Posts Tagged ‘Culture of Disruption’
An Innovation Website Alone Does Not Make a Company Innovative
In the last 2 weeks I have been fortunate enough to be invited by a number of midsize and large enterprises to present ProVoke and start the dialog of Disruption to Innovation…. And more importantly launching the Culture of Disruption (CofD) as the necessary first step. CofD is a central premise of ProVoke and how…
Read MoreYou’re never too small to disrupt
The ability to bring about positive disruption within a business has nothing to do with your place on the org chart. Try telling that to most employees. One comment that comes up every time I speak is that the audience participants feel powerless in their large corporations. Generally I am speaking with MBA students or…
Read MoreWhat would Steve Do?
In writing Provoke, I drew on Apple and Steve Jobs repeatedly to illustrate the importance of disruption leading to innovation and excellence. Apple is the gold standard for what a company could do if it allowed itself the permission to actively disrupt the status quo. Under the late Jobs, Apple disrupted the music industry with…
Read MoreAnyone Can Disrupt
If you’re one player in a big company, you can’t be a disruptor, right? Wrong. You were hired because you are smart, educated and innovative. You have a responsibility to disrupt the way things are done when it will serve your company and its stakeholders. In my book, Provoke, I write that employees are critical players…
Read MoreVive le Disruptive Consumer!
How better to illustrate the point of the power of the customer as part of the Culture of Disruption than the news that an activist investor group has approached the board of directors of Research In Motion (RIM), makers of the BlackBerry (and masters of the “see no iPhone, hear no iPhone, speak no iPhone” school of management) to propose innovations to keep the company competitive?
Read MoreGoing Postal
A few weeks back, the United States Postal Service declared an upcoming $10 billion loss and said it might need to lay off over 120,000 people. In an interview the president of the letter carrier association and number of other postal service officials discussed the reasons for the current situation. The following made me fall…
Read MoreEverybody is Responsible…Except Us?
Who’s responsible for a company’s fate? Take Enron. All of us saw the valuation of this company skyrocket without explanation during the drunken euphoria of the bubble days. We loved Enron because our stock was making us rich. The shareholders were sleeping by not demanding answers. The board was bought and sold. The employees were…
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