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 »
Archives for April 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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!
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 »
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 »
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 »