How Will You Measure Your Life? – Harvard Business Review

by Clayton M. Christensen Don’t reserve your best business thinking for your career. Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Copyright © 2010 Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved. Harvard Business Publishing is an affiliate of Harvard Business School. Editor’s Note: When the members of [...]

Innovation and the small business

Why do businesses innovate, and what is the big deal about innovation anyway? I mean, isn’t it just a case of taking apart an invention and tweak it to make it more appealing and saleable? Sounds like a sure fire winner to me, and just the ticket for anyone out there sharp enough to see [...]

Corporate culture is what you make of it.

Much has been written about corporate culture, and much more will. There are studies, dissertations, discussions and many examples out there of good and bad corporate culture. Still, what is ‘good’ to some is ‘bad’ to others and vice-versa. Which leaves the rest of us in a pickle and we ask “is corporate culture subjective, [...]

Delivering on the customer promise

Racing heart and slightly sweaty palms as I approach the posting of my first blog. It is one thing to say what you mean at the spur of the moment to friends, and newly made acquaintances. The friends will give that rolled up eyes look that say “that’s just him going off again”. Newly made [...]

Re(I)nnovate™ Series – Part 3

This post is part of a 5 part series on Business Modelling, Collective Intelligence & Innovation. You can read Part 1 here; and Part 2 here. In Part 2 of this series on Business models, collective intelligence and its importance in innovation, we discussed the need to understand value chain contexts, and to possess the [...]

Re(I)nnovate™ Series – Part 2

This post is 5 part series on Business Modelling, Collective Intelligence & Innovation (read Part 1 of this series here.) So, what does Re(i)nnovate™ mean? What is its context in the world of business model innovation? I have been reading, debating, discussing, and advising on innovation for some time now. And in all these interactions, [...]