by Tendayi Viki | Jan 8, 2018 | Uncategorised
Five years ago Kodak filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. This was not only an economic tragedy for one of the great companies of the last century, it was devastating for the city of Rochester, New York, where the company was based. Kodak was once a household...
by Tendayi Viki | Sep 4, 2017 | Uncategorised
Next month I will be speaking at the Intrapreneurship Conference in Stockholm. I will be giving a whiteboard session on innovation accounting. In preparation, I sat down with Hans Balmaekers to discuss how innovation accounting works in practice for companies. Hope...
by Tendayi Viki | Aug 10, 2017 | Uncategorised
A lot of commentary around innovation and disruption takes it as a given that startups own the future. Compared to corporate giants, startups are nimble and agile. Such a “startup culture” is necessary for the creation of breakthrough products and services. Recent...
by Tendayi Viki | Aug 2, 2017 | Uncategorised
It is undeniable that the world around us is changing. Technology and software have transformed large parts of business; and continues to do so in more and more dramatic ways. Corporate leadership would have to be in a special kind of denial to not see how these...
by Tendayi Viki | Jul 5, 2017 | Uncategorised
Bell Labs is historically one of the most productive R&D labs in history. A large number of the technologies we use today were invented there. Bell Labs scientists invented the facsimile machine, the first long-distance television transmission, the first binary...
by Tendayi Viki | Jul 3, 2017 | Uncategorised
At Leancamp Stuttgart, we had a number of interesting sessions. One session in particular focused on corporate accelerators as a means to help large enterprises develop innovative new products. A corporate accelerator would be similar to other accelerator programmes...
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