http://ritamcgrath.com/news/ en anne@ritamcgrath.com Copyright 2010 2010-02-27T21:52:00-05:00 http://ritamcgrath.com/news/detail/market-driven-growth-vertical-integration/ http://ritamcgrath.com/news/detail/market-driven-growth-vertical-integration/#When:21:52:00Z Market Driven Growth blog cites Rita McGrath's post about Why Vertical Integration is Making a Comeback.]]> 2010-02-27T21:52:00-05:00 http://ritamcgrath.com/news/detail/micropayments-for-content/ http://ritamcgrath.com/news/detail/micropayments-for-content/#When:21:33:00Z blogs about and agrees with Rita McGrath's post on Why I Hate Micropayments at Harvard Online.]]> 2010-02-24T21:33:00-05:00 http://ritamcgrath.com/news/detail/old-people-non-geeks-the-ipads-unlikely-saviors/ http://ritamcgrath.com/news/detail/old-people-non-geeks-the-ipads-unlikely-saviors/#When:06:58:00Z Atlantic Wire writes: Even if nerds kvetch and refuse to buy an iPad, the device may still sell with some big demographics -- casual tech users, the disabled, the elderly and women. Columbia Business School professor Rita McGrath makes the case. "The iPad, she argues, "will be explosive less for tech-elites than for 'non users' -- people who might never have been able to take advantage of computers before." She gives a personal example: "An older member of my family was given a computer, took lessons, and worked on a few projects. She would love to be a proficient user -- to exchange news and photos with her family, and to be able to look up newspaper reports. You would think her computer has all the ingredients necessary to be a successful, world-opening device for someone who can't get out as much as she used to -- it's wired and wireless, with high speed Internet. So what's the problem? The mouse! The movements needed to manipulate a mouse have proven impossible for her to master." To read the entire article, click here.]]> 2010-02-09T06:58:00-05:00 http://ritamcgrath.com/news/detail/innovation-leaders-a-breed-different-from-corporate-managers/ http://ritamcgrath.com/news/detail/innovation-leaders-a-breed-different-from-corporate-managers/#When:06:44:00Z click here.]]> 2010-02-03T06:44:00-05:00 http://ritamcgrath.com/news/detail/are-the-dynamics-of-innovation-changing/ http://ritamcgrath.com/news/detail/are-the-dynamics-of-innovation-changing/#When:06:34:00Z Extracting Value from Corporate Venturing authored by Rita Gunther McGrath, Thomas Keil and Taina Tukiainen: "Executives wax and wane in their enthusiasm for launching new ventures outside an organization's core business. In their more enthusiastic moments, leaders often see corporate venturing initiatives as sources of organic growth and vitally important engines of renewal. However, in their more disenchanted periods executives may see new ventures as high-risk, foolhardy distractions from effectively running the core business. What's more, such pessimism isn't wrong. Corporate ventures are risky and they usually do not produce hoped-for results." To read the entire blog, click here.
]]> 2010-02-02T06:34:00-05:00 http://ritamcgrath.com/news/detail/discovery-driven-growth-is-product-flop-insurance/ http://ritamcgrath.com/news/detail/discovery-driven-growth-is-product-flop-insurance/#When:22:52:00Z discovery-driven growth to be "product flop insurance."

"Dr. McGrath proposes that we start to use what she calls discovery driven growth. This approach is basically a plan for learning more as the launch process moves forward. The part that I like about this way of doing things is that it doesn't require the product manager to have a lot of analytical information at the start of the launch process. In my opinion that's a good idea simply because there generally isn't a lot of information available!"

To read the entire post, click here.]]> 2010-02-01T22:52:00-05:00 http://ritamcgrath.com/news/detail/students-using-technology/ http://ritamcgrath.com/news/detail/students-using-technology/#When:06:24:00Z Entrepreneruial Mindset by Ian MacMillan and Rita Gunther-McGrath to be an incredibly useful exercise for reducing the amount of uncertainty in a venture. The venture I have undertaken isn't necessarily a business venture, but more of a venture into the world of Student (Technology) Experience. I tried to use some of the questions posited in Entrepreneurial Mindset to try to understand the experience of a student at a university (particularly a business university). Here are some of the questions I was asking myself..."]]> 2010-02-01T06:24:00-05:00 http://ritamcgrath.com/news/detail/the-finance-compass-cites-discovery-driven-growth/ http://ritamcgrath.com/news/detail/the-finance-compass-cites-discovery-driven-growth/#When:23:07:00Z Discovery-Driven Growth by Rita McGrath & Ian McMillan and came across this quote which I thought was so appropriate for today's post: 'Whenever you see someone doing something really stupid in business, there's a good chance that he thinks he's being rewarded for it.' We all know this scenario and it doesn't usually turn out well for businesses. We want people to go left but they go right. And sometimes it's because we set the cheese at the end of the maze on the right, not the left. Our fault. How do we fix the problem? We need to look at the way our pay and incentive programs are set so we encourage the behavior necessary to make the business successful." To read the entire post, click here.]]> 2010-01-31T23:07:00-05:00 http://ritamcgrath.com/news/detail/rita-mcgraths-blog-named-one-of-the-best-by-online-colleges-and-universitie/ http://ritamcgrath.com/news/detail/rita-mcgraths-blog-named-one-of-the-best-by-online-colleges-and-universitie/#When:22:38:00Z click here.]]> 2010-01-14T22:38:00-05:00 http://ritamcgrath.com/news/detail/mba-depot-links-to-rita-mcgrath-and-ian-macmillans-work/ http://ritamcgrath.com/news/detail/mba-depot-links-to-rita-mcgrath-and-ian-macmillans-work/#When:01:06:00Z here to read the entire post.]]> 2010-01-07T01:06:00-05:00