Seeing 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 ArticleThe Get-Big-Quick Fallacy
Is it better for a start-up to purse profitability initially, or go for growth? Advocates of that second, get-big-fast approach inevitably point to companies like Tumblr (the company founded by a high...
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...
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Hollywood’s Imploding Summer Movie Strategy
Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds star in R.I.P.D., one of the summer's big flops This summer’s movie season kicked off with a dramatic prediction from Steven Spielberg, who lambasted Hollywood for its...
View ArticleSet Your Innovation Teams on the Right Path
One of the most critical challenges facing growth-seeking executives in large companies is deciding what constraints they should be placing on their organizations’ innovation efforts. Unconstrained...
View ArticleHow Corporate Investors Can Improve Their Odds
When investing in new growth businesses, corporate leaders are commonly advised to behave more like venture capitalists. VCs, they’re told, take more of a long-term approach, have a greater degree of...
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How to Market Test a New Idea
“So,” the executive sponsor of the new growth effort said. “What do we do now?” It was the end of a meeting reviewing progress on a promising initiative to bring a new health service to apartment...
View ArticleWhen It Comes to Digital Innovation, Less Action, More Thought
A few years ago, we had an idea for a new business opportunity. One of our colleagues owned a restaurant and was complaining about the amount of money he lost because expensive bottles of liquor often...
View ArticleHow Singapore Became an Entrepreneurial Hub
“You are crazy.” That was the predominant sentiment I heard a little more than five years ago when I told U.S.-based venture capitalists about my plans to move my family out to Singapore to oversee...
View ArticleHow to Break Up with an Innovation Project
Breaking up isn’t easy — especially if you are a leader “breaking up with” an innovation project that one of your teams still believes in passionately. It is a critical part of the innovation journey...
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