Disruptive innovation

A recent edition of Fortune describes innovations in computer gaming that are likely to be as disruptive to incumbent players like Electronic Arts and Activision as the move toward cloud computing is to providers of shrink-wrapped software. While the incumbents have been engaged in the innovation equivalent of an arms race – ever more powerful […]

Disruption is no longer just coming from the low end.

A process called choice mapping helps you apply constraints that can uncover novel solutions to problems.

New models take hold as the degree loses value.

Our eyes are underrated innovation tools. It’s easy to get caught up in a whirlwind of activities and miss opportunities that are literally right in front of your face. Make a regular habit of just standing and watching. You may be surprised by what you see. Here’s how it worked for me recently. This Monday, […]

The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has announced that they’re going to stop suing people for pirating music on P2P networks. For people under 30 years old, this has been the cause of much rejoicing. For those over 30, it may come as a surprise that the record companies were suing random individuals for […]

CEO Peter Walsh faces a classic innovator's dilemma. His company, Crescordia, produces high-quality metal plates, pins, and screws that orthopedic surgeons...

Telemedicine may not sound like a dramatic innovation, but it is.

Venture capitalists' unique approach to investment and innovation has played a pivotal role in launching one-fifth of the largest U.S. public companies....

Faster and cheaper pathways to good first jobs are emerging.

Things are heating up in the former "Singa-bore."

It was early Wednesday afternoon. I was reviewing the slides I planned to use for a two-hour session with a company in the Philippines later that afternoon....

Here’s what to do instead.

Lessons from Bugatti, Starbucks, and Moderna.

Many Western multinationals expect to find most of their future growth in emerging economies. But they have frequently struggled to exploit the opportunity,...

Remember how after Chemical Bank launched the first Automated Teller Machine in the 1960s, waves of bank branches shut down? And remember when banks went online, how waves of local bank branches shut down? Oh wait. In both cases the new technology ended up augmenting, rather than replacing existing channels. This isn’t unusual. Despite bold […]

Why can’t we seem to build organizations that are as resilient, inventive, inspiring, and accountable as the people who work within them? That’s the driving question behind the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), a web-based open innovation project dedicated to mustering the daring and creativity of the broadest base of thinkers and practitioners to reinvent management […]

Last Friday, I was having a conversation with one of my colleagues over a delicious Indian meal in Mumbai. He was describing a novel tourism strategy he had recently read about. “These places brand themselves ‘eco-tourism’,” he said as he chowed down on his channa masala. “Then they can shove you in a basic room […]

The single most common competitive mistake investors, CEOs, and entrepreneurs alike make is this: striving to do slightly better what their fiercest rival already does incredibly well. The result is usually a muddled, incoherent mess of a strategy — one that fuels not disruptive, explosive differences between a firm and its rivals, but their very […]

Plus strategies for driving transformative growth in 2023.