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Bertrandduperrin bookmarked on 2009-10-20 management innovation strategy garyhamel change

"The day after the lights went down on the World Business Forum, the lights went up on an all day seminar with Gary Hamel across the street at the Time Life Building. It was great to be able to get down to the next level of detail below the talk that Gary gave at the World Business Forum"

  • "While we are in here bullsh**ting about strategy, something is happening out there."
    • Capable of transcending the inherent tradeoffs?
      • Coordination without centralization
      • Scale without inflexibility
      • Leadership without formal heirarchy
  • Our organizations need to move from building competitive advantage to building evolutionary advantage over time, because no matter how good your strategy is, strategies die.
  • But, the longer you delay change, the more painful and expensive the change will be.


  • "Getting pregnant is considered a big success despite the millions of wasted sperm - so what's your corporate sperm count?"
  • Once you know which innovation ideas you are going to pursue, the biggest challenge is to realign talent and provide capita
    • Three questions to determine whether something is an innovation:
      1. Does it have the power to change customer expectations?
      2. Does it have the power to change industry economics?
      3. Does it have the power to change the basis for competition?
    • View everyone as a potential partner
    • What external capabilities can you leverage
    • Example: Ice cream bar partnering with Colgate to have a toothbrush-shaped stick inside with the Colgate brand on it
    • Get customer to innovate (Cisco)
    • Build platforms to innovate (Threadless)
    • Bid out problems (Innocentive, DARPA)
    • Open up your stategy process (IBM innovation jams)

  • "More and more of the work of managing will move to the periphery and we will have fewer and fewer managers."
  • "If life developed on earth according to six sigma principles, we would all still be slime, but damn good slime"

This link has been bookmarked by 3 people and liked by 1 people. It was first bookmarked on 20 Oct 2009, by Dan Keldsen.

  • 20 Oct 09
    iphigenie
    Joelle Nebbe-Mornod

    Gary spoke about how the biggest thing that may limit organizational success most going forward is our organization's ability to evolve their management models. But an even biggr handicap to future success may be the fact that our management models were not built to manage innovation but precision, stability, discipline, and reliability

    management innovation strategy garyhamel change

  • bertrandduperrin
    Bertrand Duperrin

    "The day after the lights went down on the World Business Forum, the lights went up on an all day seminar with Gary Hamel across the street at the Time Life Building. It was great to be able to get down to the next level of detail below the talk that Gary gave at the World Business Forum"

    management innovation strategy garyhamel change

    • "While we are in here bullsh**ting about strategy, something is happening out there."
      • Capable of transcending the inherent tradeoffs?
        • Coordination without centralization
        • Scale without inflexibility
        • Leadership without formal heirarchy
    • 8 more annotations...
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    Dan Keldsen