To develop a discovery driven plan, you’ll proceed through five interlinked steps. These are: Start with a compelling outcome – meaning, know what would make the investment worthwhile Benchmark your ideas against market demand and… Read more »
Thought Sparks
Discovery Driven Planning: Different from conventional planning
Discovery Driven Planning was developed because years of research showed that companies using conventional planning methods to invest in new opportunities were systematically failing. When we researched the reasons, we found that conventional planning leads… Read more »
The case against case studies
In a terrific article which just came out in the February 4, 2008 edition of Business Week, author Geoff Gloeckler describes how Columbia Business School is getting away from conventional case studies, instead using ‘decision… Read more »
Business School Rankings: Hungry for Lists?
Anyone who enjoys watching the various business schools get sliced and diced by reviewers will get a kick out of the Financial Times report on business school rankings. Absolutely no shortage of lists in their… Read more »
The Despair of Entrepreneurship Professors are perennially popular but doomed business ideas
One of the most dreaded aspects of being an entrepreneurship professor are the hundreds of times that students will come up with the same – bad – business concept when tasked with building businesses of… Read more »
Tricks of the mind – and why proofreaders have such a difficult time
Sent to me by my brother, with observations from my mom that the power of the human mind to capture information is quite remarkable. It also helps us understand why good proofreading is so difficult. … Read more »
MarketBusters out in Russian!
We’re very pleased that MarketBusters has now been translated into many languages – including Japanese, Chinese (3 versions!), Thai, Portugese and others. The latest (at least I think) is a version in Russian, which arrived… Read more »
International Herald Tribune quotes Rita McGrath on Expat Housing
In a January 24, 2008 article entitled Expat housing, without the perks, Rita McGrath commented, “Normally you think of overseas jobs going to the top dogs but a lot of overseas jobs today are middle-dog… Read more »
When Yesterday’s Leaders Can’t Lead Tomorrow’s Business-some ideas from Doz & Kosonen
One of the enduring dilemmas of any successful business is that there will inevitably come a time when those who led the great success of the past will be faced with the erosion of what… Read more »
When Yesterday’s Leaders Can’t Lead Tomorrow’s Business-some ideas from Doz & Kosonen
One of the enduring dilemmas of any successful business is that there will inevitably come a time when those who led the great success of the past will be faced with the erosion of what… Read more »
Pfizer’s Office of the Future and the Great Irony of Information Work
It has long fascinated me that an entire class of information work that used to be done by trained professionals is now being muddled through by the rest of us. I’m referring of course to… Read more »
So-called rigorous but meaningless research – From Ian MacMillan
Co-author Ian MacMillan made the following observation, which I thought merited a post here: In his words: Our obsession with research that “rigorous”is driving out relevance. Here is a beauty: The author did an exquisitely… Read more »