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10-31-08:  On 3 November, I'll be joining Harvard Business Publishing as a Senior Director in their Corporate Learning Division.  You can see more about what we do on the website:  http://ww3.harvardbusiness.org/corporate/. 

As for Biz-Architect.com, I'll keep this website up for a while in any event, although IBA won't be doing any business.

Drop me a line with questions or comments  ... eric.mankin at google.

10-11-07: I've been meaning to provide a coda to this listing for several months ...  These updates stopped publication in mid-2007.  The reason: I ran out of time to write them, as my other activities picked up.  A number of people were constant readers, and have let me know how much they miss them.  I miss writing them as well, and hope that I can resume at some point in the future, when I have more time to do them.

For those who want more current information, let me recommend Michael Schrage's blog that he writes for MIT's Technology Review.  The folks at the consulting firm Innosight also publish a number of pieces on timely topics.   Listed below are the set of updates from 2003 to 2007.  These have been written mostly by me, although there are occasional guest updates from others.

Eric

 

2007

  1. Service Innovations Hits and Misses 2006 8 Jan 07

  2. The Chevy Volt 15 Jan 07

  3. Netflix, Blockbuster, and VOD 22 Jan 07

  4. Measuring Innovation Performance and comments 29 Jan 07

  5. McDonald's Rising 12 Feb 07 and prior work from May 03

  6. Microinsurance 26 Feb 07

  7. Guest Update: Water Lilies and Innovation 13 March 07

 

      

 

2006

 

  1. Service Innovations hits and misses 2005 (and comments) 9 Jan 06

  2. Brazil's success with Ethanol (and comments) 16 Jan 06

  3. Ethanol in the USA (and comments) 23 Jan 06

  4. R&D is Dis-integrating (and comments) 30 Jan 06

  5. Aibo and Roomba (and comments) 6 Feb 06

  6. Pfizer, Exubera, and Irrational Exuberance 13 Feb 06

  7. Product Innovations to Watch 2006 6 March 06

  8. Service Innovations to Watch 2006 13 March 06

  9. Wal-Mart's New Products (and comments) 20 March 06

  10. Game Wars 2006 (and 7) (and comments) 27 March 06

  11. Innovation Governance (and comments) 10 April 06

  12. Domains of Innovation - Guest Update by Tom Davenport 17 April 06

  13. Foxes and Rabbits (and comments) 24 April 06

  14. BHAGs for Innovators (and comments) 1 May 06

  15. Turning Down American Idol (and comments) 8 May 06

  16. Sony, Blu-Ray, and S-Curves 22 May 06

  17. Growth -- Top down and Bottom Up 30 May 06

  18. Chief Growth Officers 5 June 06

  19. Discount Healthcare (and comments)  12 June 06

  20. R&D Architectures 19 June 06

  21. The Sad Story of a Missed Breakthrough (and comments) 26 June 06

  22. A happy ending to the sad story? (and comments) 10 July 06

  23. Innovation Respect (and comments) 17 July 06

  24. Hearty Hybrids 24 July 06

  25. Law Firm Innovation? (and comments) 31 July 06

  26. Prospects for Legal Innovation 7 Aug 06

  27. Working the Bedouin Way  14 Aug 06

  28. Kodak's Printing Business 11 Sep 06

  29. Supermarket Innovation 18 Sep 06

  30. Gamewars, Act Wii 25 Sep 06

  31. Innovation Tools and Trends 2 Oct 06

  32. Where's Marketing 9 Oct 06

  33. The Netflix Prize (and comments) 16 Oct 06

  34. Effective Innovation Tools 23 Oct 06

  35. China and Innovation 30 Oct 06

  36. Everything Old is New Again 7 Nov 06

  37. Line and Staff 13 Nov 06

  38. Catastrophic Innovation at Airbus 20 Nov 06

  39. Internet Groceries 2.0 4 Dec 06

  40. Pfizer's Silver Lining 11 Dec 06

  41. Product Hits and Misses 06 18 Dec 06

 

 

 

2005

  1. Browser Wars, Round 2 - Mozilla Firefox 10 Jan 05  

  2. Lexus vs. Saturn 17 Jan 05

  3. Forgettable Consumer Products 24 Jan 05

  4. Memorable Consumer Products 31 Jan 05

  5. TiVo's Last Gasp 7 Feb 05

  6. Skype and Vonage 14 Feb 05

  7. Innovations to Watch 2005 7 March 05

  8. Service innovations to watch 2005 14 March 05

  9. A missed prediction 21 March 05 (missed responses)

  10. Outsourcing Innovation 28 March 05

  11. High-Tech Toilets 4 April 05

  12. High-Tech Basketballs 11 April 05

  13. Paying for Creativity 18 April 05

  14. Selling Innovation Insight 2 May 05

  15. Nuclear Renaissance 9 May 05

  16. Nielsen's Perfect Storm 16 May 05

  17. Feature Proliferation 23 May 05

  18. Serial Entrepreneurs at the Movies 6 June 05

  19. Nolan Bushnell's 24th Startup 13 June 05

  20. Competing with Google 20 June 05

  21. Broadband Future 5 July 05

  22. Innovating in Red and Blue Oceans 11 July 05

  23. Renault's 6000 dollar Sedan 18 July 05

  24. Optimizing Diversity 25 July 05 (and comments)

  25. Bottom-up Innovation at Best-Buy 8 Aug 05

  26. Top-down Innovation at GE 15 Aug 05 (and comments)

  27. Customers Crossing the Chasm 29 Aug 05

  28. ICE and the Chasm 5 Sep 05 (and comments)

  29. Forced to Change 12 Sep 05 (and comments)

  30. The Right Time for E-85 19 Sep 05 (and comments)

  31. Skype and eBay 26 Sep 05

  32. Apple's Nano 3 Oct 05

  33. Electric Vehicles and Early Adopters 10 Oct 05

  34. Electric Vehicles Crossing the Chasm 17 Oct 05 (and comments)

  35. Photo Shops Adapt 24 Oct 05

  36. Kodak's Missed Moments 31 Oct 05

  37. Apple and Dell 7 Nov 05

  38. Limits to Growth 21 Nov 05

  39. Public Prototyping 28 Nov 05

  40. Cargill, Dow, and Green Innovation 5 Dec 05 (and comments)

  41. Missing Innovation in Chevy's Impala 12 Dec 05 (and comments)

  42. 2005 Product Hits and Misses 19 Dec 05

 

 

 

 

2004

1.      Class in mass -- new packaged goods 2003 12 jan 04

2.      Growing Pineapples Faster 19 Jan 04

3.      Does Gillette have a winner 26 jan 04

4.      Market Breakers 2 feb 04

5.      Succeeding at a Premium 9 feb 04

6.      Innovations to Watch - Product – 2004

7.      Innovations to Watch - Service – 2004

8.      The Pharma series:

        A. Depressing Innovation in Pharmaceuticals 15 March 04

        B. Pharma is dis-integrating 22 march 04

        C. Modular Biotech 29 March04

9.      Cold Fusion 5 April 04

10.  Hit Song Science 12 April 04

11. Pioneering a Category 3 May 04

12. Netflix vs. Video-on-Demand 10 May 04

13. Smart Mobs and Big Games 17 May 04

14. Gameboy Wars 24 May 04

15. Sony PSP - Prototypes 31 May 04

16. Is Google's Gmail a winner? 7 June 04

17. Mistaking yourself for the market 14 June 04

18. Nokia's Smart Phones 20 June 04

19. Will your new product be a winner?  19 July 04

20. Breakthroughs at the Drive-through 26 July 04

21. easyHotel 2 August 04

22. Fung Wah and easyBus 9 August 04

23. Predicting demand for fast food 30 August 04

24. Inventing the Danger hiptop 7 September 04

25. Netflix: Tryin' to get older 14 September 04

26. Digital photography's better mousetrap 21 September 04

27. Gameboy Wars Heat Up 27 September 04

28. The Innovation Imperative in Consumer Products 4 October 04

29. Clusty and Google 11 October 04

30. Nonesuch and Blue Note  18 October 04

31. Metro's 20 Minute Newspaper  25 October 04

32. Up and down (and up?) with Flumist and Netflix 1 November 04

33. Free trade's winners and losers 8 November 04

34. New products for old people 15 November 04

35. Electric Utility Innovation 22 November 04

36. Product Innovation Hits and Misses 6 December 04

37. Service Innovation Hits and Misses 13 December 04

 

 2003 - Mostly not on site

(although check out "Feeding the Beast," one of my favorites)

Drop me a note if you want a copy of any of these

  1. Prof Service prognosis 6 January 03

  2. Advertising Adapts 10 Jan 03

  3. Mobile Identification Technologies  20 Jan 03

  4. Free Trial and Lockin - a tale of two websites 27 Jan 03

  5. Knowledge work's rapid commodification 3 Feb 03

  6. Why bad projects are so hard to kill 10 Feb 03

  7. Isabelle Royer response on why bad projects are so hard to kill 17 Feb 03

  8. A better lightbulb 24 Feb 03

  9. Why Can't McDonald's Change 3 March 03

  10. Tablet PCs Microsoft and the Soap Star Effect 10 March 03

  11. Innovations to watch 2003 17 March 03

  12. Do you practice open innovation? 31 March 03

  13. What's behind Samsung's profitable growth? 5 may 03

  14. Does Information Technology matter anymore 7 may 03 (thanks to Joshua Michaels for the request -- it's now available to all).

  15. Media Lab 19 may 03

  16. Evolving your intuition 26 may 03

  17. Evolving intuition case ex 2 june 03

  18. Music Industry Attempts Suicide 5 June 03

  19. ING direct 7 July 03

  20. Failure Modes 12 July 03

  21. Optimistic realists 21 July 03

  22. Motorola 28 July 03

  23. Terrorizing innovation 4 aug 03

  24. Meyer and queen bmw 11 aug 03

  25. Will iBOT make it 2 sep 03

  26. Ibot Segway romantic products 05 sep 03

  27. Will your new product be a winner 15 sep 03

  28. Romantic vs systematic breakthrough announcements 28 sep 03

  29. Success rate of innovation 13 oct 03

  30. Toyota innovation 20 Oct 03

  31. Lead users 27 oct 03

  32. Electronic Pizza 3 Nov 03

  33. Feeding the beast  10 nov 03

  34. Errors by design 17 nov

  35. FluMist failure 24 nov 03

  36. Ipod 3 december 03

  37. 2003 Innovations hits and misses – product – 15 Dec 03

 

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