Over at the HBR blog, there is a terrific article entitled "Why Most New Product Launches Fail" which offers a fascinating perspective on the predictable, and sometimes avoidable, ills that can befall something new. Among… Read more »
Innovation Flops
Fantastic story about learning from failure at Best Buy
My friends over at Strategy + Innovation published a remarkable – and very honest – story from Brad Anderson, the former CEO of Best Buy. In the article, he describes the misbegotten acquisition by Best… Read more »
When life hands you lemons…AOL Style
What can you say about a 25-year-old web portal that has lost its grip on the public imagination? I refer of course to AOL, which for many of us was our first introduction to the… Read more »
20 Often-Fatal Assumptions
I am often asked by corporations to give some illustrations of assumptions that have caused more trouble than they had any right to in the development of new business plans. Here, for your edification and… Read more »
The London Olympics – One for the “flops file?”
One of my relatives, a UK-based small business owner, has argued for some time that the London Olympics would come to represent a ballooning cost burden for taxpayers and the reality of just what it… Read more »
One from the flops file - Mattel’s all but forgotten “Flavas”
As part of my work on understanding how companies compete in dynamic markets, I run across a fair number of flops. Some are well intentioned, and others are just poorly thought through. I was reminded… Read more »
One from the flops file – Mattel’s all but forgotten “Flavas”
As part of my work on understanding how companies compete in dynamic markets, I run across a fair number of flops. Some are well intentioned, and others are just poorly thought through. I was reminded… 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 »
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 »