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Archives for 2011

May 12, 2011

CorporateRain.com praises Failing by Design blog

Tim Askew in a MakingRain post praises the Harvard Business Review April magazine’s theme on Failure, and cites Rita McGrath’s Failing By Design blog: “I in no way mean to say that failure, per se,… Read more »

Filed Under: News Archives

May 11, 2011

Back to the Boneyard

Rita McGrath’s blog at Harvard Business Review is entitled Back to the Boneyard — Palm, Flip…and now RIM?. “Things move quickly in technology, which is why technology companies are fascinating to strategists the way fruit… Read more »

Filed Under: News Archives

May 9, 2011

Strategic Innovation Does Not Equal Dollars Spent

My colleague Gray Hammond sent along this interesting coverage of innovative companies, and I thought it might be of interest to my readers as well. Booz & Company’s latest annual study of global innovation, The… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation

May 4, 2011

An Internet Kissing Machine? Oh brother, what’s next. Wait, Maybe I Don’t Want to Know…

Believe it or not, reports have surfaced that a group of Japanese researchers are hard at work on an Internet Kissing Machine.  Yes, apparently, two people equipped with the devices can exchange more than just… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation

May 4, 2011

An Internet Kissing Machine? Oh brother, what’s next. Wait, Maybe I Don’t Want to Know…

Believe it or not, reports have surfaced that a group of Japanese researchers are hard at work on an Internet Kissing Machine.  Yes, apparently, two people equipped with the devices can exchange more than just… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation

May 2, 2011

Say It Ain’t So: The Shortening Half Life of the Business School Case Study

We in business school just love to use examples.  It’s examples, stories and personal insights that make what we teach accessible, inspiring and sometimes game-changing.  Along the way, many of these great stories get written… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation, News Archives

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

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