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Archives for April 2011

April 29, 2011

Free Webinar On Business Model Challenges and Innovation

Business Model Erosion and Innovation to combat this phenomenon is very much a topic of concern for strategists and innovators.  In this free half-hour webinar sponsored by Columbia Business School Executive Education, I reflect on… Read more »

Filed Under: Executive Education, Innovation, Videos

April 28, 2011

Thought for the day on developing people

A LinkedIn exchange that was forwarded to me by a colleague:   What happens if we invest in developing our people and then they leave the company?"   CEO answers, 'What happens if we don't,… Read more »

Filed Under: Executive Education

April 25, 2011

Intelligent Failure Noted in The Economist

In an article published in the April 16 Economist, the positive side of failure, as featured in a recent special issue of the Harvard Business Review is discussed.  Interesting reading for those of us who… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation, Profitable Organic Growth

April 25, 2011

Rita McGrath quoted on Legal Technology Today blog

At Legal Technology Today, Rita McGrath’s Harvard Business Review Failing by Design principles are cited as an approach to testing compliance systems. “[Rita McGrath] cites to the term of intelligent failure which she believes can… Read more »

Filed Under: News Archives

April 19, 2011

Questions from my webinar on Intelligent Failure

I just wrapped up a webinar on the topic of failing by design, which is the subject of a recent artilce in the Harvard Business Review.  There were some quite interesting questions asked during the… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation, Innovation Flops, Profitable Organic Growth

April 15, 2011

New Product Flops - Dear to My Heart, as always

Over at the HBR blog, there is a terrific article entitled "Why Most New Product Launches Fail" which offers a fascinating perspective on the predictable, and sometimes avoidable, ills that can befall something new.  Among… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation, Innovation Flops

April 13, 2011

Failing toward Success at Google

In the latest Harvard Business Review, I made the argument that failures can be useful in that they teach us where our assumptions are wrong, expose dead ends, and generally can give us something of… Read more »

Filed Under: News Archives

April 12, 2011

Complimentary webinar on recent HBR article “failing by design” April 19 1pm

Join me in an on-line discussion of the recent HBR article, "Failing By Design."  The webinar will help attendees understand the concept of intelligent failure, in which when inevitably, things don't go as you expect, you… Read more »

Filed Under: Executive Education, Innovation

April 9, 2011

Quote of the Day from the album KMAG YOYO (which is a rather rude military acronym)

Just bought this album by the irreverent Hayes Carll and laughed out loud at this bittersweet line:  "Boy, you're not a poet, just a drunkard with a pen!" Hey, we can't be serious all the time!

Filed Under: Fun

April 8, 2011

Analysts or business designers in today’s strategy work?

A LinkedIn Question went like this: Is business strategy as we teach it in Harvard Case Studies Obsolete? Do we need to develop business designers and not strategic planners?   Traditioal strategic planning takes a… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Profitable Organic Growth

April 8, 2011

Humanities Graduates Bring …well…Humanity to Bear at Work

I thought this extremely thought provoking blog post by fellow Harvard Blogger Tony Golsby-Smith  was a great reminder that although analytical tools and frameworks can help solve certain kinds of problems, they are hopeless facing other situations…. Read more »

Filed Under: News Archives, Strategy Execution

April 6, 2011

Rita McGrath quoted in Variety!

In a post at Variety.com entitled Fear of failure stifles biz innovation, Rita McGrath is quoted: “Executives hide mistakes or pretend the mistakes were always part of the master plan,” writes Rita Gunther McGrath. “Failures… Read more »

Filed Under: News Archives

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