How to know when the old models don't work any more

As Malcolm Gladwell and other business writers have found, it is entirely possible to write a compelling article around a rather obvious point, and still hold the reader's attention.  As a case in point I draw your attention to this article - entitled Why Corporate...

The interplay between digital transformation and innovation

I've found that concepts like digital transformation are like eating honey.  The stuff just kind of sticks to you long after you think the experience is over.  As a person who has spent more than 15 years focused on corporate innovation, I find the rapid emergence...

It's past time to reintroduce risk into corporations

I was on a conference call recently, discussing an upcoming keynote that I'll deliver to a academic-federal government program meant to accelerate new technologies from basic research into the market.  We were talking about the "ecosystem" of contributors that can...

What 2019 holds for innovation

I wrote my obligatory look back at 2018 article on innovation recently, so it is natural that we should turn our attention to where innovation will take us in 2019.  In the 2018 review I made some disparaging remarks about Apple, which may or may not have caused it...