Monday, September 17, 2012

Invincible Enterprise

Discussed all day with Greg Yezersky on creating corporate innovation training.  One version of the workshop is called "invincible enterprise".  What an intriguing name! A quick summary of my ideas of the traits of an invincible enterprise are -

A. disciplined workflow,
B. consistent innovation,
C. cultivation of internal leaders.  

Item A will grantee the quality of the product today, B will assure the viability of entreprise tomorrow, C will make sure the next leaders are ready.

The entreprises has the ABC will be invincible, those don't, will parish sooner or later. Among the big companies, HP has A and B but does not have C, Kodak has A and C but not B, Apple and IBM probably have all.  Google, Facebook, CISCO are too early to call.

If we look at countries as entreprises, it is interesting to compare USA, China, Japan, Germany, Sigarpore, Taiwan.  All score differently on the ABC.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

There are very true factors of success.
I have hard time to think throught some questions about A and B recently.
I have small group (10 engineers) for developing now. I have hard to inspire engineers to be more reactive (B) for making progress, and ask them to perform dicipline for avoiding mistake. Somehow, I realize some confliction between creativeness and dicipline.
Training and perfoming as model are only I can think of.
Any other suggestion?