Archive for January, 2009
Thursday, January 29th, 2009
Corning is the new 3M of innovation
More from my very backdated pile of Fast Company magazines: Seventy percent of Corning’s revenue today comes from products that did not exist five years ago. Corning must have a very robust innovation process in place for making this happen. What’s the advantage of such a process? By bringing out new products constantly, and killing [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Innovation CULTURE,Innovation PROCESSES,Strategy by Roger Dennis
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Breaking groupthink helps decision making
From a recent McKinsey Quarterly comes this interesting tidbit: A recent survey by McKinsey asked about decision-making practices and compared them with decision outcomes. Decisions that were made after a company’s executives sought out contradictory evidence and opinion were more likely to turn out well. By getting away from the groupthink that pervades many decision [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Strategy by Roger Dennis
Friday, January 16th, 2009
The Future of Futurists
Over at Relevant History Alex Soojung-Kim Pang of the IFTF has one of the most interesting things I’ve read for a while about foresight and futures thinking. It’s a work in progress as he admits, but there were two paragraphs that immediately caught my attention: …This could have profound implications for futures. It would shift [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Futures Thinking by Roger Dennis
Thursday, January 15th, 2009
GE and “white spaces”
Over the holiday break I caught up on some very long overdue reading. Quite a bit of it in fact. One issue of FastCompany magazine had a fascinating article about GE and how the company uncovers new opportunities. It appears to be very much in the vein of the work that we do at Innovaro: [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Fringe scanning / peripheral vision,Futures Thinking,Strategy by Roger Dennis
Monday, January 12th, 2009
Disruption from the edges
Catching up on some long overdue reading, I came across this quote in a FastCompany article about Joss Whedon, creator of the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He makes reference to the fact the next next disruption to his industry is not going to be from within: “There’s someone out there who will figure [...]
