Monthly Archives: November 2011
Most people understand what the S-curve is in terms of technology but less so on what it means in terms of organizational design and strategic innovation. If you are not the number one or number two market leader, then you should consider deliberately creating an industry breakpoint to upset the market leaders. Continue reading
It has been just three months since we launched Innovation Excellence, and thanks to your great support, we already have cracked the Top 80,000 web sites on Amazon’s Alexa web site rankings – putting us in the Top 0.26% of the millions of web sites out there. Continue reading
At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish a weekly Top 10 as part of our Innovation Excellence Weekly email. Did your favorite make the cut? Continue reading
Technology and innovation enable greater customer engagement through open-ended customizations, apps, add-on, and social features. John Hagel, author of The Power of Pull, highlighted what he saw as a distinction between story vs. narrative. Continue reading
Most organizations focus their energies on ideas, suggestions, and opinions. But for innovation to be efficient and focused, you need to ask better questions. What do you do when you don’t even know what questions to ask? Run a challenge to find challenges. Continue reading
