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Discovery Driven Planning
How do we get our middle managers back into a growth mindset?
It’s been five or more years since the Great recession walloped economies all over the world, with the result that for many companies it has been a time of doing not very much but cost-cutting,… Read more »
Rita’s talk picked up by the Times of Trenton on Discovery Driven Planning
The Times of Trenton has picked up some topics from my talk on discovery driven planning at the Princeton Chamber of Commerce. It was a fun and lively session and the Chamber folks ask… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning Makes an Impression on CFO’s
A few months ago, I had the pleasure to give the keynote speech at the annual CFO "Core Concerns" conference published by CFO Magazine. The topic – how can you invest in growth, while containing… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Uncertainty and risk in discovery driven planning
I was recently fortunate enough to be teaching in a very interesting program for strategy consultants at IBM. One of their senior leaders, an ex-BCG guy, pointed out to me that I really could use… Read more »
20 Often-Fatal Assumptions
I am often asked by corporations to give some illustrations of assumptions that have caused more trouble than they had any right to in the development of new business plans. Here, for your edification and… Read more »
Interesting “innochat” on Twitter regarding Discovery Driven Planning
A nice shout-out to Jose Briones for moderating an "innochat" on the subject of discovery diven planning. You can see the slides he used to introduce the subject at this link: Slideshare. I've… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning for CIO’s
In this blog Steve Miller notes that DDP can be a bridge between 'searching' activities and 'planning' activities and suggests how the idea could be imported to the world of IT.
IDEO’s Colin Raney on the ‘large market fallacy’
This week, I’m here with a fantastic group of participants in Columbia’s Leading Strategic Growth and Change program, which I direct. This morning’s presentation featured Colin Raney and Joe Gerber from design consultancy IDEO . … Read more »