Here is the book I spoke about in class. “The Lean Startup,” By Eric Ries.
He sees a startup process (anything new inside a big firm or a new firm) as a PROCESS, where there are bad and good processes. That is exactly what we have been discussing in class. Several of his observations are those we discussed in class, so I wouldn’t say he breaks new ground with this book but he puts things together nicely. Morten
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Here is a great blog on Apple on the point that innovation at Apple is not only about Jobs but also a lot about the culture and processes set up to innovate.
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/08/for_the_second_time_steve.html
Great quote:
“The last 15 years have been all about establishing an internal culture for innovation and a set of norms of behavior and expectations. While the culture came from the drive of Steve Jobs, it is a reasonable expectation that he infused it into the organization itself.”
In general, this is a great website for blogs about management for this course–Harvard Business Review’s blog page;
http://hbr.org/
Morten