Enterprise Innovation

The Culture Clash of Innovation

‘Innovation’ vs. ‘optimization’ require different organizational cultures that neutralize each other when mixed. But many companies need to do both. How can they succeed?

Reinventing Hackathons (Part 1): Why Top-Down Never Works

The hackathon is a mainstay of tech company culture, but what is its actual value and how can we maximize its considerable potential?

The fragility of product strategy

Innovation and antifragility

Business models by organizational stage

Notes on System 1-4

Some notes on how organizational stages of development correlate with the kind of business model you would expect to find. I use Likert’s “system” nomenclature for compatibility with the broad…

Reinventing Hackathons (Part 2): A Culture of Purposeful Tinkering

Hackathons are one or two day events devoted to free-form tinkering by ad hoc groups of engineers, open to anyone in the group (usually, the whole company). There is a large literature on this mode of innovation…