35 Posts found for Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI)

Psychologist Richard Farson observed that, although people profess to learn from their mistakes, their behavior is shaped by their successes. This is why change is hard for people. Confronted with failure, or with a new world where the old tricks aren’t working any more, most people keep doing what they have been doing, only harder.

Content: Quotation | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: Experience, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior, Success / Failure

People involved in “risky work”, as opposed to “repetitive work,” face three challenges: to create, to communicate, and to collaborate.

Content: Quotation | Author: Richard P. Gabriel | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: Innovation, Organizational Behavior, Work

The late Michael Dertouzos observed in his last book, The Unfinished Revolution, that all too often, humans are at the service of computers, rather than the much more desirable opposite. To take full advantage of new technologies, to really enable the widest range of possibilities opened up by innovation, we must make sure that technologies aren’t designed in isolation from their eventual users; technology ought … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: Innovation, IT / Technology / E-Business

First of all, you need to fund the people, not the projects. You need both a dream and a vision without breaking the vision down into goals or missions. This, of course, is antithetical to business. Business rationale thinks problem solving is a good rubric and a metaphor for what they’re trying to do. Articulating goals actually stifles innovation.

Content: Quotation | Author: Alan Kay | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Innovation

Content: Related Content | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subject: Economics

Either Do Something Very Beautiful or Very Useful
– former mission on the walls of Bell Labs (pre-divestiture)

Content: Quotation | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: Business Rules, Vision

Research at the Center for Business Innovation (CBI) demonstrates a dramatic shift in value creation over the past decade. Formerly, investors’ understanding of a company’s value resulted from analysis of audited financials such as a balance sheet and income statement. Today, however, a more accurate and comprehensive view of a company’s value needs to account for intangibles such as brand value, alliances, and customer relations. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Jonathan Robinson | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subject: Management

“What is an innovation? Very often, managers view any product, service, technology, or process that is new or different as an innovation. But this definition is limited. In order for something to qualify as a true innovation, it must meet three basic criteria in tandem: It must engage a creative process, it must be distinctive, and it must yield a measurable impact.”

Editor’s Note: a … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Eric L. Chen, Kathryn K. Ho | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: Innovation, Management

The vision of the adaptive enterprise is one that is familiar to all of us: an organization that thrives in a volatile business environment, responds and adapts to business changes, co-evolves with the market, and accelerates innovation through collaboration.

Needless to say, an adaptive supply chain must be supported by adaptive IT architectures and adaptive management models that extend an organization’s capability to rapidly adapt … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Operations

…everyone has a core drama that leads to their personality style. What makes each of us the person we are is the dominance of some inner wish. The wish to be loved, or to be understood, or noticed. The wish to be free from conflict, or to help, or to be able to hurt others. The wish to achieve or the wish to fail. When … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

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One of the founders of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Kay invented the concept of the personal computer (the Alto)

Content: Thought Leader | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subject: Management

Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

Content: Quotation | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subject: Innovation

The fundamental distinction between a platform or line extension product and a breakthrough product is that the latter establishes a need by its mere existence, or establishes an entirely new product category.

Content: Quotation | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subject: Innovation

Whether you like it or not, your identity is no longer something fixed, and no longer a simplistic formula consisting of your name, date of birth, and tax ID number. Today, your identity changes as your behavior does. It arises from not only simple, static data, but also from information about where you go online, what you buy, whom you call, where you call from, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Hadar Dafny | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis

“The key to successful breakthrough innovation lies in learning constantly from the bumpy ride.

Traditional product development races steadily along a linear track toward a pre-defined formal launch date at the finish line. At that moment – and not until that moment – will ultimate success or failure be revealed.

Effective breakthrough product development is different. The breakthrough race is around a circular track – … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Eric Mankin | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: Innovation, Management

Embedded sensors will enable greater device-to-device communication, fueling economic growth in location-based services and transforming business processes across all sectors.

Editor’s Note: This is one of the elements of the CBI’s Future Scan. Though only an overview, some useful insights and concerns are raised.

Content: Article | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis

This ‘Just Thinking’ paper (a CBI term) is a discussion-starter for an element of the topic Strategic Exploration. It offers up four general innovation boundaries: Physical, Knowledge, Context, and Time.

Content: Article | Authors: David Wallace, Rudy Ruggles | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: Innovation, Organizational Behavior

How to turn innovation, often viewed as a haphazard occurrence, into a discipline

Content: Article | Author: Robert B. Tucker | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: Innovation, Management