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December 14, 2016

Forum for Dynamic Innovation at Columbia Event January 10

The last few years have seen a resurgence of what Steve Blank and other startups folks call ‘innovation theater‘.  On January 10, I’ll be chatting with Steve and transformative CEO of HarperCollins, Brian Murray, about what… Read more »

Filed Under: Business School, Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Event Announcements, Innovation, Profitable Organic Growth

October 29, 2016

Growth insights in a 45 minute Facebook live session!

No Powerpoints, no notes, just the team at Harvard Business Review, terrific and astute questions from viewers and a white board.  Check out this free Facebook Live session that has already garnered over 132,000 views. In more news –… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Discovery Driven Planning, Event Announcements, Executive Education, Innovation, Profitable Organic Growth

October 1, 2016

Preparing for the 8th Annual Drucker Forum

A few years ago, I started attending the Global Peter Drucker Forum, which has become a real who’s who of management conferences.  It takes place each November in Vienna and features luminaries and thought leaders… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Insights and ideas

January 24, 2016

What a startup can learn about customer needs from a medieval practice

In a recent article over at Fortune, I explore what Transferwise, a fast-growing new startup has rediscovered:  an enduring customer need that is currently featuring in the migrant crisis, Hawala.  The practice of Hawala originated centuries… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Case Studies and Applications, Innovation, Thought Sparks

October 28, 2015

Now in development: Mastering Corporate Entrepreneurship On-Line

What if you could take teams of people or individual contributors with an innovation mandate and have them go through a state of the art, hands-on and very applied journey through the essence of innovation… Read more »

Filed Under: Business School, Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Executive Education, Profitable Organic Growth, Uncategorized

April 29, 2015

Corporate entrepreneurship’s latest incarnation-the virtual startup

In this insightful blog post, Steve Sokol runs through the pluses and minuses of being part of a startup within a large corporation, what he calls a “virtual startup.”  The pluses are many – a… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Thought Sparks, Transient Advantage

March 16, 2015

Workers of the World…upsides and downsides of the on-demand workforce

In an article that appeared the other day on CNBC, reporter Cadie Thompson mulls over the effects of all these on-demand companies that make their money by connecting people with tasks to be done or… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Careers, Thought Sparks

February 6, 2015

Why the failure of Google Glass Might be a Boon to Google

It’s official. The nerdy glasses with augmented reality and all kinds of image capturing technologies have been pulled from the market. Already, the pundits are dissecting what went wrong. It is indeed a juicy story,… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Innovation Flops, Opportunities

November 25, 2012

Entrepreneurs – be parsimonious!

I was recently asked by a reporter to comment on the things that entrepreneurs need to purchase to start up a business.  Actually, I suggested, entrepreneurs shouldn’t purchase anything – the goal should be to… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship

February 16, 2012

Lightsquared and dirty rotten cheaters!

At Columbia's School of Engineering, I was very pleased to attend the Armstrong lecture given by Dr. Irwin Mark Jacobs.  He gave a fascinating talk about Qualcomm's founding, how it emerged from a previous company called… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, News Archives

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

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