Recently, word leaked out that Intel (INTC) is evaluating whether to launch a new online television service that competes with cable. It will be a bold move for the chipmaker, which has developed a strong brand in the minds of the consumer, thanks to the long-running Intel Inside campaign. Such a radical shift into the [...]
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Over the course of two days at the World Business Forum we heard from four speakers who particularly focused on the economy: David Rubinstein, co-founder and managing director of private-equity firm The Carlyle Group; economist Jeffrey Sachs, New York Times columnist and 2008 Nobel Economics Prize recipient Paul Krugman, and former President Bill Clinton. Rubinstein [...]
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This past week I attended the World Business Forum in New York as one of a group of bloggers. My real-time comments were posted to Twitter and can be found at search.twitter.com/wbf09. Here’s a longer post synthesizing some of the learnings from the first day. Bill George, former Medtronic CEO and currently a Harvard Business [...]
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On Tuesday, Sony announced plans to introduce an intriguing new e-reader in time for the Christmas season. Analysts immediately asked: Is the device a Kindle killer? That’s actually the wrong question. The right question is whether Sony can create a viable growth business with its new reader. I suspect it can — if its device [...]
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Most observers agree that large companies aren’t optimally organized to innovate. What’s less clear is a better alternative to current organizational designs. An article in the Wall Street Journal last week about a radical organizational experiment at Cisco Systems kicked off a fierce debate on this topic. The article described how Cisco has moved from [...]
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This week’s virtual book tour for Scott Anthony’s book The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times has wrapped up. Thanks to all the bloggers who participated. Here’s the final list of links to all the reviews and interviews: Monday, July 20: Chris Flanagan, BIF Speak Tuesday, July 21: Jeff De Cagna, Principled Innovation [...]
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