Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Here’s your guide to producing and managing innovation. Every entrepreneur and corporate executive needs a balanced understanding of innovation, creative imitation, and exploitation of success.
The “Curiosity” Disconnect Between Executives and Employees
September 25 by Editorial StaffWhy does this major disconnect exist? And what can organizations do to help tap employees’ curiosity and creativity to fuel breakthroughs and growth? The researchers identified “identity” as a key inf...
Four Entrepreneurship Strategies to Build Your Career
September 24 by William Cohen, Ph.D.See what four basic strategies Drucker used to build his own career.
How to Avoid Inevitable Failure Through Innovation
July 26 by William Cohen, Ph.D.Drucker saw that an organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does at the same time that it must devote itself to creating the new, and insisted that any proposal for a major new effort m...
Ed's Ink: Learning How To Make Innovation Happen In Your Organization
July 16 by Ed's InkOrganizational inertia always pushes for continuing what the organization is already doing. Newness of more than a trivial dimension is typically squashed by the ongoing organization. Yes, squashed!
The Scooter Wars In San Francisco -- Real Disruption?
May 07 by Jim ChampyThe scooter “business model” raises two questions: is this real “disruption” as the company founders would have us and their investors believe and is the “let the regulators be damned” approach a legi...
Has The Dust Settled For Uber? Five Lessons From A Unicorn’s Premature Demise
April 24 by Les TrachtmanLast year we saw Benchmark Capital’s unprecedented and relentless shareholder attack on Travis Kalanick, Uber’s founder and former CEO, which has left the once mythical one-horned creature headless an...
Part IV: Applying The Drucker Approach To Reinventing Government Agencies
April 03 by Ed's InkIn this fourth and final installment of this MMN's e-book series, unlock Drucker’s 6 steps to planning and implementation as well as the thought leader’s 4 keys to making real change happen in your go...
How Big Businesses Are Today's Incubators For Innovation
November 08 by Eric HallerToday, large corporations, in an array of industries, are cultivating entrepreneurial energy – and putting significant resources behind it – to drive business innovation and solve pressing problems.
The Secret Of Demand Side Innovation
October 25 by William Cohen, Ph.D.Would you like to come up with innovations that mark you as an extraordinary performer? In this column, Dr. William Cohen explains how.
Marginal Innovations Are More Disruptive Than You Think
August 16 by Josh SteimleExamples of disruptive innovation tend to get more press attention than marginal innovations. Disruptive innovations are rare--less than 1% of innovations can qualify as the disruptive sort--and they...
Creative Malcontents: Straight Talk About “Talkers” and “Doers”
August 14 by Ed's InkBusy executives understand time management. Experience tells them creative malcontents are time wasters. Yet many on the lecture circuit make a handsome living advocating with missionary zeal the need...
How Activating A Corporate Brand Kickstarts Radical Innovation
July 11 by Sunnie Giles, Ph.D.Co-authored by Torben ValstedWe (Sunnie and Torben) come from different perspectives: Sunnie is an ardent student of radical innovation, and Torben in brands. We combined our expertise to reach a poin...