Foresight, Innovation & Design
Ventures for Growth

The urgency and necessity of Innovation is now common knowledge. We are hearing the term on many fronts – even President Obama finally mentioned it in his speech on election night. Just as Total Quality Management (TQM), several years ago, managed to create a pervasive awareness and discipline, that enterprises now practice as a matter

This is the second part of my reflection on the 10 Rules for Strategic Innovators book. The fundamental argument of the book as I had said earlier was that the complexity of strategic innovation, the fact that there is no experience to draw upon, makes it necessary to use an experimentation-oriented approach. This would lead me to

I am in the midst of reading “10 Rules for Strategic Innovators” by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble. As I reflect on what I am reading I will write a series of posts – not so much as a review of the book, but the thoughts it triggers. Before I picked up this book, I

Value Architecture – Building an Innovative Enterprise As I think more about Enterprise Innovation, I am of the opinion that the place to start is the Architecture of Value. I was researching what others might have said about the topic, when I came across this post -  Value Architecture – Building an Innovative Organization. The article gets

Much has been written about Community Management. Some time back I was thinking about some key Bodies of Knowledge a Community Manager must possess. In the context of an Enterprise, which is a purposeful entity, the Community serves a specific purpose. Ensuring that the community does indeed deliver on the purpose therefore is I think the primary

The New York Times has an article on how the web is creating unwanted side effects in small towns - http://tinyurl.com/44q8bzk As the web becomes increasingly pervasive, interactions even in small towns, that used to take place in diners and cafes are becoming public. While gossip around these tables did indeed happen before the web –

As I continue to think about the new enterprise, I jotted down some key points that we need to mull over – perhaps they also provide a framework.  1. An Enterprise is a ‘product’ architected and designed with Social Technologies. Any enterprise is a ‘product’ of ‘social technologies’. When I use the term ‘social technologies’,

For some time now I have been working on developing a framework for the Agile Enterprise – recognizing how the emerging enterprise is more than just Social or Open, or driven by purely a temporal innovation in technology. So, here are my thoughts on how this all comes together. I will elaborate more as I

This morning I came across an article in TechCrunch by Vivek Wadhwa on where investments in education should be focused – Engineering or the Liberal arts? Wadhwa an entrepreneur turned academic, was initially inclined himself towards the engineering side of the debate. Bill Gates in a recent address, according to the article had argued that education investments

The term strategy in the context of Social Media or Social Business has different connotations. I  distinguish between three types of ‘strategies’ Business Strategy – or rather a Social Business Innovation Strategy Execution Strategy, and an Operations Strategy I will describe here what you need for a ‘social media’ Business Strategy. Once you have the foundational