Popular Posts

The Popular Posts list in the menu on the right shows the posts with the most pageviews over the past 30 days.

My posts at Harvard Business Review Blogs:

• Why Your Innovation Contest Won’t Work
• Hierarchy is Overrated
• Is Your Innovation Problem Really a Strategy Problem?

Most Popular Posts – All Time

• Eight Models of Business Models & Why They’re Important: a discussion of what business models are, and why you should evaluate yours. The follow-up post is Three Things You Can Do With a Business Model.
• Innovation Lessons from the Rise of Tesla Motors: an industry starting to move up the S-Curve.
• Don’t Set Goals, Make New Habits Instead: to innovate more, you need to change your actions – build habits that will help you do this.
• Procter & Gamble: Using Open Innovation to Become a World-Class Innovator: case study looking at how P&G used innovation to transform the business.
• Lessons from Kodak’s S-Curve Problems: even when you invent the future yourself, disruptive innovation can still put you out of business.
• The Innovation Matrix Reloaded, Again: this is being turned into a book with the awesome Nilofer Merchant, and it looks a lot different now.  But this is an early attempt at classifying different types of innovative firms in order to help develop more customised strategies.
• Evolutionary and Revolutionary Innovation: by Ralph-Christian Ohr – the first post where Ralph really starts to dig into the topic of managing ambidextrous innovation.
• Innovation Now and for the Future: tips on how to use the 3 Horizons framework to manage your innovation portfolio.
• We Don’t Care About Your Features (Create Value Instead): when people have great new ideas, they often become obsessed with their features.  This is a mistake.
• Innovation is the Process of Idea Management: the most common innovation mistake we encounter is the belief that innovation is just about ideas. It’s not – it’s about managing these ideas so that they become real.
• Here is Why You Need Business Model Innovation: because the world is changing.
• Four Key Issues in Innovation Management: co-authored by Tim and Ralph, looking at we think are four of the most important innovation ideas for managers to think about.
• A Brief Introduction to Uncertainty in Business: most people underestimate the amount of uncertainty that they face – here is a guide to thinking about it more effectively.

Some Posts that I Just Like

• Where Does Innovation Fit in Your Business Model? this is some of the core thinking behind the Innovation Matrix (Map) idea.
• Why You Need to Be Vulnerable to Innovate: it scared me to post this, so I guess I was living the advice from Brene Brown‘s book as I was riffing off it.
• How to Think About the Future: it’s uncertain, but we can influence it.
• Actually, People Love Change: what can we learn from the changes that people actively seek out?
• Five Forms of Filtering: I like to believe that this did well because of the content, not because it was a list post with alliteration.

Popular Posts on Networks

• Think “Network Structure” not “Networking”: Why networking is bad.
• The Economy is a Network: well, it is!
• How Personality Shapes Your Network: John discusses the impact that some personality characteristics have on your position within networks. The follow-up post is What Motivates Knowledge Brokers?
• Networks and the Information Glut: Starts with a great visualisation of the correspondence networks of 18th century scientists, then discusses the implications for modern day knowledge management.
• Innovation and the Value Network: Where you are in the value network has a big impact on how easy it is to get your ideas to spread – this gives some tips for managing this position. There is a follow-up post with a practical example too.
• 4 Rules for Managing Your Network: The slides + audio from the talk that Tim gave at the AusBiotech Queensland and Ernst & Young Breakfast Series in September.
• Chance Favours the Connected Mind: a discussion of Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson.
• Can Your Friends Make You More Innovative?: On the influence your relationships have on creativity and innovation.