Sunday, December 3, 2006

Championship soccer For Jarrett (and others), I'm watching the UNC/Notre Dame women's college championship match at the Hilton in Dallas. Just saw a UNC player go down on a run in "the box." I'm not sure it was a trip since they were running side-by-side. What's the local reaction? (I donn't know the referee crew.) I have a really bad picture--may have to go down to the sports bar and convince them to change a TV from NFL to soccer. Think I'd have a chance? 1:21:24 PM    comment []

Can big companies innovate Amit commented on yesterday's blog posting on Yokogawa: You are probably right on Yokogawa as one of the most innovative company..but key is will they and others you mention sustain innovation due to their sizes? Size doesn't have to be a constraint for innovation, but large companies often have an inertia bred by success. Geoffrey Moore deals with this topic in his book, Dealing with Darwin. I discussed this in relation to Wonderware here. For a large company to be innovative, it must find a way to overcome that inertia of success and divert R&D money to new technologies that might have the impact of displacing the currently successful product. There are a couple of ways to approach innovation. Yokogawa, Wonderware and Invensys Process have developed new technologies internally. Honeywell Process Solutions is leveraging technologies developed in the greater Honeywell ecosystem. Rockwell has been buying companies (for example Sequencia and DataSweep). All are valid growth strategies. 1:03:59 PM    comment []