by | Mar 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
A couple of weeks ago I was reading Gillian Tett's column in the Financial Times. She typically writes about the financial industry, and I enjoy the way she is able to make complicated ideas clear and understandable. As I started reading this particular...
by | Feb 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
I teach a multidisciplinary product development course at Boston University. For their semester project, the students have to develop a new product that incorporates what they are learning in Marketing, Operations Management, Finance, and Information Systems. At...
by | Feb 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
There is an interesting post on the Innovation Policy Blog. In this post they echo and comment on many of the statements from the President's State of the Union address about the need to invest in innovation. I agree with most of these...
by | Dec 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
Last year I wrote a post about abductive and adductive reasoning, and how they are important skills for innovation. A couple of months after I wrote it, I was in a discussion about the topic with someone who insisted that abductive reasoning is the only valid form of...
by | Aug 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
A couple of weeks ago I was given an advance copy of a new book called The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge, by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble, two faculty members from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. The publishing date...
by | Aug 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
I was recently asked to contribute a short piece to the blog section of a new website – OnInnovation. It's sponsored by the Henry Ford Foundation, and is intended to collect insights from innovators and thought leaders, and enable people to connect...
