Innovation Wars Part 1: Innovation is Hell
Real innovation is exhausting. Changing how a group of people of any size perceives and organizes itself is just plain hard. It’s like General Robert E. Lee said of war: It is well that war is so...
View ArticleInnovation Wars Part 2: War and Peace
This is Part 2 of Innosanity’s series, Innovation Wars. Innovation can come from anyone at any time, but it isn’t for everyone all the time. Managing innovators is all about timing. Treating them the...
View ArticleInnovation Wars Part 3: A Tale of Two…Companies
This is the followup to yesterday’s feature, War and Peace. Google: There is hardly a business writer who hasn’t praised Google’s various innovation-friendly policies, notably the 20% time rule....
View ArticleInnovation Wars Part 4: Shock and Awe
“Shock and Awe (technically known as rapid dominance) is a military doctrine based on the use of overwhelming power, dominant battlefield awareness, dominant maneuvers, and spectacular displays of...
View ArticleInnovation Wars Part 5: Focused Fire
One of the advantages of being a large, multi-division company like IBM or Johnson & Johnson is that keeping your innovation capability in fighting form without distracting the company from the...
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