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 »
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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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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.
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..