Few ideas are attracting as much attention as that of ecosystems. Casually described as ‘constellations of partners’ or ‘networks of networks’, these metaphors can blind us to the intricacy of the ...

Over the past year, working with ecosystem development in diverse industries has led to a number of insights into the role of ecosystems as an engine for innovation and learning and the managerial...

Using archival data from two different industries, this paper examines the relationship between organisational slack and new product time to market performance. Prior research has shown that there ...

The article discusses how lessons applicable to executive education can be taken from the motion picture "Apollo 13," the musical "West Side Story," and the jazz musician Miles Davis. The authors f...

So much of what is done as work by knowledge-professionals in today’s complex organizations is about delivering messages, moving ideas. Be they instructions, directions, opinions, suggestions, less...

Louis Vuitton’s choice of Pharrell Williams as its new creative director for men’s fashions, and to assume the role that became vacant with the tragic loss of Virgil Abloh. In yesterday’s announce...

Maybe, the most important thing that’s up with disruption, these days, is the amount of attention it is receiving. Depicted in the image above, which is derived from searching for “Disruptive Innov...

A recent Microsoft study of 30,000 people revealed that 46% of workers are considering a major career pivot or transition after the Covid years. For many, this search goes beyond just a change of r...

Business model innovation is the hottest topic today in innovation conversations, despite its being so seemingly invisible, even to the point of being overlooked in many innovation-measurement sche...

Disruption continues to be a familiar topic in today’s C-suite; almost always spoken about in hushed tones, with frequent glances over one’s shoulder, as if the inevitable is about to arrive at any...

There may be no more iconic American brand than General Electric Appliances. After all, an American President, Ronald Reagan, built a large part of his public visibility selling the very idea that ...

Ecosystems have become the hottest new idea in managerial conversations today. While the previous favorite, “disruption,” posed problems and suggested despair, ecosystems are all about solutions an...

Today, as this is written, it is impossible to speak of heroism without acknowledging that real heroism has rarely been so abundantly visible as it is, at this very moment, in the streets of Ukrain...

Want to change the culture of your organization; give it a complete transformation? Who doesn't? But, when do you really know that the time is right for such an ambitious undertaking? At the core o...

Blood on the stage, racial tensions turned violent, dissonant music and serious dance: from the beginning, the whole idea of West Side Story was definitely a disconnect from conventional musical th...

The recent announcement by Greg Norman that his Saudi-funded partnership, LIV Golf Investment, will be investing $200 million into the Asian Tour, with a deliberate challenge of a Jeddah start on t...

Serious transformation is not for the faint-hearted, and, so, it isn’t every week that an iconic firm announces such an initiative. The week before this past week, three such organizations, GE, Tos...

The decision this morning by Mr. Zhang Ruimin, Chairman and CEO of the Haier Group, to not participate in the nomination of new directors, has taken many of his admirers by surprise. The long-servi...

It used to be that we could excuse most CEO’s for not being more involved or supportive of innovation, because they typically did not come from a technical background. That excuse became invalid wh...

The importance of the people at the top of an organization to launch or suppress transformational change is hard to deny. Despite a popularity for true bottom-up revolution, the catalyst for change...

We are living in a golden age of business model innovation. Look around, business models are disrupting industries everywhere around you: traditional news media are being challenged by subscription...

It’s been more than a year, now, and the Covid-19 pandemic, instead of just disappearing, is still very much a part of our lives. We are well over one hundred million total cases having occurred wo...

Think you can’t learn less? Close your eyes, plug your ears, hold your nose. See, already you are learning less: less about what’s going on around you; less about your partners and less about yours...