Managers might not want competition in their industry to become more Schumpeterian, but they don’t have a choice. In “Dog Eat Dog” by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, where they hold that industries that buy a lot of technology are becoming as cutthroat as those that produce technology …
The KnowledgeForward blog notes this transcript on Microsofts innovation management practices (this is from a presentation Steve Ballmer gave at the Convergence 2007 conference in March). This talk also has some good thoughts that can be applied in regard to business model design and innovation – just think of the up-sides of being a fast […]
Notes to myself, part I, in HBS First Look of March 27: “From Manufacturing to Design: An Essay on the Work of Kim B. Clark” by Sylvain Lenfle and Carliss Y. Baldwin. Kim Clark occupies a unique place in management scholarship. As a member of the Technology and Operations Management unit of Harvard Business School, […]
Via Experiantia I learned about this interview with Eric von Hippel by Gartner research fellow Tom Austin: […] to discuss his new book: Democratizing Innovation. This seminal book – based on a broad base of academic research – explores how users have been driving the innovation process for centuries. It also discusses opportunities that organizations […]
… at the Web 2.0 Awards (announced May 9), this is a good overview of a multitude of web 2.0 offerings, see an account of what’s going on and what’s emerging here. Our team reviewed hundreds of sites in the Web 2.0 sphere to uncover the best in each of 41 categories. From there, we […]
… die ernsthafte Würdigung in der FAZ, die vielen Gründe warum Ingenieure und Technologen u.a. Gravity’s Rainbow so faszinierend finden – und natürlich die ehrenvolle Aufnahme in den Pop-Olymp:
Business Week has a nice article on the need for adaptive business design, i.e. business models, citing examples like Iridium, Friendster or the Segway. Yes, some innovations don’t take off as intended at first, but can be repurposed in creative new ways (sometimes even accidentally). Here, identifying new markets is one alternative, as Henry Chesbroughs […]
