Innovation
Change and Large Enterprises
This Financial Times article by Hasso Plattner, Co-Founder of SAP caught my eye yesterday, while I was thinking deeply about the complications (difficulties) of executing ‘change’ in large enterprises. Fact: SAP is about as rigid of a company as you can imagine, and HANA, the in-memory-database concept which SAP introduced a few years ago, represents…
Read MoreWhy We Need to Disrupt Corporate R&D Spending Patterns!
Firstly, I am extremely bullish on the innovation CAPACITY of large companies (enterprises). Let’s start with a fact: For most of the past three decades, investments made by the entire venture capital sector totaled less than the R&D and capital expenditure budgets of individual large companies such as IBM, GM, or Merck [Source: Architecture of…
Read MoreBR: Boulevard of Broken Dreams and The Architecture of Innovation
BR: Boulevard of Broken Dreams and The Architecture of Innovation, by Josh Lerner. Josh is professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School and co-director of the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. I am delighted to be sharing 2 new book reviews with you. To understand the true…
Read MoreWhy SIRI And Not Watson?
SIRI is defined as: Siri is a voice-activated app that works with the iPhone 4S and iOS 5 to allow users to take action on their iPhone by speaking. Siri can understand not just basic commands, but also the colloquialisms that are common to human speech. Siri can both speak back to the user and…
Read More“Purpose” – Key In Inspiring And Driving Organizations
I am about to board my flight to Europe and feeling totally elated about this FT article by Andrew Hill (Thank you Andrew!): ‘Purpose’ is the preachy new CEO buzzword It starts out with: When Ellen Kullman, chief executive of DuPont, asked a contract worker on the production line making Kevlar, the fibre used in…
Read MoreDisruption in Big Companies: Difficult? Yes. Impossible? NO!
Large enterprises (companies) become successful because they grow aggressively, globally and they are known to be ‘flawless’ in execution and delivery. This includes the largest computer hardware or software companies, pharmaceutical companies, consumer products good manufacturers, car manufacturers, aerospace and any/all in between. In order to run the very large human resources machinery, over the…
Read More2014: A Great Journey Ahead
In my last blog post, you read my heartfelt thank you and appreciation to all of those who started the necessary dialog about disruption and innovation in 2013. I look forward to meeting new faces and new companies already ready and set up to progress on the journey of disruption and innovation in 2014 and…
Read MoreThank You!
As we bring 2013 to a close, I wanted to thank all of you who opened up your doors and companies and invited me into your companies in 2013 for us to work on disruption and innovation. I appreciate the openness of our interactions, your great attitudes and what we accomplished. Too many to name…
Read MoreLeadership: Out, Influence/Impact: In!
I love what is happening around the globe today. In my work with ProVoke, I am brought into companies to disrupt and create a Culture of Disruption, leading to a Culture of Innovation. As we look at create a culture (versus the old school corporate hierarchy) titles don’t create change, the individual does. It is…
Read MoreFunding, Innovation and Moscow
While many countries talk about the importance of innovation, funding to support true innovation is lacking. This article discusses innovation in Russia as well as several other countries. While intentions to innovate are great and welcome, capital is critical in enabling experimentation and innovation. It is exactly this fact, access to boundless capital, which makes…
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