What’s The Difference Between A Methodology And A Terrorist

Rita McGrath Thought Sparks

What’s The Difference Between A Methodology And A Terrorist?

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You can negotiate with a terrorist!

Ivar Jacobson was referring to the tendency for inventors of tools and methods to want to keep them proprietary. What this creates is confusion as similar tools doing similar things compete with one another. This comment was made during Day 2 of the World Agility Forum, when Jacobson was announcing a new initiative to make frameworks readily available.

What he was getting at is the insistence that many have that their methodology is the One Best Way, when in fact there are many ways of getting to a final destination – it doesn’t all have to be one.

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If you think innovation is risky, try stagnation!

This comment from my colleague Darrell Rigby (of Bain) captures the essence of what he and GE’s Kevin Nolan discussed with respect to the resurgence of GE Appliances (under the ownership of the Chinese innovator Haier), using innovation to completely rethink how the brand is built.

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Reinventing capitalism for a digital age

I’ve been a huge fan of Carlota Perez’s work for ages – and I’m not alone. Her book “Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages” has just been named one of the books of the century by Foreign Affairs.

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Hypotheses Development

Meanwhile, at Valize We took advantage of the whole team’s being in Lisbon to get better organized about what we’re offering. In the next six months or so, expect to see big progress on our software for educators and smaller firms, the graduation of our second cohort of on-line learners and a bunch more tools, such as our on-line team effectiveness diagnostic.

And if you are new to our learning modules, consider taking the free preview course.

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The End

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