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December 10, 2011

At the risk of restating the obvious, it would seem that the most notable thing that happened in the world of innovation in 2011, at least as far as the business world is concerned, was the sad death of Steve Jobs. His biography sits at number one on the best seller lists, and when was [...]

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The Billion Dollar Bump

June 20, 2011

When a company achieves greatness, one of the unwelcome side effects is that its leaders become tempted by new challenges elsewhere. So is Apple’s triumph in the market going to cause the company to  start bleeding executives? Last week Apple’s head of retail, Ron Johnson, announced he was leaving to become CEO of J.C. Penney. [...]

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What’s the Right Person Worth in the Knowledge Economy? Ask Mark Hurd.

September 9, 2010

Do you get what this chart is about? Of course you see the funny jump on Tue Sep 7. That’s the “Mark Hurd Effect.” Specifically, the chart shows Oracle’s stock price, and that jump is an increase in the price of Oracle stock between the closing on Friday, September 3, 2010, and the opening on [...]

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Innovation, Trade, and Optimism

May 19, 2010

There was a very fine blog post on a New York Times Science page by John Tierney on Monday, May 17 concerning a new book called The Rational Optimist by Dr. Matt Ridley.  (If you click the link to the New York Times, I apologize on behalf of the Time for the annoying ad you [...]

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The Business Model Universe

February 21, 2010

[This is a follow up to the previous post in this blog, "How to Create a Winning Business Model," February 5, 2010.] If business model innovation is the goal, and for most companies the evidence suggests that it should be, then we need a way to get there. InnovationLabs has created a unique and powerful [...]

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The Future of Business Education

January 25, 2010

There has been a lot written about the rate of change and how the speed of change isn’t going to slow down any time soon. One of the impacts of this condition is the complexity of doing business in any industry or sector of society has increased. This complexity challenges every leader to develop new [...]

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