Innovation
Consequential Disruption
Why Global Disruption is not enough. We Need to Disrupt MEANINGFULLY! Why? As you know, I have been a strong advocate of disruption leading to innovation from the 1st day of my career post graduate school (Mathematics) at BBN (Bolt Beranek & Newman) in Cambridge. We invented things that did not exist and in as…
Read MoreHave the Tech Giants Stopped (Seriously Slowed Down) Meaningful Innovation? And Why?
For the last 16 months in my blog posts, we have been touching upon the many reasons that disruption and innovation is so complicated in large enterprises, which also include the tech giants. Michael Malone’s June 2nd article in WSJ titled: An Innovation Slowdown at the Tech Giants, prompted me to share the following thoughts…
Read MoreSoccer or Football, Anyone???
Dear readers and friends, I promise many new blogs being planned as we speak and I will be publishing these in the weeks to come. But for now, it is time to talk about something else. Why? Well, because it is FIFA-season! This is the first year that my family and I have missed the…
Read MoreDisruption, Innovation And The Necessity Of Creative/Engaged Collaboration
The art of disruption and collaborative innovation is a very complex and often sensitive topic. In my line of work (as an innovator and disruptor), I am brought into medium and large enterprises with the explicit mission of breaking things to identify and collaborate on new areas of business. We hit many levels of resistance…
Read MorePressure Is On And Hopefully Growing Rapidly!
Friends, as we have discussed in the past many blogs, the pressure on enterprises to transform is not only real, but intensifying rapidly. Excellent! There was a good article discussing this recently on TechCrunch: The Pressure On Enterprises To Transform Intensifies Two major attributing reasons include: Thanks to Apple, Google and Amazon and a few…
Read MoreInnovation= Freedom of Thought/Creativity
Innovation IS NOT a process OR a systematic procedure A few days ago I was engaged in a conversation with a client around innovation. I asked him to explain what innovation meant to him and his company. He said: “ We are highly innovative and have a great innovative culture. We have defined innovation in…
Read MoreInnovation Strategy vs. Culture of Innovation
Here’s something to think about: Strategy vs. Culture when it comes to disruption and innovation in large enterprises. More and more of the large enterprises under duress and pressure from clients are trying to become more innovative. I would love to say that many are embracing the merits of mindful disruption, but from experience I would…
Read MoreChange 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…
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