Blog detail

Grabbing Lightning

Grabbing Lightning

http://www.grabbinglightning.com

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.

Grabbing Lightning's Neighborhood

subscribe Recent Posts

  • In Search of Growth Leaders

    Posted on Tuesday July 22nd, 2008 at 23:34

    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

    Posted on Thursday July 10th, 2008 at 20:49

    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

    Posted on Friday July 4th, 2008 at 20:03

    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?

    Posted on Tuesday July 1st, 2008 at 17:54

    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

    Posted on Wednesday March 26th, 2008 at 22:37

    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...

Comments & Reviews

There is no rating for this blog because there are no comments yet.

Post A Comment/Review

* Your IP is being logged.
* Your e-mail address is used only for verification purposes only and will not be sold, or shown publicly.
* No HTML tags allowed
* DO NOT use the Comments/Reviews to promote your own site.

Name: or Login
E-mail:
Rating:
Verify: Spam Protection: sum of 1 + 4
Comment:
  Remember Information