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What the Economy Means for Innovators: Report from the World Business Forum
Over the course of two days at the World Business Forum we heard from four speakers who particularly focused on the economy: David Rubinstein, co-founder and managing director of private-equity firm...
View ArticleMust-See TV – from Intel?
Recently, word leaked out that Intel (INTC) is evaluating whether to launch a new online television service that competes with cable. It will be a bold move for the chipmaker, which has developed a...
View ArticleFirst Mover or Fast Follower?
Transformational developments are swirling around the banking industry — as they are in nearly every industry. Companies like Citigroup are reimagining bank branches. Startups like Simple are...
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Innosight Opens Business Design Lab with Launch of “How Will You Measure Your...
Innosight opened the doors to our new Business Design Lab for its first public event this spring to celebrate cofounder Clay Christensen’s new book How Will You Measure Your Life? Anchoring the firm’s...
View ArticleInnovation Advice Inspired by a Children’s Magazine
A seminal memory of childhood for many Americans of my age was the arrival of the magazine Highlights for Children every month. The magazine was chock full of goodness, but my favorite part was the...
View ArticleHow Will You Measure Your Company’s Life?
Clayton Christensen’s book How Will You Measure Your Life has turned into a well-deserved best seller. Beyond drawing individual lessons from the book, corporate leaders should turn the central framing...
View ArticleThe Five Cs of Opportunity Identification
Simply asking “what job is the customer trying to get done?” can be a powerful way to enable innovation, because it forces you to go beyond superficial demographic markers that correlate with purchase...
View ArticleHow Arrogance Can Blind Your Transformation Efforts
An acquaintance of mine (let’s call him George) is an acknowledged thought leader on a topic that the senior-most executives at a particular company had placed high on their agenda. But the middle...
View ArticleStart Building Your Growth Factory
One question I’ve gotten about the e-book that I wrote with my colleague David Duncan, Building a Growth Factory, is where to start. The book’s central theme is that companies can improve their ability...
View ArticleInnovate Faster or Better?
The other week I met with the leader of a new growth business for a large Asian company. The meeting was miles away from the corporate headquarters. The leader proudly showed me around her office,...
View ArticleWhen Ads Get (Too) Personal
The other day I watched my first episode of Mad Men. I’m a little late to the game, I know, but that’s what having Netflix, Hulu Plus, and Comcast on Demand are for. The irony of using anytime,...
View ArticleMust-See TV – from Intel?
Recently, word leaked out that Intel (INTC) is evaluating whether to launch a new online television service that competes with cable. It will be a bold move for the chipmaker, which has developed a...
View ArticleThe Facebook Investor You Never Want to Become
A few weeks ago, I read an article in the Wall Street Journal about people who had opened up their very first investment accounts just to get in on the Facebook IPO. One man they profiled had purchased...
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Disrupting Advertising: When Mobile Solves Marketing Problems in Ways...
Singapore should be a prime laboratory for mobile advertising that yields lessons for the rest of the world. This island nation sports 1.5 mobile phones for every person. Ride any train, and it will be...
View Article5-Second Lesson: Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be About a Breakthrough
I recently started watching “The Men Who Made America,” the History Channel series about Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Ford, J.P. Morgan, and Carnegie. The first episode contained some great quotes, so I’ve...
View Article5-Second Innovation Lesson: The Idea is to See What’s Missing
For the latest great quote about innovation, we turn to Russell Simmons, founder of breakthrough hip-hop label Def Jam. The quote is from the History Channel series, “The Men Who Built America.” “The...
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Five Ways to Achieve Affordability Without Sacrificing Margins
Despite aggressive price cuts and advertising, U.S. retailers pulled in a modest 2% same-store, year-on-year sales increase on Black Friday and Thanksgiving weekend, the weakest performance since...
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When Rising Revenue Spells Trouble
Readers in industries where the pace of change has slowed and ambiguity has decreased, please stop reading. This post isn’t for you. Everyone still here? Thought so. An interconnected world where...
View ArticleThe Strategic Mistake Almost Everybody Makes
“It is simple math,” the strategist said in a tone that sounded suspiciously similar to how I explain things to my six-year-old daughter. “Decreasing churn by a percent — a single percent! — creates...
View ArticleWhy You Have to Generate Your Own Data
This is it. You’ve aligned calendars and will have all the right decision-makers in the room. It’s the moment when they either decide to give you resources to begin to turn your innovative idea into...
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