There is a huge performance prize right under the noses of most organizations. It can start anywhere between 60 percent and 100 percent, before a “cultural multiplier effect” kicks in. The reason the improvements go untapped is because of the performance gap between strategy and implementation, according to Michael C. Mankins and Richard Steele in [...]
05.13.12 | Management, Strategy | John P. Muldoon
This is Part II of the report on Thursday’s innochat where a group of innovation experts and practitioners tackle some of the innovation challenges facing organizations. Part I is here. Turning to her third question, moderator Gwen Ishmael (@Gwen_Ishmael) asked how the different types of innovation being discussed — incremental, breakthrough and transformational — impact [...]
04.26.12 | Innovation, Management, Strategy | John P. Muldoon
Companies can face different challenges in their markets and with their customers depending on how they position themselves strategically on the innovation spectrum.
04.26.12 | Innovation, Organisation, Strategy | John P. Muldoon
Often frowned upon and always expensive, patents are not exactly top of an overstretched startup’s to-do list. But they are worth a second look, according to Prof. Steve Nichols of the University of Texas at Austin. Director of UT’s Chair of Free Enterprise, Nichols was speaking last week at the 2012 TCD Innovation Award in [...]
04.19.12 | Entrepreneurship, Strategy | John P. Muldoon
A country or a region’s ability to exploit innovation is more important than its ability to create innovative break throughs, according to Nitin Nohria, Dean of the Barvard Business School.
04.17.12 | Innovation, Strategy | John P. Muldoon