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Grabbing Lightning
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We are innovation enthusiasts. We’ve studied innovation in one form or another, as academics, for nearly two decades and worked with numerous companies beyond those we’ve studied to help them become more accomplished innovators. This blog discusses our observations.
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In Search of Growth Leaders
Back from vacation …refreshed and renewed. Catching up on old news. July 7’s WSJ’s section devoted to reprising articles from MIT’s Sloan Management Review. Two articles picque my interest. This post is about the first one: In Search of Growt...
Innovating Coffee in a weakening economy
With soaring fuel prices, the $4 cuppa is probably unattractive as ‘everyday coffee‘. Starbucks plans to close 600 stores laying off 12000 employees. Downsizing and cost-cutting are popular moves exercised by Top Management to control cos...
Innovating coffee
Recently Howard Schultz was brought back as CEO to revitalize foundering Starbucks. Schultz intends to use Ideas to change his company—to instill what he calls “a seeing culture.” In an effort to execute Schultz’s intentions, Starbuck...
Will Gates return?
We’ve often mentioned how important it is to have a key individual responsible for driving innovation in a corporation. Everyone is now wondering how much Microsoft’s focus and fortunes could change. The Economist, like multiple other pub...
Interview on the Krow Show
Paul McLoughlin hosted me on the Krow (that’s work spelt backwards!) Show on VoiceAmerica Business today. You may find some of our discussion on building an innovation competency interesting, and even more interesting is the cool Pilates segme...

