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High Risk Innovation: Risked Big, Lost Bigger

April 21, 2013

Ron Johnson, the former head of Apple’s magnificent and uber-profitable retail empire, left Apple to take over as CEO of JCPenney in late 2011.  Johnson was brought in to transform the staid and failing retailing giant into a modern retailer, but alas, his Apple Store mojo didn’t translate to well to the department store format, [...]

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Innovation & Investment Insights: Big Change Coming

February 18, 2013

Conferences often provide great opportunities to get a lot of new information in a short amount of time.  This was exactly my experience at the IBF Corporate Venturing Conference, held February 11-13.  The conference brought together venture investors with corporate venture managers in a series of great discussions about the venture investment process, it’s risks, [...]

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Darth Vader Meets the Death Eaters

December 1, 2012

Disney recently announced the acquisition of the Star Wars Empire for a tidy billion.  Bravo to George Lucas for creating a set of compelling characters and plot lines, which together seem like such a natural fit for Disney’s entertainment empire.  (But could Walt Disney ever have imagined owning Darth Vader??) The topic of this [...]

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Highlights from the Bookshelf

October 7, 2012

Books, great books certainly, are deeply personal.  We spend many hours absorbing the thoughts and ideas of an author, and we get to know them in a unique and intimate way.  There’s nothing like finding a great work, as what could be better than delving into 500 pages of deeply reasoned and well written exploration [...]

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Innovation in Space

August 18, 2012

One of the fields in which innovation is paramount, and constant, is the development of humanity’s capabilities to explore, live, and work in space.  Success in the emerging space economy is now understood to be central to every nation’s terrestrial economic success, and our understanding of what is required to succeed in our space-based scientific [...]

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5 Million? No thanks …

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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