Sitemap - 2007 - Thought Sparks

Fail Fast, Fail Cheap - Merck rewards scientists for failure

Business Development Resources for New Entrepreneurs

Columbia Faculty on “What is the Entrepreneurial Mindset”

Dumbest moments in business 2007 - I do miss Business 2.0

Google Docs Discovery-Driven Strategy

Google Docs Discovery-Driven Strategy

Tips for Cognitive Fitness

Fascinating study on R&D Spending and return on innovation by Booz Allen & Hamilton

Fascinating study on R&D Spending and return on innovation by Booz Allen & Hamilton

Overcoming resistance - Monsanto’s stealth strategy

Here’s a scary statistic - consumer debt on revolving credit

Incredible shrinking economies

Real Leading Indicators in Retail

Business Model Change as an industry sector evolves

Is your company unintentionally creating executive blind spots?

HBR Brief—Key ideas from the article by Rita Gunther McGrath and Ian C. MacMillan

HBR Brief—Key ideas from the article by Rita Gunther McGrath and Ian C. MacMillan

Entrepreneurial Mindset: Recommended Reading in WSJ Article

Consumption Chain - customers value a complete experience, but companies organize otherwise

Critical Success Factors for Corporate Ventures

Rita McGrath quoted in Business Review, November 2007

Making passengers smile at Zurich International Airport - the power of small differentiators

Columbia Business School offers one of the best “spare time” B Schools in Business Week

Can Entrepreneurship be Taught?

Ten Telltale Signs of a Flawed Venturing Process

Rita McGrath quoted in Advertising Age

So now CEO’s have to create value? How novel!

Managing your boss

Competing with your customers as you grow

GPS Technology to end car crashes

How fleeting an advantage can be in financial services -

Venture Capitalists may not be so good at stopping failing projects after all

Corporate Venturing - Stop being so fickle!

How one industry was nearly undermind by its own success - Cycling

Observations on educational institutions

Master Class by Rita McGrath featured in Recruiter Magazine in the UK

Of curtains and cup holders

Opportunity Idea:  A financial product that would help those crippled by credit card debt

Do you think banks process transactions first-come-first served?  Think again.  Opportunity!

My co-author, Ian C. MacMillan, cited for his social enterprise efforts

My co-author, Ian C. MacMillan, cited for his social enterprise efforts

If you want to be more productive, stop multi-tasking

Market Busting Case Studies and Applications

How much does the prestige of a university matter to business?

Will a weaker dollar change outsourcing habits?

Rita McGrath Quoted in Dallas Morning News

Rita McGrath Quoted in Oregon Business article

Rita McGrath Quoted in New York Times

Rita McGrath Podcast at Private Banking Innovation.com

“Discovery Driven Planning” praised by Clayton Christensen

“Discovery Driven Planning” praised by Clayton Christensen

Rita McGrath quoted in Sustainable Industries Journal

Rita McGrath quoted in Daily Herald re:  corporate universities.

Rita McGrath attends Microsoft CEO Summit

Rita McGrath in Columbia Ideas @ Work

How will TV change

Rita McGrath quoted at Expansion Management

Leaner not necessarily better for corporate Headquarters

Competitive Separation vs. Competitive Advantage

Market Busters being published in Indonesia!

Is Web 2.0 a bubble?

Swiss Re goes ‘green’

Swiss Re goes ‘green’

Entrepreneurial Japan - that’s news!

Entrepreneurial Japan - that’s news!

From good ideas to actual businesses

Creating a more innovative culture

Desperate shortage of the college educated

XM and Sirius to merge - Why are we not surprised?

XM and Sirius to merge - Why are we not surprised?

Book recommendation - The Halo Effect

Book recommendation - The Halo Effect

What Americans spend on pets

Failing to invest in innovation when times are good

Astonishing errors

Organizing Innovation Projects

Ten “worst practices” for gaining benefits from Innovation

Ten “worst practices” for gaining benefits from Innovation

Discovery Driven Planning principles cited in “As Yahoo Falters, Executive’s Memo Calls for Overhaul