In Chapter 5 of the Corporate Explorer, Binns, Tushman and OâReilly share how a Corporate Explorer created a new business inside the consulting and accounting firm Deloitte.
His new unit, Deloitte Pixel, uses the âwisdom of crowdsâ to solve complex management problems. Ice are joined by Balaji Bondili.
Businesses throw Hail Marys when encountering a crisis, such as declining sales or disruptive innovation, or technology suddenly upends their business plan. Equally, leaders throw Hail Marys to meet analyst expectations when they have been coasting in the game for a long time. In sports, there is a thin line between arrogance and confidence, and business organisations often fall into the success trap.
In part 2 of our Tushman and O’Reilly series, Charles O’Reilly III explores the importance of cultural alignment in encouraging change. We focus on the cases of DaVita, Microsoft and AGC.
In today’s business world of flux, explore units are agile, decentralised, experimental cultures, loose work processes, strong entrepreneurial and technical competencies, and relatively young and neurodiverse employees. In contrast to the exploit units, these small entrepreneurial units are inefficient, rarely profitable, and have no established histories. They often deliberately violate the norms valued in older parts of the organization.
Because the explore units are wildly different from the exploit incumbent, explorers are often undermined by the parent company, whose short-term needs override exploration. While the exploit teams win in the short term, they sink the company in the long.
For Part 1 of our series on Tushman and O’Reilly, we welcome the author of the 1997 classic: âWinning Through Innovation: A Practical Guide to Leading Organisational Change and Renewalâ, Professor Michael Tushman.
Kim Bryce Clark is with us to celebrate the life and theories of his friend Clayton Christensen and, indeed, share some of his theories.
Itâs a pleasure to welcome the co-author of The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty, Efosa Ojomo
It is a pleasure to welcome a great friend of Clay Christensen, yet another soul deeply touched by the man, the author of âStall pointsâ and author of the 2014 paper, The Capitalistâs Dilemma, Derek van Bever.
Clayton Christensen mentored Bob Moesta, and they became fast friends. Bob was one of the principal architects of the Jobs To Be Done theory. He expands on the theory and shares his respect for his friend Clay.
Todayâs book is a book about progress.â¨Yes, itâs a book about innovationâand how to get better at it.
But at its core, this book is about the struggles we all face to make progress in our lives.â¨If youâre like many entrepreneurs and managers, the word âprogressâ might not spring to mind when youâre trying to innovate.