Rita McGrath posted to the Harvard Business Publishing site on this topic on August 20th: “In our book MarketBusters, my colleague Ian MacMillan and I encouraged companies to think about how adding an emotional appeal… Read more »
Thought Sparks
Making the Consumption Chain Smarter
Stephen L. Schwartz of Intermec Technologies and a attendee at a recent Columbia Executive Education Leading Strategic Initiatives class led by Rita McGrath wrote to her of an innovation implemented by its client Vail Resorts…. Read more »
Even law firms can use new business models - Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges
An article in Fast Company’s September issue features a Los Angeles law firm that is making big bucks with a business model that is foreign to traditional firms. For some years, I’ve worked with the… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning: Debunking dumb entrepreneurial ideas
Wired magazine runs a regular column by “Mr. Know-It-All” in which the great mysteries of our time—such as how to retrieve porn from a laptop you’ve loaned to a friends’ child and what the correct… Read more »
Apologies for hiatus
The summer certainly took a toll on blogging for me, although all in a good cause. My parents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary (isn’t that an accomplishment in this day and age!), and I took… Read more »
Strategy Innovation vs. Strategic Planning (Discovery Driven Planning)
Business Innovation blog posted “If you are intrigued by the potential of strategy innovation for your company, be aware that you will not get it from your current strategic planning process. You will have to… Read more »
The Beacon Blog: Insight for Entrepreneurs—“Discover” Effective Business Planning
The Beacon Blog: Insight for Entrepreneurs written by Dallon Christensen cited and recommends Entrepreneurial Mindset in his July 24, 2008 posting. “What is your first thought when you think of the words ‘business plan?’ Is… Read more »
Should Successful Companies Bother with Innovation?
Scott D. Anthony, president of Innosight, an innovation consulting and investing company with offices in Massachusetts, Singapore, and India poses that question at the Harvard Business Publishing blog and mentions Rita McGrath as one of… Read more »
Mapping the Consumption Chain
The http://www.unitedbit.com blog has posted a three-part series from a McGrath-MacMillan excerpt on Mapping the Consumption Chain. “Most profitable strategies are built on differentiation: offering customers something they value that competitors don’t have. A company… Read more »
Wall Street Journal cites McGrath article “For Further Reading”
In its July 7, 2008 article, In Search of Growth Leaders, the Wall Street Journal cites the 2006 article by Rita McGrath, Thomas Keil and Taina Tukiainen Extracting Value from Corporate Venturing, for further reading…. Read more »
Wall Street Journal cites McGrath article “For Further Reading”
In its July 7, 2008 article, In Search of Growth Leaders, the Wall Street Journal cites the 2006 article by Rita McGrath, Thomas Keil and Taina Tukiainen Extracting Value from Corporate Venturing, for further reading…. Read more »
Connecting HR with Competitive Advantage
Rita McGrath posted at the Harvard Business Publishing blog: A recent piece in the Wall Street Journal—“HR Departments Get New Star Power at Some Firms”—noted that some forward-thinking companies are dramatically increasing the weight, importance,… Read more »