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June 19, 2014

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 »

Filed Under: Discovery Driven Planning, Innovation, Profitable Organic Growth, Transient Advantage, Uncategorized

April 28, 2014

Continuous reconfiguration – commended paper by Emerald Insight

Emerald Insight commended the research behind a recent paper, Continuous Reconfiguration in the Transient Advantage Economy.  In a nutshell, what I found was that firms that were capable of delivering consistent performance over a relatively… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Innovation, Strategy Execution

March 26, 2013

An interview with Rita by Thinkers50’s Des Dearlove

A while back, I was in London and took some time to catch up with the folks behind the Thinkers50 management awards.  We did a wide-ranging video in which we talk about the nature of competition… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Strategy, Innovation

April 3, 2012

Ron Adner’s response to my “Better Place” question

As promised, I asked Ron what he thought about A Better Place, a company that I'm very struck with that has the potential to transform our relationship with energy.  Turns out he'd given them a… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation, Opportunities, Strategy Execution

March 28, 2012

Ron Adner’s great new book “The Wide Lens” highlights two important risks for innovation

My good friend (and sometime intellectual sparring partner), Ron Adner, has just released a new book, the Wide Lens, which highlights a major problem for companies seeking to innovate:  The essence is that they focus too… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation

February 22, 2012

Scott Anthony’s “Little Black Book” is a must-read for corporate innovators

I am diving with great delight into my good friend Scott Anthony's latest book, The Little Black Book of Innovation.  It's a great book which distills a huge amount of what we know works into… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation

February 21, 2012

Square Enix and Business Model Disruption – Event tonight at Columbia!

This evening, I will be a discussant at an event sponsored by the Columbia Center on Japanese Economy and Business.  Entitled Video Games and the Shaping of Industrial Transformation, the event will feature a keynote… Read more »

Filed Under: Event Announcements, Innovation, Opportunities

June 10, 2011

Tata Awards for Intelligent Failure

This blog post offers a nice description of Tata's awards for intelligent failure.  Under the rubric "Dare To Try" the company encourages people to be willing to take intelligent risks. It's one of many company practices… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation, Innovation Flops

May 9, 2011

Strategic Innovation Does Not Equal Dollars Spent

My colleague Gray Hammond sent along this interesting coverage of innovative companies, and I thought it might be of interest to my readers as well. Booz & Company’s latest annual study of global innovation, The… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation

May 4, 2011

An Internet Kissing Machine? Oh brother, what’s next. Wait, Maybe I Don’t Want to Know…

Believe it or not, reports have surfaced that a group of Japanese researchers are hard at work on an Internet Kissing Machine.  Yes, apparently, two people equipped with the devices can exchange more than just… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation

May 4, 2011

An Internet Kissing Machine? Oh brother, what’s next. Wait, Maybe I Don’t Want to Know…

Believe it or not, reports have surfaced that a group of Japanese researchers are hard at work on an Internet Kissing Machine.  Yes, apparently, two people equipped with the devices can exchange more than just… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation

May 2, 2011

Say It Ain’t So: The Shortening Half Life of the Business School Case Study

We in business school just love to use examples.  It’s examples, stories and personal insights that make what we teach accessible, inspiring and sometimes game-changing.  Along the way, many of these great stories get written… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation, News Archives

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