I’m just digging out after spending a week with some fantastic participants at our course Leading Strategic Growth and Change. We suffered a bit from the “ash” fallout as many potential participants couldn’t make it… Read more »
Thought Sparks
Reflecting on Built to Last
In an article published six years ago now, a Fast Company writer asks the question “were built to last companies built to last?”. Built to Last is, of course, a bible to many practicing executives… Read more »
Experiments—The Key To Innovation
Tim Kastelle quoted Rita McGrath in his April 8 post: Experiments: Key to Innovation quoting from her Harvard Business post Are you Squandering your Intelligent Failures?. She includes a list of conditions that can lead… Read more »
Experiments—The Key To Innovation
Tim Kastelle quoted Rita McGrath in his April 8 post: Experiments: Key to Innovation quoting from her Harvard Business post Are you Squandering your Intelligent Failures?. She includes a list of conditions that can lead… Read more »
Lab Work for your Business Model
At Columbia Business School Public Offering Professor Rita McGrath says experimentation must be an integral part of a company’s strategy in order to remain competitive in the future. “The level of uncertainty and speed of… Read more »
Different types of competitors and an age-old question “What Business Are You In?”
Just this morning, I ran across Margaret Hefernan's post over at BNET in which she reminds readers that it is really important to know what business they are really in. She cites the example of… Read more »
Different types of competitors and an age-old question “What Business Are You In?”
Just this morning, I ran across Margaret Hefernan's post over at BNET in which she reminds readers that it is really important to know what business they are really in. She cites the example of… Read more »
The top tech companies have money to burn
My colleague, Ian MacMillan, sent along a link to a fascinating chart. Basically, it says that if you are a leading technology company you have rather a lot of cash to spend, while everybody else… Read more »
At long last – a baggage charge that makes sense
Halleluja! That was my response on learning from today's New York Times that Spirit Airlines is going to start charging people to carry on bags that go into the overhead bins. I know this will… Read more »
At long last - a baggage charge that makes sense
Halleluja! That was my response on learning from today's New York Times that Spirit Airlines is going to start charging people to carry on bags that go into the overhead bins. I know this will… Read more »
Are You Squandering Your Intelligent Failures?
Rita McGrath’s Harvard Business Review post Are You Squandering your Intelligent Failures has been commented upon by Tim Kastelle and John Steen here.
The current state of “Skunkworks”
It’s a time-honored tradition in the corporate innovation literature – the idea of a hardy band of people who work in a way that is separate from the mother organization to bring into being a… Read more »