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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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