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When innovating, seek out more, and more varied, ideas
I’ve been reading the book “Innovation Tournaments” by Christian Terwiesch and Karl Ulrich of the Wharton School. The book sets out a methodology (the “tournament” of the title) for companies to...
View ArticleThe two top skills of great innovators
The Harvard Business Review this month features a fascinating piece by Jeffrey Dyer of Brigham Young University, Hal Gregersen of Insead, and the omnipresent Clayton Christensen, entitled “The...
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The Best Business Books of 2009
In the wake of the worst US economic catastrophe since the Great Depression, everybody realized this: Making money is harder than we thought. So, this year, books on innovation had special resonance....
View ArticleTwo blogs you should read about the future of business
Two bloggers on Harvard Business Review’s website (http://hbr.org) in very different voices are helping to define the next era of business, post-crash. Umair Haque provokes and hyperbolizes, while...
View ArticleImpediments to adopting a culture of experimentation
Dan Ariely’s monthly column is one of my favorite changes in the Harvard Business Review redesign. In the April issue, he muses over “Why Businesses Don’t Experiment.” Naturally (perhaps I should say...
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Silicon Pasture report: Charlie Crystle’s Focus
Lancaster, PA-based entrepreneur Charlie Crystle recently released the initial beta for his product code-named Focus. It’s a product that has grown out of Charlie’s self-described “ADD” tendencies when...
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Common sense isn’t common
“It’s just common sense,” people say, as if this is a resource that we all possess in ample quantities. Yet if that’s the case, we don’t tap this resource very effectively. The very impressive...
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“Copycats”– a fresh look at how imitation contributes to innovation
“We are like dwarves standing on the shoulders of giants,” Bernard of Chartres. “Good artists borrow, great artists steal,” Picasso, or, more likely, TS Eliot. You’re “stepping all over Apple’s IP,”...
View ArticleStories of innovation success can mislead
I posted on this cool promo for the new Steven Johnson book (”Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation“) the other day, but now I wanted to reflect on one of the points Steven...
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A brief history of flash memory – and how Apple used it to change everything
Remember this? It used to be the killer app using flash memory. Here is the flash killer app, circa 2010: And Apple is the reason. When flash memory was used to move files between computers so you...
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