Rudy Ruggles
“Our” stories are more effective (authentic) than “their” or even “my” stories.
Content: Quotation | Source: “CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI)” | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Persuasion
Rudy Ruggles
Experience enables people to understand and internalize ideas.
Content: Quotation | Source: “CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI)” | Subjects: Experience, Innovation
IMR3: Strategic Exploration Event Report
May 22nd, 2002 saw the start of the third Innovation Management Roundtable (IMR). Coming from across the US and across the ocean, innovation leaders from organizations as diverse as BMW and the U.S. Navy gathered in Cambridge, Massachusetts to learn and apply new ideas about innovation. The theme of this IMR was “Strategic Exploration,” focusing on how organizations can more effectively search for and identity … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Source: “CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI)” | Subject: Management
Intangibles Impact on IPO Success (research findings)
A recent study of US IPOs from 1986 through early 2000, conducted by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, found that “new economy” firms that promoted the use of non-financial measures did worse when evaluated by those same measures. This compounds their well-documented failure to provide meaningful financial returns and confirms the importance of identifying, measuring, and disclosing appropriate intangible value drivers.
Furthermore, the study found that … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Jon Low | Source: “CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI)” | Subjects: Accounting, Finance | Industry: Investment Banking
Richard Pascale
The seductive pull of equilibrium poses a constant danger to successful established companies.
…While equilibrium endangers living systems, it often wears the disguise of an attribute. Equilibrium is concealed inside strong values or a coherent, close-knit social system, or within a company’s well-synchronized operating system (often referred to as “organizational fit”). Vision, values, and organizational fit are double-edged swords.
Content: Quotation | Source: “CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI)” | Subjects: Challenge, Miscellaneous
Alan Kay
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Content: Quotation | Source: “CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI)” | Subjects: Future, Innovation
Missing Markets: Strategies for Exploring the World’s Biggest Neglected Business Opportunites (.pdf)
An interesting summary and framework for the issues that arose from a group gathering at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young’s Center for Business Innovation to discuss “missing markets.” The paper offers a systematic method for identifying missing markets, analyzing what would be required to provide those markets, and evaluating the consequences.
Content: Article | Author: Scott Borg | Source: “CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI)” | Subjects: Economics, Innovation
John Rawls (American philosopher)
Isn’t a fair social system the one that we would pick if we didn’t know ahead of time what our role will be?
Content: Quotation | Source: “CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI)” | Subjects: Government, Philosophy
Eric Chen
Ultimately, companies are like people, in that what they forget is essential for determining what they remember.
Content: Quotation | Source: “CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI)” | Subject: Personal Development
Biology-Inspired Software: Metaphor, Mechanism, and Meaning (.pdf)
For at least thousands of years, humans have looked to nature for inspiration for technology. It’s hard not to look at birds and wish you could fly, too. This thought hasn’t escaped computer scientists (well, not the part about flying), and within the last few years there has been a surge of interest in looking to biology for help in answering some of the pressing … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Geoff Cohen | Source: “CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI)” | Subject: Trends / Analysis
Richard Farson (psychologist) / David McIntosh
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: Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior
Manfred Kets de Vries
There are few universals in life, but transference is one. What transference says is that no relationship we have is a new relationship; all relationships are colored by previous relationships.
Content: Quotation | Source: “CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI)” | Subject: Personality / Behavior
Dynamic Pricing Models: Opportunity for Action
The Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation has researched more than 60 new business drivers and examined more than 50 company examples to determine which dynamic pricing model best supports the external environment and business strategy of a particular business. From this extensive research they have developed a dynamic pricing methodology for successful pricing. This white paper provides an overview of … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Anita Srivastava | Source: “CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI)” | Subjects: Pricing, Strategy
Community Innovation and the Aspiring Innovator (.pdf)
The focus of this Just Thinking piece is that an organization implementing an innovation process needs to understand the dynamic and evolving nature of organizational behavior and culture. Too often, innovation processes fail to recognize that companies change, learn, and improve with time. As a result, the solutions are static. This Just Thinking will help to clarify how a company can migrate, over time, towards … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Source: “CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI)” | Subjects: Innovation, Organizational Behavior