Innovation and the Lead User
Innovation is the specific tool of the entrepreneur according to Peter Drucker. How this tool actually works is of deep interest. One recent book on innovation has claimed that it is not possible to...
View ArticleNew Blogging Directions
Change, yet again, dear friends. First Four Months of 2012We are one third plus six days into 2012. At the beginning I targeted eight different priority areas to change/improve. I’ve given myself...
View ArticleEntrepreneurship = Innovation + Marketing
Peter Drucker claimed that there were only two areas of interest in terms of Entrepreneurship: Innovation and Marketing. Innovation is the creation of a new level of performance (mostly through...
View ArticleEvolution is Adaptation, not Fate
Evolution is about adaptation (and natural selection) but the part most interesting is the adaptation that is possible in our individual lives. This does not mean we can become another species in one...
View ArticleHow the Impossible becomes Passe
The nature of innovation and adaptation…What is impossible in December, Becomes possible in January, Actual in February, No longer acceptable in MarchTweet
View ArticleChange the World… To What?
The inane, though of course superficially appealing, desire to change the world. The question in response is to what? After all, some changes are either inconsequential, or worse, complete disasters,...
View ArticleInnovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker
Peter Drucker – The Man who Invented Management Peter Drucker died in 2005, eight days shy of his 96th birthday. The man literally invented the discipline of management and the management consultant....
View ArticleSmall is Beautiful
From an entrepreneurial perspective, certain innovation strategies work best with small teams, but can be extremely profitable, much more so than large teams can be. Even global services such as...
View ArticleThe Importance of LinkedIn
Numbers can be relatively meaningless, but orders of magnitude are nonetheless important (and of course, revenue). Social media accounts/active users for various Internet properties provide some food...
View ArticleNote on Multidisciplinarity
When I was in a PhD program, and before that an MS, the academic researchers and the administration all talked about how important advances in science and scholarship will come from interdisciplinary...
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