Two Innovation Lies and a Truth
There’s a popular ice breaker called Two Lies and a Truth — you state three semi-outlandish things about yourself and a group tries to guess which of the statements is true. The last time I played the...
View ArticleHow Big Companies Can Save Innovation
In my latest Harvard Business Review article, “The New Corporate Garage,” I argue that we’re transitioning into a new age where forward-thinking corporations that blend entrepreneurial behaviors with...
View ArticleBig Companies Can Unleash Innovation, Rather than Shackle It
In today’s world, start-ups aren’t the only ones who can innovate. As I discussed in my post How Big Companies Can Save Innovation, large companies are now better positioned to innovate than ever...
View ArticleThe Five Cs of Opportunity Identification
Simply asking “what job is the customer trying to get done?” can be a powerful way to enable innovation, because it forces you to go beyond superficial demographic markers that correlate with purchase...
View ArticleStrengthening Your Growth Factory
Just a few weeks ago Harvard Business Review and McKinsey & Co. opened the first leg of their 2012/13 M-Prize challenge: “Innovating Innovation.” The M-Prize’s overall goal is to “surface the...
View ArticleStart Building Your Growth Factory
One question I’ve gotten about the e-book that I wrote with my colleague David Duncan, Building a Growth Factory, is where to start. The book’s central theme is that companies can improve their ability...
View ArticleThe Asian Innovation Century, Again
Over the last three years I have consistently stated my belief that Asia was emerging as a global innovation powerhouse. It’s one of the primary reasons why I moved to Singapore in early 2010. In late...
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Coming to the Big Screen: How Steve Jobs Was Done in by the Innovator’s Dilemma
At this year’s Sundance film festival, I caught the premiere of JOBS, the widely anticipated Steve Jobs biopic. Aside from the fact that Ashton Kutcher strikes an uncanny resemblance to the Apple...
View ArticleWho Is Your Innovation Pig?
Take a look at your innovation pipeline. Odds are it is overflowing with rich ideas brimming with growth potential… on paper at least. Look deeper. Identify the projects that are the most different and...
View ArticleYour Innovation Problem Is Really a Leadership Problem
When Karl Ronn recently said, “Companies that think they have an innovation problem don’t have an innovation problem. They have a leadership problem,” I listened carefully. I featured Ronn, a former...
View ArticleSeeing Through the Fog of Innovation
The Fog of Innovation — that moment when you realize that the data you need to make a critical decision about an innovative idea just aren’t clear. Unfortunately, the data rarely are. For most large...
View ArticleTransforming a Company Is Daunting, But You Can Prepare for It
There’s no harder job for a corporate leader than transformation. One key to success is recognizing that transforming a business involves three activities: Transforming the core business to maximize...
View ArticleWhat a Good Moonshot Is Really For
More than 50 years ago, U.S. President John F. Kennedy captured the world’s imagination when he said, “This nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man...
View ArticleFive Ways to Innovate Faster
One of the most common complaints senior executives have about disruptive innovation is its seemingly snail-like pace. How is it, they wonder, that it takes us forever to pursue ideas that promise to...
View ArticleStrengthening Your Growth Factory
Just a few weeks ago Harvard Business Review and McKinsey & Co. opened the first leg of their 2012/13 M-Prize challenge: “Innovating Innovation.” The M-Prize’s overall goal is to “surface the...
View ArticleStart Building Your Growth Factory
One question I’ve gotten about the e-book that I wrote with my colleague David Duncan, Building a Growth Factory, is where to start. The book’s central theme is that companies can improve their ability...
View ArticleThe Asian Innovation Century, Again
Over the last three years I have consistently stated my belief that Asia was emerging as a global innovation powerhouse. It’s one of the primary reasons why I moved to Singapore in early 2010. In late...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Coming to the Big Screen: How Steve Jobs Was Done in by the Innovator’s Dilemma
At this year’s Sundance film festival, I caught the premiere of JOBS, the widely anticipated Steve Jobs biopic. Aside from the fact that Ashton Kutcher strikes an uncanny resemblance to the Apple...
View ArticleWho Is Your Innovation Pig?
Take a look at your innovation pipeline. Odds are it is overflowing with rich ideas brimming with growth potential… on paper at least. Look deeper. Identify the projects that are the most different and...
View ArticleYour Innovation Problem Is Really a Leadership Problem
When Karl Ronn recently said, “Companies that think they have an innovation problem don’t have an innovation problem. They have a leadership problem,” I listened carefully. I featured Ronn, a former...
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