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Most of the time, when you mention ‘the legal department’ to a product team doing lean startup experiments you feel the mood in the room

Unlike startups who are usually just starting out in business, large companies tend to have trading histories and reputations to protect. Part of this reputational

Innovation labs are all the rage these days. Most companies have one, are thinking about creating one or have had employees pushing management to start

Prescribing what the ecosystem needs not what it wants There are currently over 6,000 drugs approved by the FDA in the United States. You can

Photographer: Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg When it comes to R&D spending, corporate leaders often want to know what others are doing. How much are other companies in

It is undeniable that the world around us is changing. Technology and software have transformed large parts of business; and continues to do so in

The Praxis Wheel. Art by Joshua Kahn Russell Over the last few years I have been traveling the world advising large companies on how to

The paradox of having no assets and it’s implication in corporate innovation strategy It is still paradoxically how, having less (or no) financial assets at

Over the last three years I have part of a great team working to bring lean innovation principles into Pearson, the world’s largest global education

This article is the final draft of an earlier draft that I published to test out a unified framework combining McKinsey’s three horizons and Christensen

Most senior executives can relate. It usually starts with some startup types within the company telling them scary stories about how startups are coming to eat

In my previous post, I wrote about the false choices that innovators face. These choices seem to present teams with the option of using business plans

Innovation is hard work. Creating great products that succeed on the market is a really difficult endeavor. You can ask any startup founder. But my

The Fallacy of Planning (Part Three) This is the third and final post in a series posts about the limitations of using business planning to

This is a follow-up on my last post on business plans which argued that most large companies have processes designed to deny investment in new product ideas,

Steve Blank likes to joke that the two groups of people that require five year plans are Venture Capitalists and the Soviet Union. I would

In a previous post on this topic, I argued that large companies are not startups, nor should they strive to be. My argument was based

Much has been written about the changing landscape in the business of education. Christensen’s Disrupting Class is a great book, so is Kevin Carey’s The End of College:

Nor should they strive to be. In fact, most startups want to become successful companies. It might be cool to be a founder, but very