Scott D. Anthony, president of Innosight, an innovation consulting and investing company with offices in Massachusetts, Singapore, and India poses that question at the Harvard Business Publishing blog and mentions Rita McGrath as one of… Read more »
Archives for 2008
Mapping the Consumption Chain
The http://www.unitedbit.com blog has posted a three-part series from a McGrath-MacMillan excerpt on Mapping the Consumption Chain. “Most profitable strategies are built on differentiation: offering customers something they value that competitors don’t have. A company… Read more »
Wall Street Journal cites McGrath article “For Further Reading”
In its July 7, 2008 article, In Search of Growth Leaders, the Wall Street Journal cites the 2006 article by Rita McGrath, Thomas Keil and Taina Tukiainen Extracting Value from Corporate Venturing, for further reading…. Read more »
Wall Street Journal cites McGrath article “For Further Reading”
In its July 7, 2008 article, In Search of Growth Leaders, the Wall Street Journal cites the 2006 article by Rita McGrath, Thomas Keil and Taina Tukiainen Extracting Value from Corporate Venturing, for further reading…. Read more »
Connecting HR with Competitive Advantage
Rita McGrath posted at the Harvard Business Publishing blog: A recent piece in the Wall Street Journal—“HR Departments Get New Star Power at Some Firms”—noted that some forward-thinking companies are dramatically increasing the weight, importance,… Read more »
MarketBusters is a Best Seller in China!
CEO-Read reports that MarketBusters is their top seller in China! For more detail, click here.
Women mentoring women
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 »
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 »