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 »
Thought Sparks
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.
Academy of Management - Which List Matters More?
So here I am in Montreal at the annual Academy of Management meeting. It struck me with great interest that the offiical program (a phone book sized effort with program sessions, times, all the important… Read more »
Podcast Interview with the Kellogg Venture Community
August 1, 2010Host David Nosnik welcomes Rita McGrath, Professor at Columbia Business School and an expert in the fields of innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategy in volatile and uncertain environments. She is a noted author. Her… Read more »
CIO Magazine picks up on Discovery Driven Growth
August 3, 2010Discovery Driven Growth principles are featured in CIO Magazine, among them the need to avoid making big commitments to projects before you have tested assumptions!
Discovery Driven Growth - Mistakes Companies Make
CIO Magazine's recent blog post features a summary of some of the principles of Discovery Driven Growth, and links the idea to concepts of IT agility. Wouldn't it be great if CIO's and CFO's could… Read more »
Real job creation - should be required reading from Andy Grove
This article – "How to Make an American Job" should be required reading for everyone concerned about the state of our industrial commons. And many are (see this terrific post and related Harvard Business Review article by… Read more »
Brilliant reflections on skunkworks
Ah, skunkworks. Those small, agile units beloved of large organizations looking for the Next New Idea. I've written about them in the past – and outlined some of the pitfalls of setting them up and… Read more »
Eroding advantage at Motorola
My colleague Alex van Putten was kind enough to forward along this interesting image from a report written by the Silicon Alley Insider. It visually depicts the fast erosion of Motorola's competitiveness in the phone… Read more »