The folks at Apple have a mantra: "Plus it!" This is the idea that you don't settle for "good enough", but that you keep finding...

Standardization affects markets in a variety of ways: 1. They generate more value for users. 2. They increase interoperability of products. 3. They...

In aiming for innovation, surround yourself with those that think differently than you. Doing so will allow you more perspectives than what you would...

The keys to winning a standardization battle are the ownership of assets; specifically, the installed base, the intellectual property rights, superior...

As Steve Loranger has said, "You can't polish a cannonball." What he means is that incremental improvements on an existing approach...

In 1960, a professor at the Harvard Business School named Ted Levitt published an article in the Harvard Business Review entitled "Marketing...

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

Think about innovation as an easter egg hunt. Opportunities are more likely to lie outside the boundaries of where others typically explore, because...

One way to build a business is to find a market which is divided into categories in which certain feature subsets are unavailable, and to offer that...

The idea that you can institutionalize the creation of entrepreneurial ventures is absolute bunk. (Venture Capitalist Bill Unger about incubators)