Papers/Comments

All downloads are free except for Toyota!

Define your company’s ‘Spectrum of Innovation’. We set out an approach – 14 pages - to portray the role innovation plays in a corporation. We comment on Katzenbach’s 3 categories and the role of innovation in each type. We use Starbucks’ spectrum of innovation as an example. Try portraying your own organization! Download Defining the Spectrum of Innovation.

Schultz and Starbucks Corporation; the role of innovation in the recent turnaround of Starbucks. Download Starbucks. Schultz’s new book, Onward, provides rare insight into the thinking of a founder of a highly-innovative company as he faces a crises.

RIM (Research in Motion); what to look for in RIM’s strategy and management practices which would provide shareholders with the confidence to invest in RIM for gain over the medium and longer term. Download RIM What to Look for. The full assessment is provided under ‘Corporate Profiles’. We are not optimistic about RIM’s capacity for recovery!

Innovation initiatives. Download: How you approach innovation depends on your starting point2. Find out more about the innovation needs in your own corporation.

A corporate environment for innovation? What is it anyway? Download this power point presentation; General Environment for Corporate Innovation. Take a look at the various Factors (and their connectivity) which contribute to innovativeness.

Many Factors contribute to a corporate culture which sustains innovativeness. Get the picture.

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has just issued its 7th annual report on innovation wherein the authors identify a number of ‘hurdles’ impacting innovation. This paper explores the relationship between ‘hurdles’ and a culture for innovation.  We provide comment. [September 21, 2010, 4 pages].

Nine characteristics of innovative companies. We comment on 9 characteristics.

BP’s Newest New  Culture. Hayward’s legacy, Dudley’s challenge. With the failure of its off-shore Macondo drilling rig and its tarnished reputation for offshore drilling, world-wide attention has been drawn to BP. Bob Dudley has now taken over from Tony Harward as C.E.O. Recent announcements indicate yet more organization and management changes are underway at BP. BP’s culture will be changed – yet again. Are these changes building on the innovative initiatives taken by Tony Hayward? Is BP’s risk profile affected?. BP’s Newest New Culture download. [October 23, 2010, 8 pages].

By making a contribution of $10 to the on-going costs of this webs site you receive a write-up on the impact of recent recalls on Toyota’s culture for innovation. Thank you in advance for your contribution.

• Toyota's Culture for Innovation - Post Recall - Will Toyota’s innovative culture transcend the recall catastrophy? Yes, but Toyota needs to delve deeply into its culture to understand why its response has been so inappropriate. Is this a wake-up call to other large Japanese companies? Prepared March 19, 2010. 17 pages.
  

  10.00
• View Cart