Visitors to our site might have an interest in the work of the ILO Institute. Here’s the news about them: The ILO Institute brings together senior executives from Fortune 500’s, for dialogue with Nobel Prize… Read more »
Thought Sparks
Discovering New Points of Differentiation featured at Small Business Blog
Melody Campbell, Small Business Guru, cites the McGrath/MacMillan Harvard Business Review article Discovering New Points of Differentiation in her posting Consumption Chain: “MacMillan and McGrath list a set of questions to ask about your business:… Read more »
Rita McGrath cited at The Manufacturer.com
In the November issue in an article entitled Before you measure quality, define it, Rita McGrath is cited as follows: …[McGrath] is the co-author of MarketBusters: 40 Strategic Moves that Drive Exceptional Business Growth, and… Read more »
Rita McGrath published in MIT Sloan Review Fall 2006
Extracting Value from Corporate Venturing written by Rita McGrath and her colleagues, Professors Thomas Keil and Taina Tukiainen of Finland, appears in the Fall 2006 MIT Sloan Review. To read the article, click here.
Comment on Virtual Operations
From our good friend in Korea, Hyokon Zhang (we’ve temporarily disabled comments due to too much junk and spam – but if you email me comments I’ll happily post them – Rita) I absolutely agree…. Read more »
Women owned businesses
I thought this update on the status of female entrepreneurship was very interesting: Women-owned Firms Increase Nearly 20 Percent Women-owned firms increased nearly 20 percent over the latest period studied, according to a report released… Read more »
Preparing for Startup
Rita was recently asked how people can best prepare themselves for an entrepreneurial career later on in life. Here are her suggestions: There are three things that you can do to position yourself to start… Read more »
Advertising Enrager
Is anyone paying attention over at XM Radio? The so-called ‘advertising free’ medium, for which I pay a hefty regular charge has now started inserting the most stupid, insulting ads into their regular programming. After… Read more »
The unexpected benefits of failure
Business Week just featured a cover story on how learning from failure can ultimately lead to success. Those who know us know that we’ve been on that theme for many years. The article is worth… Read more »
Wrong tools for the job of innovation
A mistake I see companies making all the time is to try to do new things with the tools that they are comfortable with from their existing businesses. Things like NPV, stage/gate planning, Six Sigma,… Read more »
New era for philanthropy
The transcript of an interview with Mac regarding the Buffet donation of $30 billion to Gates Foundation Knowledge@Wharton: I’d like to start by asking you the same question that Bill Gates himself raised during an… Read more »
The power of backwards
Have just read a great story about Gamal Aziz of the MGM Grand, who has adopted a set of principles that are very like the ones we recommend in “Discovery Diven Planning.” The idea: Pick… Read more »