The Importance of Being Earnest
The subject of authenticity appears to be a real hot topic these days - both in the political arena and in the realm of business.
We appear to long for authenticity in all our major relationships and public/private interactions, and there is a growing understanding within the business community that our constituencies want us to be [...]
The Importance of Execution: IBM’s Innovation Man Commercial
Have you seen IBM’s “Innovation Man” commercial? I think it’s a real hoot and for those of you who haven’t seen it, I’ll try to capture it’s essence…
Scene: Outside an office building, female business professional walking away from building towards an inbound middle-aged, rather paunchy guy in a superhero outfit with a large “I” across [...]
Recommended Reading: The Myths of Innovation
Recently finished a wonderful book on the subject of innovation by Scott Berkun, entitled “The Myths of Innovation.”
Scott was a member of the Microsoft team which developed the Internet Explorer browser during the mid-to-late 90s, and his book is a blend of the history of innovation (with a strong emphasis on recent technological innovations), as [...]
Quantum Innovation - Some Foundational Thoughts
The term innovation is itself subject to multiple interpretations. My own use of the term is that innovation is applied creativity (a.k.a. “invention”) which provides value to a customer.
Quantum Leaders views the modern company in a manner akin to that of the quantum physicist, who considers light as having the properties of both a particle [...]
The Role of Product Management vs. Product Marketing
Art Petty, in his blog “Art Petty on Management” recently wrote on the importance of the product management function in determining overall organizational performance.
I urge you to jump over there and read his excellent post, as it touches on a number of subjects that align with our own thinking here at Quantum Leaders, particularly the [...]
What is Innovation?
In the old days, we would normally begin to answer this question by consulting our dictionary - nowadays, we have all the resources of the net available to us, one of the more useful ones being wikipedias, a collaborative (“open source”) approach to encyclopedias.
The wikipedia on innovation lists a number of definitions (derived from various [...]
The Blogger’s Way
The preparations surrounding the launch of this Quantum Leaders’ blog within the context of our website redesign has prodded me to explore the reasons why we write, especially in the form of a blog, which can be viewed as a synthesis of the concept of a personal journal with that of a publication (”public” being [...]
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