Entrepreneur’s story about Tightwad Bank in Tightwad, MO quotes Rita McGrath: using a different kind of name is a “strategy that’s used by many firms to add an empathic or emotional appeal to their products… Read more »
Thought Sparks
Discovery Driven Planning & Teaching in Non-Degree Executive Education Programs
I’m just here at the Strategic Management Society’s annual conference in Cologne. It’s a meeting which aspires to bring together academics, consultants and business-people for fruitful dialogue and exchanges, although in fairness the tilt does… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning: Why I like the term ‘business model’
I rather like the term business model because in my view it suggests a change to the way that we conceive of, create, and execute strategies. In highly uncertain, complex and fast-moving environments, strategies are… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning: Good new book on Innovation
It’s always a welcome moment when a new perspective on innovation is offered from the folks over at Clayton Christensen’s Innosight consulting firm. They’ve just recently published a new book, The Innovator’s Guide to Growth… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning: Not just for new businesses any more
The headlines are all around us – I just returned from a fascinating session in Seattle at the Microsoft Global Chief Information Officer summit to a pile of newspapers screaming “Washington Mutual Goes Under” and… Read more »
Business Insights Blog: Interview with Rita McGrath
Business Insights blog is publishing excerpts from an interview with Rita McGrath: “In order to avoid becoming complacent with your clients, you’ve got to keep your eyes open. Creating benchmarks in the market will help… Read more »
Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan cited in Forbes
The Forbes article excerpts From Strategy to Execution: Turning Accelerated Global Change into Opportunity by Clayton Christensen and cites Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan as follows: “Instead, companies should focus on progress-tracking metrics such as… Read more »
Business Week.com features Rita McGrath’s Harvard’s Dynamic Strategies blog post
Business Week has featured Rita McGrath’s August 27, 2008 post at Harvard Business entitled Cut Costs like Avon — Not Home Depot. The Business Week post is here.
Business Week.com features Rita McGrath’s Harvard’s Dynamic Strategies blog post
Business Week has featured Rita McGrath’s August 27, 2008 post at Harvard Business entitled Cut Costs like Avon — Not Home Depot. The Business Week post is here.
Real Options, the Living Dead, and how to play the possibility of failure in the financial markets
I’m a big fan of thinking of bets in highly uncertain environments in terms of options. With growth options, I usually advise thinking of new opportunities as options – in which you place a small… Read more »
Management Techniques actually work!
If you didn’t catch the article by Scott Thurm in today’s Wall Street Journal, you should check it out. He reports that researchers from Stanford University, the London School of Economics and the consulting firm… Read more »
Powerful use of symbolism by leaders of change
One of the most powerful levers for leaders to use in trying to create change is through symbolism. Symbols give meaning to activities that would otherwise lack emotion or conviction. I was thinking about this… Read more »