Thoughts on “How Generalists Triumph in A Specialized World”

There are some key points in the book, “Range, How Generalists Triumph in A Specialized World” by David Epstein, that really caught my eye. Many are applicable to the way innovation is managed. First was “to use a common metaphor, premodern people miss the forest for the trees; modern people miss the trees [...]

2023-04-17T13:23:02-07:00

Using Intellectual Assets as an Integration Vehicle

A Simple Way To Visualize Your Company’s Intellectual Assets Tasks Related to Strategies and Management of a Company’s Intellectual Assets Another area requiring integrated strategic planning is that with respect to the corporation’s intellectual assets. The "A Simple Way To Visualize Your Company’s Intellectual Assets” figure shows the strategic ways in which the [...]

2020-12-24T11:56:46-08:00

Integrated Technology Program and Project Plans

Program and Project roadmaps are constructed so that both the optimal as well as competing efforts can be seen. It’s important however to superimpose on these roadmaps integrated view that looks at other elements as shown in the “Integrated Road-maps” figure. (Note: figure repeated). Integrated Road-maps In addition to these elements showing an [...]

2021-01-30T11:04:40-08:00

Integrated Strategies Overview

Stampedes Why have Integrated Strategies between various functional groups of a company? The “Stampedes” figure says it all. So given the need, Integrated strategies and road-maps are often appropriately found in CTO's written objectives. As a quick overview of how integrated strategies are derived the following overview of the process is provided. The [...]

2021-01-30T11:02:00-08:00
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