Culture also eats innovation for breakfast!

Commodity Eats Innovation for Breakfast: A Model for Differentiating Feature Realization

Once supporting the electrical and mechanical functionality, software today became the main competitive advantage in products. However, in the companies that we study, the way in which software features are developed still reflects the traditional ‘requirements over the wall’ approach. As a consequence, individual departments prioritize what they believe is the most important and are unable to ...

Good Eats

If one believes that vegetarianism is morally obligatory, there are numerous ways to argue for that conclusion. In this paper, classic utilitarian and rights-based attempts to ground this obligation are considered, as well as Cora Diamond’s reframing of the debate in terms of the proper way to view other animals. After discussion of these three ways to ground the obligation and their problems, ...

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Creating a Culture for Unrelenting Innovation

Unrelenting innovation is the most enduring source of growth, profit, and competitive advantage for firms today. Market leaders are in the best position to innovate because of their deep pockets, rich talent, and intimate knowledge of the market. Yet, throughout history major companies have stumbled, declined sharply, or gone bankrupt due to a failure to innovate. Examples in only the last few ...

Military Innovation and Military Culture

This article examines the significance of culture as a moderator of innovation, and criticizes monolithic accounts of military resistance to innovation. It then describes a dimension of military culture focused on the concept of the ideal combatant, and how that concept relates to innovation. Military culture can be improved by: (1) engineering the competitive context for innovation, and (2) cr...