Commentary

“Wind extinguishes a candle but energizes a fire. Likewise with randomness, uncertainty, chaos: you want to use them, not hide […]

The first time I saw Clayton Christensen speak was at the Front End of Innovation conference in the early 2000’s. […]

Frameworks and taxonomies bring clarity and order to complex practices. This is nowhere more true than in the practice of […]

Businesses aren’t getting the impact they want from innovation because of ‘the day-to-day routines and rituals that stifle innovation’. Every […]

What is the relationship between a company’s R&D spending and economic returns. Is it correlated (positive or negative). Is there […]

The recent innovation ‘wave’ (let’s not call it a fad) of corporate-startup collaboration has spawned all kinds of ‘new’ practices, […]

The technological/diffusion S-curve has been researched and written about many times (and in a lot more depth – see this, […]

This paper presents the origins, motivations and basic principles of Effectuation, a ‘ logic of thinking, discovered through scientific research, […]

This is a great case study on the lack of future insight, but it’s only half complete. The author tells […]

By now, all of us familiar with the vast body of innovation literature and commentary have probably had enough with […]

Gary Pisano has been making the rounds recently as part of his tour promoting his new book ‘Creative Construction’. You […]

A good idea is worth nothing without great execution… ideas are great. But in a weird way it’s almost like […]

While this is an article about education for social innovation, it is supremely relevant to the education and practice of […]

The crux of this article is that breakthrough technologies are initially applied to existing problems but they end up creating […]

The author is a big believer in the usefulness of creating a Minimally Viable Product to learn in the real […]