Anyone familiar with the LEGO Serious Play program? It looks interesting, but it'd be useful to have a comparison between this and other innovation-inspiring corporate workshop formats that are available out there.
http://www.lego.com/en-us/seriousplay
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LEGO Americana Roadshow: Building Across America I just checked out this traveling exhibition from LEGO and was quite impressed. The scale ... -
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When we let politics trump science, people are needlessly put in harm's way. http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/self-censoring-fears...
Another great source is my former McKinsey Toronto colleague Shona Brown, who wrote the most highly cited literature review of the ways companies innovate in product with her PhD supervisor Kathleen Eisenhardt http://www.jstor.org/stable/258850?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents She later implemented these as SVP Business Operations Google during their first decade of growth, and was fairly effective in scaling them from their original Search product
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Our other former McK Toronto colleague Patrick Pichette also has lots of good material up on financing innovation and scaling operations, which he's done as CFO Google (he joined 2001 as EVP Planning and Performance Management)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4br60q_wCyg
http://fortune.com/video/2015/03/11/can-google-still-be-a-startup/
http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/corporate_finance/googles_cfo_on_growth_capital_structure_and_leadership
Worth noting incidentally that all this Lego innovation revival after 82 years of life happened under another ex-McK guy, CEO Jorgen Vig Knudstorp. McK has a great growth practice, and a lot of the ideas I've seen implemented by Patrick and Jorgen seem related to that http://www.mckinsey.com/features/growth. I don't know him personally but he is pretty awesome, as the song goes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP7fQ7WmGpw
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/b/5ade11ae-1c79-4fbc-847a-156c3161e771
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xd3zdc_jorgen-vig-knudstorp-lego-ceo-man-w_webcam
Yep, I've cited Brown & Eisenhardt (1995) in several of my earlier papers. Thanks for all those suggestions.
ReplyDeleteCraig Froehle yep, it was a shock citing Shona in my own PhD research (1999-2001) on product innovation in ARM's microprocessor ecosystem, and realizing I'd actually worked with her in Toronto. She's got lots more material up
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