Organization change is the key to innovation. So, no change, no innovation. Or is it no innovation, no change? Well, change …
In review: Golden parachutes reward risk or moral hazard?
September 2010 in review. A roundup of blogs from the previous month: Golden parachutes reward risk or moral hazard? — No …
The key to innovation may be better employee hygiene
Today’s drive for continual innovation, as taught or written or sought or crowd sourced, has a lot to do with early …
In review: Organization sabotage and the butterfly effect
July 2010 in review. A roundup of blogs from the previous month: Organization sabotage and the butterfly effect — As a …
Can you engineer regional innovation clusters?
Pronouncements of local, state, or federal tax incentives to draw investors and to build innovation clusters. The key is to see a difference between cluster and clutter.
The key for clusters to succeed is for clusters to cultivate of high, value-add industries and supply chains as well as a sustainable competitive AND comparative advantage to other regions.
Boston may not rate as a successful cluster.
Venture Capital and the descent into irrelevance
The bigger the risk, the bigger the reward. Elemental finance: you assume the amount of risk suitable for an expected payoff. …
How do you measure innovation: tax revenue
When we talk innovation, innovation is usually connected to a firm or a region. Interest with innovation at the regional level …
The maven or the laggard — Clive Thompson’s view
Those early market adopters, the techno-weenies that stood in line for Apple’s iPhone 4, they represent only about 13.5% of the …
Low risk, low return human resources
My 11-odd-years in business and talent management consulting, the other nine years in marketing, have shown a few disturbing trends that …
Innovation Boston and Budapest, or Dirty Water and the Blue Danube
13 years offers a great opportunity to revisit most relationships. At first blush, Boston and Budapest seem to have little to …
Googled again: cost of culture is innovation
What, really, is the cost of culture? Is culture tangible to business bottom line or is culture an intangible behavioral science …
Innovation, the technical risk to IQ
I see and read so much about offers to teach or facilitate innovation, but what is innovation? Innovation has less to …
What Businesses Can Learn About Innovation … a comment about the numbers
“Lies, damned lies, and statistics”reminds us numbers don’t lie, but people do. Business can learn innovation from customer perception.
The most difficult industry to work in
One industry is not more complex than another. It is not the industry that demands an organization norm. Organizations are made and conceived as products of human interaction and social construction rather than an expression of an underlying industry, natural order.
People form the organization, the accumulation of organizations make up an industry segment.
People drive an organization’s effectiveness, mood, and culture. Not process, not technology, but people.
Fast Start — How limits boost creativity
Fast Start conversation: Working under constraints seems to stifle creativity. Design under constraint can boost creativity and in this Wired piece, …