From Rosabeth Moth: "Strategy on innovation"
5 F lessons applies to innovation: focus, flexibility , fast, friendly on collaboration, fun. Think beyond your company to extend your partners like IBM does. Also innovation means hard work, find solutions to save the world, doing something instead of complaining, and is implied in the culture (willing to win, adapt, transform...)
From Ray Kurzweil: "Future's innovation"
Technology doubles power every year, potential growth is predictable. In 2010 no computers, everything will be virtual. More info at http://www.kurzweilai.net/
Today top challenges are continous changes, high competition (barries falling down to enter into big markets) and knowledge is becoming a comodity.
Mgrs job changes from job description mgmt (where mgrs tell what others should do) to create and estimulate the enviroment helping employees to do things. Ideally mgr's span of control should be 60 employees by mgr. All commitment should be voluntair, everyone is able to say no to any request. How to become mgmt innovator leader? Transparency, small teams becoming profit centers, look what new comers are doing (don't look at top fortune companies).
Most of people see web is changing operational model, some people see web is changing business model and just a few people see web as an enabler of mgmnt model changes. Until now, beaucracy and markets (where markets promoted the use of creativity). Humans always has been adapted to circunstances. Now it's time that humans are able to work differently.
More info at www.wsj.com/hamel
Vijay Govindarajan (VG): "Execution on innovation"
Strategy is about selectively forget the past and create the future while most of companies are spending their time and efforts in managing the present.
VG paradigm: we should ask ourselves "how India can transform or help Ford?" instead "what Ford can do for India"
Do an analysis about competition for the future -> oportunity gap -> renewal
Best practices + benchmarking: is not strategy. Next practices instead of best practices.
Growth Playbook: put your 2009 projects into 3 areas: (1) core biz (2) adjacent space (3) enterely new space. And then think about which is your right balance?
His book is "10 rules for strategic innovators"and his blog at http://www.vijaygovindarajan.com/