Overcoming Customer Resistance to Innovation, by Paul Sloane
Sometimes the biggest resistance to innovation comes from the person who should benefit most from it – the customer. Customers can be very conservative. When you come along with an…
Sometimes the biggest resistance to innovation comes from the person who should benefit most from it – the customer. Customers can be very conservative. When you come along with an…
Distributing Experiences The digital media business is no longer simply about buying ad space. It’s a discipline focused on distributing experiences—through social networks, videos, widgets and applications, branded content, and,…
Having bought up $1.9 trillion of companies from 2005 to 2007, yet for sellers, the doors are barred. The mergers-and-acquisition markets have shut, as potential buyers wait for asset prices…
Retail stores began the march toward e-commerce and digital transactions in the late 1990s. By 2008 Fast Company reported that "Retail is moving toward capital-E environments," explains REI President and…
It could be argued that the pharmaceutical and medical products industry—with its high-value, high-regulation product lines—could have the most at stake for achieving operational excellence. Regulatory requirements have risen for…
With Yahoo shares down nearly 50%, Microsoft decided to prove the rumors true and make an unsolicited offer for Yahoo. The incredible $45 billion offer for Yahoo was designed to…
I met Senator John McCain last May at the Wall Street Journal's "All Things Digital 'D' Conference." He was surrounded by some of Silicon Valley's best and brightest including Cisco's…
Palm Desert - Enterprise scheduling company Time Trade demoed their new application TimeDriver today at Chris Shipley's DEMO 08 conference. TimeDriver is a new kind of sales tool that lets…
Today in the Wall Street Journal: "When the Federal Reserve surprised markets with a 0.75 percentage-point cut in the federal-funds target Tuesday morning, the thinking was that concerns about a…
Today's Wall Street Journal video summarizes the downward reaction AND the market rally after the adjustment. Look to healthcare and tech stocks to be the least affected overall by the…
I recently read and enjoyed Paul Sloane’s latest book, The Innovative Leader. Here are a list of just some of the gems from this book. It's available at Amazon.com (click…