An Experiment in Collaborative Business Model Innovation

I came across Business Model Generation courtesy of those I am following on Twitter and it looks to offer some new thinking around business model innovation. Here is their preamble. Synopsis Disruptive new business models are emblematic of our generation. Yet they remain poorly understood, even as they transform competitive landscapes across industries. Business Model Generation offers you powerful, simple, tested tools for understanding, designing, reworking, and implementing business models. Business Model Generation is a practical, inspiring handbook for anyone striving to improve a business model — or craft a new one.

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9 Traits of Successful Innovators | Stefan Lindegaard: Leadership+Innovation

In my last post, I give my five cents on how a career looks like for innovation leaders and intrapreneurs. But what does it take to get a successful career within innovation? It starts with traits and through my many interactions with innovation leaders and intrapreneurs, I have identified the below 8 characteristics that set these great people apart from others: eader • Holistic Point of View: Since their role involves assuring that innovation becomes part of the DNA of your organization, innovation leaders need to be capable of analyzing the big picture both in and outside the company. This includes the ability to decipher the internal political landscape that will impact their ability to move innovation forward as well as having a thorough understanding of the outside forces that shape your company’s marketplace opportunities. This trait is a

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Profits Down, Spending Steady: The Global Innovation 1000

Booz Companys annual study of the world's biggest corporate spenders finds that most companies have stuck with their innovation programs despite the recession - and many are boosting spending to compete more effectively in the upturn.

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Why I'm Following the Disruption - Scott Anthony, MD Innosight

A central argument of this blog is that every company must grapple with the reality that their current business model has a finite life, which means seeking reinvention and transformation. Leaders, too, need to constantly think about how they can reinvent and transform themselves. My own transformation begins this month as I transition from running Innosight's consulting operations to head up Innosight Ventures, Innosight's incubation and investing arm, in Singapore. This is a wonderful opportunity for me to move from advising companies on issues of disruptive innovation to the true front line of disruption. Innosight Ventures has proven the most promising of Innosight's experiments. We set Innosight Ventures up a few years ago as a separate entity to incubate and invest in disruptive growth ventures. We very intentionally kept the business separate because of its distinct business model. In that time period Innosight Ventures created close to 100 business plans, tested about a dozen ideas in markets, and has gained traction with four ventures:

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How Do Innovators Think? - HBR Editors' Blog

This is very old stuff Harvard is revisiting. There are many pieces of literature and many methodologies around creativity and discovery - best known and most popular currently is the Deep Dive video from IDEO. Nevertheless this short piece from the recent Harvard Editor's Blog is worth reading, simply to jolt the mind. . What makes visionary entrepreneurs such as Apple's Steve Jobs, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Ebay's Pierre Omidyar and Meg Whitman, and P&G's A.G. Lafley tick? In a question-and-answer session with HBR contributing editor Bronwyn Fryer, Professors Jeff Dyer of Brigham Young University and Hal Gregersen of Insead explain how the "Innovators' DNA" works.This post is part of HarvardBusiness.org's Creativity at Work special package. Fryer: You conducted a six-year study surveying 3,000 creative executives and conducting an additional 500 individual interviews. During this study you found five "discovery skills" that distinguish them. What are these skills?

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