A Financial Times article entitled How do I get my staff to kick their post-holiday blues? quoted Rita McGrath: Post-holiday let-down is emotional and requires an emotional response. Break the re-entry into three stages: catching… Read more »
Archives for August 2010
An application of Discovery Driven Planning by one of Mac’s students
Mac teaches Discovery Driven Planning in his entrepreneurship classes at Wharton, and received the following story about how one of his students applied DDP: Mac, I took your MGMT 802 class earlier this year. I'm… Read more »
Rita McGrath quoted in TechNewsWorld
The National Association of Broadcasters wants mobile phones to turn on the radio. Rita McGrath contributed her thoughts to this prospect here.
Video about “Leading Strategic Growth and Change” now up on YouTube
Leading Strategic Growth and Change is a week-long Columbia Executive Education program that I direct. The course content, as you might guess, covers innovation, how to drive growth, how to lead change, organizational politics, better… Read more »
Discovery-Driven Planning cited by Freemium Blog
Peter Froberg in Copenhagen posted to his Freemium blog on the topic of Design thinking and business model innovation “I have been working with methods based on Discovery Driven Planning. It is essentially a framework… Read more »
Fascinating application of discovery driven planning to social ventures
My dear colleagues Jim Thompson and Ian MacMillan have just published a fascinating description of their work on social entrepreneurship, entitled "Making Social Ventures Work". It's a neat usage of discovery driven planning in an… Read more »
Harvard Business Review Blog Post—Anatomy of a Failed Launch
It is always instructive to examine how successful firms can go wrong, even in markets that they think they understand well. The market failure of the Michelin run-flat PAX tire illustrates the common mistake of… Read more »
Harvard Business Review Blog Post—Anatomy of a Failed Launch
It is always instructive to examine how successful firms can go wrong, even in markets that they think they understand well. The market failure of the Michelin run-flat PAX tire illustrates the common mistake of… Read more »
Sagantia Innovation Boot Camp - Kick Starting Innovation
Sagantia is a UK based technology and product development company that I've been studying as part of the research for a new project. Among the many interesting things they do is run an innovation boot… Read more »
Fun post by George Colony on the primacy of design
Back when I was a doctoral student, I did a neat semester long project on design thinking. It got me to the point where I almost believed that great design is the uber discipline, the… Read more »
Amazon into hardware? Not so sure about that one…
The Wall Street Journal's digital network reports that Amazon is hiring hardware engineers and plotting a move to combat Apple's iPad in the hardware space. I can only react with surprise – if the story… Read more »
Resource Scavenger — A Common Innovation Job
Read Rita McGrath’s most recent Harvard Business Press blog entitled Resource Scavenger – A Common Innovation Job.