{"id":343,"date":"2011-05-16T19:25:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T11:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=343"},"modified":"2011-05-16T19:25:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T11:25:41","slug":"what-goliath-can-teach-david-about-innovation-businessweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"Learning from innovation at large companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nice short, and insightful read about what you can learn about innovation from large organisations.\u00a0 The key takeaway is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Proven methods for inventing new products already exist. So why would you want to waste time, money, and other resources &#8220;discovering&#8221; processes that are already known and working well? Reinventing the wheel is never a good idea.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Successful companies and enlightened professors understand that there are extremely effective innovation processes. Unfortunately, entrepreneurs often hate process because they believe in the fantasy of the big idea.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/managing\/content\/may2011\/ca2011059_404938.htm\">What Goliath Can Teach David About Innovation &#8211; BusinessWeek<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice short, and insightful read about what you can learn about innovation from large organisations.\u00a0 The key takeaway is this: Proven methods for inventing new products already exist. So why would you want to waste time, money, and other resources &#8220;discovering&#8221; processes that are already known and working well? Reinventing the wheel is never a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation-processes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}