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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Case Studies: Alibaba Group
Alibaba Group grew from a simple online trading platform designed to connect small business manufacturer with buyers, and is now the biggest e-commerce company in China. It has dominant China’s B2B, B2C online market since 2003. Alibaba Group focused on … Continue reading
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Case Study: 3M New Product Development
Year: 1996-97 Goal: The New Product Development team for the surgical-medical markets division had to come up successful product ideas and effective positioning. Success was crucial because the fate of the entire division depended on it. Result: Using a new … Continue reading
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Case Study: Eli Lilly
Year: 2005 Goal: Eli Lilly is about to invest in an Australian biotech company (called Protagonist) trying to introduce a very systematic method into the drug discovery business through HTS. They had to find a VC company which could provide … Continue reading
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Case Study: Intel MXP Processor
Year: 2002 Goal: To create a new type of media processor that is able to provide high efficiencies in processing jobs, while maintaining a reprogrammable architecture that allows for cost reductions for Intel’s customers when designing new products that utilize … Continue reading
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Case Study: Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid AI Maktoum has converted Dubai from a sleepy little coastal village into a world-class city, famous for its ambition, drive, and economic promise. He is the founder, part-owner, and visionary behind companies such as Emirates Airlines, … Continue reading
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Case Study: Extracting Value from Corporate Venturing
Leaders usually see venturing as sources of organic growth and vitally important engines of renewal. However there is always a high risk involved with this and they do not produce the intended result (always). So, the new venture cycle though … Continue reading
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Summary of book “Innovate with Influence” by Steve Todd
The author starts of the book speaking about the personal brand that individuals who want to work, create business or want to choose any professional career has to create just so to differentiate themselves from the crowd and create a … Continue reading
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Grow from Within: Mastering Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation By: Robert Wolcott & Michael Lippitz
In today’s rapidity growing globalized marketplace, competition can come from unexpected places. In order for companies to remain competitive in this marketplace, they must create internal entrepreneurial capabilities. “Enabling the entrepreneurial capabilities of a company’s people is the most powerful … Continue reading
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Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance – Louis Gerstner Jr.
Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? talks about IBM’s extraordinary turnaround led by Louis Gerstner, the chairman and CEO of IBM from 1993 to 2002. Since Gerstner wrote this book himself, it gives the reader a more personal glimpse into his … Continue reading
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“Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance” By: Louis Gerstner Jr.
In 1993 the IBM company was in shambles. IBM was bleeding money dues to there insular corporate culture and just them falling prey to small companies that would make similar products that were both better, fast, and cost far less … Continue reading
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