaching in Non-Degree Executive Education Programs
I’m just here at the Strategic Management Society’s annual conference in Cologne. It’s a meeting which aspires to bring together academics, consultants and business-people for fruitful dialogue and exchanges, although in fairness the tilt does… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning: Why I like the term ‘business model’
I rather like the term business model because in my view it suggests a change to the way that we conceive of, create, and execute strategies. In highly uncertain, complex and fast-moving environments, strategies are… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning: Good new book on Innovation
It’s always a welcome moment when a new perspective on innovation is offered from the folks over at Clayton Christensen’s Innosight consulting firm. They’ve just recently published a new book, The Innovator’s Guide to Growth… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning: Not just for new businesses any more
The headlines are all around us – I just returned from a fascinating session in Seattle at the Microsoft Global Chief Information Officer summit to a pile of newspapers screaming “Washington Mutual Goes Under” and… Read more »
Business Insights Blog: Interview with Rita McGrath
Business Insights blog is publishing excerpts from an interview with Rita McGrath: “In order to avoid becoming complacent with your clients, you’ve got to keep your eyes open. Creating benchmarks in the market will help… Read more »
Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan cited in Forbes
The Forbes article excerpts From Strategy to Execution: Turning Accelerated Global Change into Opportunity by Clayton Christensen and cites Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan as follows: “Instead, companies should focus on progress-tracking metrics such as… Read more »