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December 22, 2010

BBQ Parties for guys?  Release your inner Avon!

Among the sites I enjoy visiting is Springwise, a web site dedicated to spotting interesting new ideas from all around the world.  This week they discovered a doozy – Barbecue parties targeted at men, at… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation

December 3, 2010

New Podcast about Business Models

In this podcast, I discuss issues regarding business models, with examples ranging from firms such as Kodak, CEMEX and Bose.  Have a listen!  Feedback always welcome. 

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Innovation, News Archives

October 6, 2010

The Bose VideoWave knocks my socks off!

I was recently privileged to have a demonstration of the Bose Video Wave System and was completely bowled over.  We have been struggling for years and spent a lot more money than I care to even… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation

September 1, 2010

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 »

Filed Under: Discovery Driven Planning, Innovation, Profitable Organic Growth

August 13, 2010

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 »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Innovation, Profitable Organic Growth

August 3, 2010

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 »

Filed Under: Discovery Driven Planning, Innovation, Profitable Organic Growth

July 31, 2010

Brilliant reflections on skunkworks

Ah, skunkworks.  Those small, agile units beloved of large organizations looking for the Next New Idea.  I've written about them in the past – and outlined some of the pitfalls of setting them up and… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Strategy Execution

July 30, 2010

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 »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Innovation, Profitable Organic Growth

July 24, 2010

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 »

Filed Under: Discovery Driven Planning, Growth Options / Real Options, Innovation, Opportunities

July 24, 2010

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 »

Filed Under: Innovation, Opportunities, Profitable Organic Growth

July 15, 2010

While we’re on the subject of wrong ends of competitive waves…

It must be my week for seeing bad news in many places.  I just love reading Scott Anthony's blog over at the HBR web site, where I also am a regular blogger.  Scott is part… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Innovation, Strategy Execution

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

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