The Moment is Now to Leverage Our Knowledge Intangibles
Intangibles make up 70% of the value of the average company. They drive competitive advantage. They determine the innovation capacity of a company. Yet they continue to be ignored. And now we are at a moment of truth. Our economy seemingly made huge progress in the past decades. Computers created efficiencies and fueled profits. They [...]
Reading List: Disrupting ClassDisrupting Class by Clay Christensen, Michael Horn and Curtis Johnson
In this book, he and his co-authors make the case that the entire field of education will be disrupted by computer-aided learning.
Reading List: The Future of Management by Gary Hamel, with Bill Breen
Hamel makes a good case for why modern management is a mature technology. He explains that most of the approaches and tools that we use today were designed to ensure efficient mass production.
Industry Snapshot: Cultivating Innovation
Innovation is not just a process, it is about creating an organization where innovation is part of the core competencies and culture.
Making Innovation Happen
How can you be a more effective innovation leader in your own organization? You should start with the following self-examination:
Lessons from America’s Chief Innovation Officers
A leader at the top of the organization can’t order people to innovate. The job of a leader is, rather, to set the stage for innovation by getting the right intellectual capital in place and asking questions.
The Path from Innovation to Execution
For many reasons, we are thrilled that there is so much attention today on innovation. But we worry that the hype about creativity will lead people to think that good ideas are an end in themselves.
Reading list
One elusive but powerful value builder is innovation. The Innovator’s Solution by Clayton M. Christensen and Michael Raynor is a thought-provoking book that examines the creation of “disruptive innovation,” that is, creation of breakthrough products or services. Examples of past disruptive innovations span from Henry Ford’s Model T to steel mini-mills all the way to [...]
