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Innovation Flops

April 15, 2011

New Product Flops - Dear to My Heart, as always

Over at the HBR blog, there is a terrific article entitled "Why Most New Product Launches Fail" which offers a fascinating perspective on the predictable, and sometimes avoidable, ills that can befall something new.  Among… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation, Innovation Flops

January 31, 2011

Fantastic story about learning from failure at Best Buy

My friends over at Strategy + Innovation published a remarkable – and very honest – story from Brad Anderson, the former CEO of Best Buy.  In the article, he describes the misbegotten acquisition by Best… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation, Innovation Flops, Strategy Execution

December 21, 2010

When life hands you lemons…AOL Style

What can you say about a 25-year-old web portal that has lost its grip on the public imagination?  I refer of course to AOL, which for many of us was our first introduction to the… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Innovation Flops, News Archives

July 12, 2010

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 »

Filed Under: Discovery Driven Planning, Innovation, Innovation Flops

February 8, 2010

The London Olympics – One for the “flops file?”

One of my relatives, a UK-based small business owner, has argued for some time that the London Olympics would come to represent a ballooning cost burden for taxpayers and the reality of just what it… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation Flops

November 18, 2009

One from the flops file - Mattel’s all but forgotten “Flavas”

As part of my work on understanding how companies compete in dynamic markets, I run across a fair number of flops. Some are well intentioned, and others are just poorly thought through. I was reminded… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation, Innovation Flops

November 18, 2009

One from the flops file – Mattel’s all but forgotten “Flavas”

As part of my work on understanding how companies compete in dynamic markets, I run across a fair number of flops. Some are well intentioned, and others are just poorly thought through. I was reminded… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation, Innovation Flops

October 21, 2009

Why smart projects so often go wrong - SAP and Business ByDesign

In class, I’ve been using German software giant SAP’s foray into Software as a Service as a ‘living case’ example of a company venturing into highly unknown territory.  Without knowing more than what is available… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation Flops

October 21, 2009

Why smart projects so often go wrong – SAP and Business ByDesign

In class, I’ve been using German software giant SAP’s foray into Software as a Service as a ‘living case’ example of a company venturing into highly unknown territory.  Without knowing more than what is available… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation Flops

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