innovation

Established Company Looking for Chief Innovation Officer

April 30, 2014

Innovation means change and change is a delicate proposition. A headhunter retained by a brand name information services company wanted to get my thoughts about a new position they were doing a search for. She described her client as an established company more than 100 years old that is looking for a global head of […]

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A Formula to Measure Business Agility

April 30, 2014

This weekend I spent an afternoon sitting in a coffee house in my downtown Chicago neighborhood pondering what it means to be agile and how to measure it. The place was busy but I got lucky and snagged the cushy armchair next to the plate glass window in front that looks out on the sidewalk […]

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Massively Multiplayer Online Games as Business Collaboration Platforms

April 30, 2014

One of the fastest growing trends in video games is where multiple players play together. Players are not as interested in competing one-to-one as they are in forming guilds or corporations with other players and working together to accomplish common goals. Collaboration may be more powerful than competition. And these games are setting standards for […]

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EFFICIENCY versus RESPONSIVENESS

April 30, 2014

Get out a blank sheet of paper and make two columns. Label the first column “Efficiency” and label the second one “Responsiveness”. Now think about your company and its capabilities.

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Five Traits of an Agile Enterprise – Parts 4 & 5

April 30, 2014

A network organization structure and financial fluency are the last two of the five traits of an agile enterprise. Without them, the first three traits will be crippled.

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