The Nasscom Emerge blog cites “Ian MacMillan and Rita McGrath (both taught at a Spring 08 Columbia Business School program I attended) in an HBR article say ‘Most profitable strategies are built on differentiation: offering… Read more »
Thought Sparks
Are the Dynamics of Innovation Changing?
At the Total Executive blog, the author cites the 2006 Sloan Management Review article Extracting Value from Corporate Venturing authored by Rita Gunther McGrath, Thomas Keil and Taina Tukiainen: “Executives wax and wane in their… Read more »
Discovery-Driven Growth is Product Flop Insurance
At The Accidental Product Manager blog, Dr. Jim Anderson views discovery-driven growth to be “product flop insurance.” “Dr. McGrath proposes that we start to use what she calls discovery driven growth. This approach is basically… Read more »
Discovery-Driven Growth is Product Flop Insurance
At The Accidental Product Manager blog, Dr. Jim Anderson views discovery-driven growth to be “product flop insurance.” “Dr. McGrath proposes that we start to use what she calls discovery driven growth. This approach is basically… Read more »
Students Using Technology
Learning and Technology Specialist Erin Murphy at her Wharton School blog: “Once again, I found the ‘quizzing for context’ aspect of the Entrepreneruial Mindset by Ian MacMillan and Rita Gunther-McGrath to be an incredibly useful… Read more »
The Finance Compass cites Discovery-Driven Growth
Laresa McIntyre of The Finance Compass writes, “I’m currently reading Discovery-Driven Growth by Rita McGrath & Ian McMillan and came across this quote which I thought was so appropriate for today’s post: ‘Whenever you see… Read more »
The Finance Compass cites Discovery-Driven Growth
Laresa McIntyre of The Finance Compass writes, “I’m currently reading Discovery-Driven Growth by Rita McGrath & Ian McMillan and came across this quote which I thought was so appropriate for today’s post: ‘Whenever you see… Read more »
How to foster innovation in a large organization: Interview with Ron Pierantozzi
In this interview in Enterprise Leadership, Ron Pierantozzi, the former Chief Innovation Officer at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., explains how he and his team helped jump-start innovation led growth programs. Ron has been a… Read more »
A great deal for my subscribers on my Columbia Executive Education Course: Leading Strategic Growth
Those of you who follow my blog are obviously interested in driving growth and managing to be strategic in high-uncertainty environments. What you may not know is that myself, Ian MacMillan and a great group… Read more »
Questions to help you place projects on our Opportunity Portfolio
I had a most enjoyable day yesterday teaching in the Punch Sulzberger program, a joint venture between our Journalism and Business Schools at Columbia. The program seeks to help news journalists figure out what the… Read more »
How the Rokr helped the iPhone – Rita gets one right
Back in 2005, I posted the following blog: Is Steve Jobs playing the options game? In our book ‘The Entrepreneurial Mindset’ we argued that uncertain ventures could be treated as the real asset equivalent of… Read more »
Columbia Executive Education in a Video!
For those of you interested in learning more about what goes on at Columbia’s Executive Education programs they have just put togther a pretty neat video which features many of my esteemed colleagues (and a… Read more »