Successful innovations need innovation ecosystems
Stumble It!High Definition TVs should be a huge success yet so far they have been an unmitigated failure - a great example of the launch of a high tech product whose supporting ecosystem was not sufficiently mature.
Ron Adner, writing in Match Your Innovation Strategy to Your Innovation Ecosystem, (Harvard Business Review April 2006) argues that even if products are fully market-ready they will fail if the supporting ‘innovation ecosystem’ is not in place.
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The Organizational Zoo
I was introduced to an interesting book and web site, The Organizational Zoo, by Arthur Shelley which offers humorous observations of the characteristics and behaviours of the other creatures in your "organizational Zoo".
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