Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 25, 2017

The new innovating world we face in the 21st Century. Her opening insight is in the twenty-first century we are all requiring more reliance on social technologies that are designed to allow the different technologies to emerge and be allowed to integrate, due to the diversity and diffusion of knowledge. I liked this thinking.

Technical Review 80

Technical Review Project Technology System 80

Norbert Bol

MAY 22, 2016

The categories of how we adopt new ideas or innovations are according to the theory: innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards. As experience is scarce in this stage, an individual can only obtain it from those who they are closely linked with. This is defined as the externality effect. Norbert Bol.

Marketing 58

Marketing Resources System Technology 58

Norbert Bol

OCTOBER 9, 2016

During the last few weeks I have had interesting discussions about the question: “are we doing enough to create a sustainable future?” In writing this I remembered a quote by the humanist psychologist Carl Rogers : The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others. We are doing enough.

Case Study 40

Case Study Study Innovation Strategic Management 40

Norbert Bol

JUNE 12, 2016

How do we learn to innovate and become successful entrepreneurs? In the August 2016 edition of the Journal of Business Research there is an interesting article (Abecassis-Moedas, et al., 2016) that shows how top haute cuisine chefs innovate and are successful. Top haute cuisine chefs learn to innovate by vicarious learning.

Learning 40

Learning Innovation Strategy Strategy 40

Norbert Bol

JANUARY 31, 2016

Last week in Strategy Blogs we discussed the topic of innovation speed and how this positively relates to organizational performance. In the March 2016 edition of Environmental Science & Policy there is an article by Gorddard et al. 2016), who emphasizes that simply broadening the decision-making perspective is not enough.

Policies 40

Policies Innovation Strategy Strategy 40

Norbert Bol

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

One of the respondents added a wonderful comment in line with this thought: “we can never be overeducated in the fields of sustainability, innovation and entrepreneurship” On the other hand decision makers need to balance their educational efforts with all their other obligations. You can download the report here. Norbert Bol.

Entrepreneurship 40

Entrepreneurship Report Analysis Study 40

Norbert Bol

JUNE 19, 2016

Last week I wrote about how we can learn to innovate by learning from haute cuisine chefs. Besides learning from models I think it is also important (1) to asses who we are and (2) to make a good assessment of the organization where the innovation should take place. Time is only one of the factors that is needed for change.

Learning 40

Learning Change Innovation Strategic Management 40