Andy Rappaport posted an article to the HBR debate on U.S. competitiveness: Outsourcing, the Culprit is Capitalism, not Wall Street My comment: Valuable comments. One of my primary criticisms of Wall Street in the past decade, and some of their largest clients, has been an enormous unproductive use of capital. While Alan Greenspan has earned… Read More
HBR Debate: Revamping DARPA
Professor David Patterson from UC Berkeley enters the HBR debate on U.S. competitiveness: Revamping DARPA is vital to Preserving the U.S. Lead in IT. My comment on the blog: David, I appreciate your frustration, having heard much the same from many. However, I would suggest that we have larger issues at work here than just… Read More
HBR debate continued
Steve Hardis contributed an interesting article in the Harvard debate (Is the U.S. killing its innovation machine) on U.S. competitiveness titled: Beware of Government Solutions for America’s High Tech Sector. My comment to the HBR blog is shared here as follows: While I can appreciate Steve’s commentary on the negative impact of government on innovation,… Read More
HBR- U.S. innovation continued
This is my post in a continuing debate on U.S. competitiveness and innovation found here at the Harvard blog. The current trajectory leads eventually to a much larger global crisis than we are still currently experiencing. The total liabilities will catch total net worth (should have been asset value) in the U.S. at some point… Read More
PWC on innovation
An exceptional article by PWC worth your time, particularly for large organizations: Getting beyond novelty How discipline and failure foster innovation By Christoper Wasden MM: Wasden spends quite a bit of time discussing the tension in the process of innovation, particularly the need for failure and how successful innovators quickly move beyond failures. I especially… Read More
MM: Is the U.S. Killing Its Innovation Machine?
However, innovation is a much different story — culture matters, but location matters not. We released our white paper ‘Unleash the Innovation Within’ almost a year ago, which became among the most popular in our history in a short period of time. We concluded a few years ago that a holistic approach was needed to address the many structural issues in the modern organization relating to innovation, which by the way also affect crises prevention, governance, information overload, and continual learning.
Perhaps the real question that should be asked is: why is it that the U.S. cannot adopt state-of-the-art systems that would improve innovation and reduce crises? Read More
