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Why on earth is this fellow driving on the highway with a metal helmet blocking his view? Why is mythology important to the launch of the world’s least expensive car? What do consumers mean by “green” behavior? What do different family members want from...
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Inc. Magazine ran an interesting interview with Amar Bhide , a professor at Columbia University, which discusses the strength and resiliency of the U.S. economy from a perspective that made me think a bit differently about the subject. So, while the U...
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The September 22nd edition of Business Week had an interesting chart titled “ Innovation: The Biggest Bang for the Buck ”. The chart depicted the average revenue growth and stock price returns over a three year period for 25 enterprises that are known...
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Much of the time our gut reaction is that the best action that government can take to foster innovation is to stay out of the way. But, are there examples for governmental involvement? One case where the federal government’s involvement helped spur rapid...
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Sunday’s New York Times had an article by G. Pascal Zachary titled “Inside Nairobi, The Next Palo Alto” . The author points out that most technological innovation is created either in wealthy countries or in China and India. Yet, the rest of the world...
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The above titled article in today’s Wall Street Journal was prompted by Dow’s announcement that is purchasing Rohm & Hass for a 74% premium over yesterday’s closing price. This brings me back to my last blog post on business transformation. In it...
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A recent article in Forbes titled “Transform Your Company For Growth” by Scott D. Anthony and Kevin Bolen of Innosight does a great job in describing the potential as well as the challenges in creating sweeping changes to an enterprise. Most corporate...
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Over the last few years, functional MRI testing has given researchers the ability to see inside the brain in real time. Now, according to this month’s Scientific American Mind, researchers at the National Institutes of Health have used jazz pianists to...
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“The customer is the company. Threadless churns out dozens of new items a month – with no advertising, no professional designers, no sales force, and no retail distribution. And it has never produced a flop.” The above title and quote is from the current...
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So, where does business innovation come from? (I’m not proposing the question of “who” within an organization; rather the business enablers that are the likely sources of innovation.) One model that I found useful in my thinking about how firms create...
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I just returned from the World Innovation Forum in New York, where hundreds of business people and academics gathered to hear the experts in the field. MacArthur Genius Award winner Amory Lovins told us how to reduce reliance on oil through eliminating...
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The popular press often associates “innovation in business” with the process of new product ideation. And, the definition of innovation is regularly tied to the “home run” idea that launches a company to the forefront of an industry. These published tales...
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