Monthly Archives: November 2010
The Role of Strategy
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There is a terrific quote in Creative Disruption by Simon Waldman about strategy. It is from Markus Reckling, the Managing Director of Corporate Development for Deutsche Post – here’s the quote plus Waldman’s interpretation: “I used to think that strategy was about avoiding unforeseen events; now I it’s about making sure you can deal with […]
Make Your Own Box
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The World is Getting More Complex – Or Is It?
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Be Prolific and Focused: Innovation Lessons from the Beatles
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Tim and I are now writing a lot on the importance of focus. Being successful with innovation is about managing the paradox of ‘disciplined creation’ and it helps to have some clear ideas about what you are trying to achieve and how you are going to create value. Part of this discipline is taking time […]
Common Knowledge
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The Innovation Matrix: People or Tools?
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Innovation and Ambidexterity
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Guest Post: by Ralph-Christian Ohr Tim wrote a post on “Staying Innovative While Growing”. I fully concur with his conclusion: “But it’s another innovation paradox – the small firms that might be most innovative often don’t have the market clout to get their ideas to diffuse. The firms that are big enough to get ideas […]
Don’t Underestimate Business Models that Don’t Look Like Yours
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I ran across a shocking quote today. It’s from an article in the July issue of The Monthly by Malcolm Knox called The Next Chapter – which is about the current state of play with e-books. Here is the quote: Until this year, the argument over e-books centred on whether they would ever overtake print. […]
You Are What You Do
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I often have people ask me how to build an innovative culture. The simple answer that is hard to execute is this: you build an innovative culture by innovating. Executing ideas is a critical part of innovation. If you think that innovation is only about having ideas, you won’t actually make anything. As fake Mark […]
Ten Reasons Why List Posts Are Bad
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The Innovation Matrix
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Note: this post has been updated in The Innovation Matrix Reloaded. Here’s a sketch that I came up with last week that helps explain how organisations get better at innovation: This is a bit of a distillation of observations over time. I thought of it because I think that a lot of people that are […]