I was reading today about a number of the biggest product failures of all time (kind of a fun read actually). One of the things that jumped out at me was the number of companies that are known for being really innovative that made the list of failures. Normally if you were to put together […]
Tag Archives: Apple
Stop Firefighting
As traditional organizations look to address the new competition and rapidly increasing pace of change in today’s competitive marketplace I see some fascinating struggles. Traditional markets are seeing unprecedented changes in their customer’s expectations. New competitors who are chipping away at their traditional profit centres. There are even changes in the employee base with the […]
Connecting the Value Chain
Many of the recent Innovation success stories have been about the creation of new ecosystems which have created new customer value in a way that wasn’t imagined previously. The iPod and iTunes created an ecosystem of music which included the simple purchase, organization, and portable playback that previously took several steps and suppliers to achieve. […]
Is Your Culture Conscious?
During this cold and flu season (and having already been stricken with the seasonal bug), something about the concept of a virus struck me as a great lesson for leadership. (OK, maybe it’s the cold medication talking, but stick with me for a minute and we might get somewhere). In the wild viruses strike fear […]
Design Thinking and The Parable of the Fly Fisherman
Sunday night I got started reading my first book in a while (it is hard to get as much reading done when you’re not riding the train for two hours a day). Luckily it is one that I’ve been looking forward to – Change by Design by Tim Brown (CEO of IDEO). I have heard great things about the book […]