Yearly Archives: 2012
Three Signs of Business Model Innovation Opportunities
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How can you tell when there is an opportunity for business model innovation? Recent events in higher education might give us a good indication. There are a few issues in university education these days. The main one is that education is information based, and over the past 20 years we have seen nearly every single […]
Innovation Mistake: Thinking Tools Will Fix Your Problem
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I had lunch a while back with two executives from an organisation that the Business School does a fair bit work with. They wanted to improve innovation and that’s what triggered our meeting. We talked for a couple of hours about what was happening in their organisation. We talked about innovation as a process, the […]
Tools Should Be Invisible
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What is the most common mistake that I see when people try to implement management tools or frameworks? By far the most common is mistaking using the tool for getting the outcome you are looking for. I have been doing some consulting work recently where we are using the Business Model Canvas to develop a […]
Lessons From Kodak’s S-Curve Problems
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With Kodak in big trouble this week, a lot of people have been reflecting on what went wrong. While many are using this an opportunity to talk about bad management, or missing the digital photography trend, I think there’s more to the Kodak story than this. Kodak’s problems illustrate two very important innovation problems. The […]
How Apple Disrupts Markets and then Goes on to Dominate
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By Greg Satell (mostly) and Tim Kastelle Who wouldn’t like to be Apple? They make great products, consumers love them, competitors fear them and they make a ton of money.Yet for all that’s been written about Apple, nobody’s been able to emulate them. What’s more, little more than a decade ago, they were on the […]
Three Mistakes We Make With Models
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Three Things You Can Do With a Business Model
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Yesterday I looked at Eight Models of Business Models and Why They’re Important. However, in writing about how different people conceive of business models, I didn’t have enough space to address the really critical issue with them: What can you actually do with a business model? Once you’ve defined your business model, here are three […]
Eight Models of Business Models, & Why They’re Important
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The term Business Model is one that gets thrown around a lot these days. Even though it might sound like a buzzword to you, it’s important to understand what a business model is, and how they are useful. One of the confusing things about the business model concept is that there are a wide variety […]
There’s No Such Thing as Information Overload
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The size of your inbox or your RSS feed or your twitter stream might all argue otherwise, but there’s no such thing as information overload. Or, at least, if there is, it’s not new. Check this out: As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can […]
Innovation Betterness
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Why does your firm exist? To maximize shareholder value? No – that’s the dumbest idea in the world. To reduce transaction costs? No – that’s another economic model that doesn’t have much grounding in reality. In fact, if you ask this of most firms, they don’t have a very good answer. There have been a […]
Do Posts Asking if Something Kills Innovation Kill Innovation?
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One really good way to get traffic to your blog is to take a shot at a broad class of people, and do it with a catchy title. The latest version comes from FastCoDesign, which published the post “Do Innovation Consultants Kill Innovation?” Gregg Fraley and Jeffrey Phillips wrote quick responses, both affirming the negative. […]