Jeffrey Phillips summed up some main reasons why firms can’t or won’t innovate: The Tyranny of Today. Yes, I know that most fifth graders may not fully understand the word tyranny, but they understand the pressures of delivering “today”. Most businesses are so focused on delivering this week, or this month, or this quarter that [...]
Peter Smith wrote a very interessting comment on facebook’s F8 Conference at PCWorld: Facebook Plots its Future: Will it Be Our Overlord? I agree with Peter in nearly every point – especially I share this approach to 100%: I prefer to keep my professional and personal lives more or less separate. Although I also make [...]
Harvard Professor Gary Pisano is currently working on a paper about “The Evolution of Science-Based Business: Innovating How We Innovate“. The odd couple science and business works side by side in the process of economic growth but a real cooperation is quite infrequent. One example are corporate industrial laboratories but this form of organized science [...]
I have high hopes tempered with great caution. The entrepreneurs who can capture the limited resources have the potential to do well. Shortage and adversity are powerful stimuli for focusing the mind. credit: Ricky Schmidt I think it is critical to systematically identify what I would call “downturn needs.” There are many different kinds of [...]
Since 2003 the research firm Clean Edge is publishing an annual report on the “Clean Energy Trends”. Here are some key figures about biofuels, wind power, solar photovoltaics and fuel cells from this years issue: Credit: Clean Edge And what are the trends for 2008 (summed up by Joel Makower)? electric cars (how all of [...]
