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From the Boardroom to the Battlefield — Only the Paranoid Survive

04 Tuesday Nov 2014

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Andy Grove, Crisis, Disruption, Four Basic Principles of Leadership, Hal Moore, Innovation, Only the Paranoid Survive, Transformation

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Andy Grove of Intel fame provides a fascinating read on the effects and potential advantages of technological disruption. Following is the preface to Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points that Challenge Every Company. Grove speaks to the importance of understanding inflection points and how great organizations exploit crises to advance their own objectives.

Grove’s lasting question to Management is timeless: what would you do differently if you replaced yourself tomorrow? Though dated (1996), the learning lessons remain relevant in developing an understanding of the impact of shifting boundaries and the importance of plotting a course through dark waters. As a leader, crucial to survival is an awareness to evolving market dynamics and seismic technological shifts. It permits a foundation from which to effectively react to conditions not of your making.

A corollary to Grove’s effort is Hal Moore’s Four Basic Principles of Leadership as an execution paradigm in reacting to disruptions and competitive forces. Though Colonel Moore was speaking to battlefield realities and his own experience in the Ia Drang Valley, its application to industry and business is complete.

As you consider what ails (and assails) your organization, consider the lessons of Grove and Moore. From the boardroom to the battlefield, learn to exploit the unexpected to your advantage.

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Innovation Drives Superior Profitability

27 Monday Oct 2014

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APQC, Business Transformation, Don Berwick, Escape Fire, Innovation, RO2I

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The Product Development Management Association (PDMA) is an organization devoted to enabling companies improve their innovation processes and profitability through best demonstrated practices. It’s been around for awhile now and good research exists on the site (www.pdma.org).

 

Strong Innovation Drives Superior Organizational Profitability
Primary among the findings of several large studies is that Market Research, i.e. focus groups, sales anecdotal evidence and VoC – proves critical to the success AND profitability of a launch. This actually speeds (rather than delays) innovation from concept through introduction to market. While lauding the rewards of adherence to process and controls, it also warns of rogue mentality as a drain to profitability and causing significant disruptions in development, integrity in design and cost containment efforts.

Consider the following finding from an APQC study in 2003 and corroborated in Improving New Product Development Performance and Practices, by Cooper and Kleinschmidt in the same year: Continue reading →

Good Design: The Role of Emotion in Innovation

20 Wednesday May 2009

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Don Norman, Emotion in Innovation, Emotional Levels of Design, Good Design, Innovation

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Rules of Good DesignThe Emotional Levels of Design
Don Norman proposes that design encompasses three levels of emotion that ameliorate the effects of product flaws engendering inspiration and product loyalty in spite of it – primarily through good design. Essentially, good design may more than compensate for marginal product performance (though superior performance typically surpasses good design of inferior products over time).

The first of the emotional levels, visceral, emphasizes things we subconsciously like or gravitate toward; colors, patterns or shapes. The second level, behavioral, also acting upon the subconscious, makes the user feel empowered through use of the product. The third level, reflective, creates the sense of visceral extension of the individual through use of the product. Good design ‘paralyzes’ aspects of the conscious mind in helping it suspend disbelief in focusing on the product’s emotional attributes rather than functionality (or lack thereof) whereas flawed design links the user to perceived negative attributes in observers where disbelief abounds (where emotion fails to attach). Continue reading →

Competitive Advantage: the OODA Loop in Agile Organizations

30 Thursday Apr 2009

Posted by Black Diamond Transformation in Agility, Innovation, Leadership, Simplicity, Transformation, Transparency

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Competitive Advantage, Innovation, John Boyd, OODA Loop

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Col. John Boyd

Origins of the OODA Loop
Colonel John Boyd, USAF, left a profound and lasting legacy in the field of Decision Science with the legacy of the OODA Loop or Boyd’s Decision Theory. Boyd observed that, during the Korean War, the United States maintained air supremacy with a victory to loss ratio of 10:1, i.e. one American plane lost for every 10 destroyed. Many within the Air Force opined that superior technology permitted this dominance, but Boyd suspected otherwise.

During the war, the technology of the Soviet MiG surpassed the flight capabilities of the American planes in three critical aspects – speed, operational ceiling height and turning. The advantage possessed by the Americans lay in two under-appreciated features – a canopy that permitted greater visibility than that of its rival and advanced hydraulics. The greater field of vision permitted USAF pilots to observe and orient on targets faster whereas the hydraulics delivered more immediate responsiveness from controls (the plane reacted more quickly to input from the pilot). American pilots realized through experience that quick, aggressive movements against enemy air combat tactics overcame the superiority of the MiG’s individual flight capabilities by forcing an incapacitating number of decisions in rapid succession upon the enemy combatant. Continue reading →

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