{"id":993,"date":"2007-12-13T08:55:42","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T07:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/index.php\/archive\/big-company-innovation\/"},"modified":"2007-12-13T08:55:42","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T07:55:42","slug":"big-company-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/2007\/12\/big-company-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Big company innovation &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; well, &#8220;is it possible and why doesn&#8217;t it happen more often?&#8221; &#8211; that&#8217;s the topic of this podcast (<a href=\"http:\/\/media.libsyn.com\/media\/hbsp2\/HBR_IdeaCast_Episode_73-GE__Wal-Mart_Arent_Game_Changers.mp3\">mp3<\/a>) with Bill Taylor, co-author of &#8220;Mavericks at Work&#8221; and writer of the <a href=\"http:\/\/discussionleader.hbsp.com\/taylor\/\">&#8220;Game Changer&#8221; blog<\/a> at HBS. They are discussing his <a href=\"http:\/\/discussionleader.hbsp.com\/taylor\/2007\/11\/memo_to_andy_grove_general_ele.html\">post on cross-boundary disruption<\/a>, asking why big, successful companies, with vast technological and financial resources, don&#8217;t shake up the status quo more (in order to reap big profits). I side with Bill Taylor on this, Wal-Mart and GE aren&#8217;t exactly the poster-childs of disruptive (business model) innovation &#8211; at least they are no longer, old merits still hold &#8211; and being a big fat cat doesn&#8217;t qualify for quick agile moves.<\/p>\n<p>They are also touching on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.irvingwb.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/do-we-need-to-g.html\">Irving Wladawasky-Berger<\/a> and his thoughts on the necessity of near-death-experiences for real innovation (aka organizational brain cleansing),which I&#8217;ve mentioned here before (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/index.php\/archive\/notes-from-the-business-innovation-factory-bif-summit\/\">Notes from the Business Innovation Factory (BIF) Summit<\/a>&#8220;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; well, &#8220;is it possible and why doesn&#8217;t it happen more often?&#8221; &#8211; that&#8217;s the topic of this podcast (mp3) with Bill Taylor, co-author of &#8220;Mavericks at Work&#8221; and writer of the &#8220;Game Changer&#8221; blog at HBS. They are discussing his post on cross-boundary disruption, asking why big, successful companies, with vast technological and financial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,4,8],"tags":[15,71,30,26,335,564],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}