This week, I’m here with a fantastic group of participants in Columbia’s Leading Strategic Growth and Change program, which I direct. This morning’s presentation featured Colin Raney and Joe Gerber from design consultancy IDEO . … Read more »
Thought Sparks
Business Value of a Temporary Advantage – Video describing the BareBones NPV
My esteemed colleague, Mac, is featured describing the application of the “BareBones” NPV tool in this video. We’re working on uploading a new version of the software.
Event Alert – MacMillan talks about Discovery Driven Growth
Esteemed colleague and co-author MacMillan will be giving a talk in Philadelphia on Nov. 18. Check out the details here..
Business Education and many other links to very cool blogs
A colleague was kind enough to send me the link to a blog web site which itself has terrific links for people interested in business. In addition to the blogs I post on, such as… Read more »
Does business ignore Business Schools?
In his blog The Art of Management, Dr. David M. Atkinson, discusses the issues, his thoughts, and refers to Rita McGrath’s January 14th letter “The Upside to Business Schools,” written in response to a column… Read more »
“Learning From Corporate Flops”—Rita McGrath featured in Wall Street Journal
The Business Insight section of the Wall Street Journal features an interview of Rita McGrath by MIT Sloan Management Review’s editor Martha E. Mangelsdorf on Monday, October 26th. Entitled Learning from Corporate Flops the WSJ… Read more »
“Learning From Corporate Flops”—Rita McGrath featured in Wall Street Journal
The Business Insight section of the Wall Street Journal features an interview of Rita McGrath by MIT Sloan Management Review’s editor Martha E. Mangelsdorf on Monday, October 26th. Entitled Learning from Corporate Flops the WSJ… Read more »
How decisions made under uncertainty can cast a long shadow – Internet Pricing
The reality of having to make decisions under uncertainty is that quite often, you'll get things wrong. Unfortunately, sometimes those wrong things have very long and path-dependent consequences. I'm thinking in particular of two decisions… Read more »
How decisions made under uncertainty can cast a long shadow - Internet Pricing
The reality of having to make decisions under uncertainty is that quite often, you'll get things wrong. Unfortunately, sometimes those wrong things have very long and path-dependent consequences. I'm thinking in particular of two decisions… Read more »
Customer experience innovation – description of a talk that I sometimes give
Sad, but true: Most companies have potentially disastrous blind spots with regard to truly understanding their customers' experiences with their products and services. This session introduces a simple, intuitive tool – the customer consumption chain… Read more »
Customer experience innovation - description of a talk that I sometimes give
Sad, but true: Most companies have potentially disastrous blind spots with regard to truly understanding their customers' experiences with their products and services. This session introduces a simple, intuitive tool – the customer consumption chain… Read more »
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 »