Category Archives: The Innovation Architect

It’s now official: Our book “The Innovation Architect” will be published by Harvard Business Review Press. We recently signed the book deal and are now busy finalizing the manuscript, with a tentative publication date in the spring. Kudos to the many people who helped us get here – not least Erich Joachimsthaler, Henrik Werdelin, Astrid Sandoval and in particular Esmond Harmsworth, our brilliant agent!

If you want to be notified when the book is available, go to our Innovation Architect website and leave your email.

IESE Publishing produced a short promo video where we present our case study on pfizerWorks, the prizewinning initiative created by Jordan Cohen of Pfizer.

Watch the video on IESE’s website.

Critical Eye published our article on six popular mistakes leaders commit when trying to make innovation happen:

1. Not knowing where you want to go
2. Thinking communication is enough
3. Chasing free lunches only
4. Jumping into action
5. Thinking ‘fear of change’ is the problem
6. Treating innovation as a one-man, one-idea show

Read the article (PDF)

My quotable thought for the day:

Any idiot can learn from a wise man, but it takes a wise man to learn from an idiot. Learning the latter is useful, because while wise men are rare, you will never run out of idiots.

Our pfizerWorks case study with Jordan Cohen is featured on Gary Hamel’s new website for management innovators – an interesting initiative called MIX which seeks to create a community around the issues of Management Innovation. Recently launched, still in alpha version but looks promising.

Here is the link to the pfizerWorks feature on MIX.