Interesting approach: Every company innovates until it finds a cash cow. At that point only innovation that supports the cash cow is promoted. Further, any innovation that threatens or does not support the cash cow languishes or is actively killed. Eventually, most of the true innovation ceases as the innovators leave and start new companies [...]
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Buckminster Fuller
Die FTD sammelt hier einige Probleme, wunde Stellen und “Fehlfunktionen” von modernen Organisationen, etwas chaotisch aufbereitet und dem geneigten Leser vermutlich nicht unbekannt. Auch die Diagnose der Ursache “Führung” überzeugt nicht ganz … andererseits eben auch ein guter Blick in die komplexe Realität in vielen Unternehmen. In vielen Firmen wissen die Mitarbeiter oft nicht mehr, [...]
Via Rajesh Jain, an article with a nice human touch on how defining a firm’s capabilities, purpose, and niche (business model issues if you ask me) creates competitive advantage: Is it so different for the leader of a company to ask, “What is this company capable of?” than it is for an individual to wonder, [...]
via Innovation Zen Innovation consists of the technological, managerial, and social processes through which a new idea or concept is first reduced to practice in a culture. Discovery is the initial observation of a new phenomenon. Invention provides the first verification that a real problem can be solved in a particular way. Diffusion spreads proved [...]
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