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Profitable Organic Growth

August 24, 2010

An application of Discovery Driven Planning by one of Mac’s students

Mac teaches Discovery Driven Planning in his entrepreneurship classes at Wharton, and received the following story about how one of his students applied DDP: Mac, I took your MGMT 802 class earlier this year.  I'm… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Discovery Driven Planning, Profitable Organic Growth

August 18, 2010

Fascinating application of discovery driven planning to social ventures

My dear colleagues Jim Thompson and Ian MacMillan have just published a fascinating description of their work on social entrepreneurship, entitled "Making Social Ventures Work".  It's a neat usage of discovery driven planning in an… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Discovery Driven Planning, Profitable Organic Growth

August 13, 2010

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 »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Innovation, Profitable Organic Growth

August 3, 2010

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 »

Filed Under: Discovery Driven Planning, Innovation, Profitable Organic Growth

July 30, 2010

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 »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Innovation, Profitable Organic Growth

July 24, 2010

Idea generation is seldom the problem

So, you've decided that its time to get out from under that black cloud your business has been in for the last  two years and start thinking about growth again.  If you're a senior leader… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation, Opportunities, Profitable Organic Growth

June 14, 2010

Why a walled garden can out perform a free-for-all

I ran across this interesting post from Bob Cooper's blog over at the Kellogg site.  In it, he reprints some observations from pundits that calls into question the conventional wisdom that an open platform such… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation, Profitable Organic Growth

April 11, 2010

Different types of competitors and an age-old question “What Business Are You In?”

Just this morning, I ran across Margaret Hefernan's post over at BNET in which she reminds readers that it is really important to know what business they are really in. She cites the example of… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Profitable Organic Growth

April 11, 2010

Different types of competitors and an age-old question “What Business Are You In?”

Just this morning, I ran across Margaret Hefernan's post over at BNET in which she reminds readers that it is really important to know what business they are really in. She cites the example of… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Profitable Organic Growth

January 4, 2010

BareBones NPV calculator

Howdy! This post was from 2010 and we’ve updated it a bit.  Since you’re here, let us suggest that you also check out the tools that are available on the Valize.com web site! If you… Read more »

Filed Under: Profitable Organic Growth, Tools

November 5, 2009

Business Value of a Temporary Advantage – Video describing the BareBones NPV

My esteemed colleague, Mac, is featured describing the application of the “BareBones” NPV tool in this video. We’re working on uploading a new version of the software.

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Profitable Organic Growth

November 3, 2009

Event Alert – MacMillan talks about Discovery Driven Growth

Esteemed colleague and co-author MacMillan will be giving a talk in Philadelphia on Nov. 18.  Check out the details here..

Filed Under: Discovery Driven Planning, Profitable Organic Growth

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