Rita Gunther McGrath on the End of Competitive Advantage:
Great insight on competitive advantage, flexibility, and innovation.
Article, but a nice video of Rita as well.
Book:
McGrath’s most recent book, The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013)
Building a Business Plan: The basic components – YouTube: “ Here’s the basics about a business plan by yours truly, Dr. Elmer Hall, President of Strategic Business Planning Company. We help develop the plans that every business needs(tm). “ All, right. It doesn’t have direct application to Sustainability… Except that we aim to encourage sustainable businesses in all the spellings of the word “sustainable”. Businesses do need to be profitable. Look at the sustainable growth rate…
In the process of creating the special acknowledgement for all the innovation throughout history that resulted in AI, GenAI more specifically… I was temped to let my fav GenAIs work on the case. WoW! They were so good that I included two versions in my latest book on Rapid Strategic Planning with Regenerative AI. The one that didn’t work, because it skipped over the 1 paragraph in the instructions was the one from MS Copilot….
Should Monsanto own patent rights on the elements of life? – Los Angeles Times: Few people realize how patent intensive the food industry has become. The top 10 seed companies account for 2/3 of all seeds sold. A huge % of the seed sold are patented. Wow! “Over an 11-year period, the cost per acre of planting soybeans has risen a dramatic 325%.” Ouch!… BUT if the yield is improved, then the added cost to…
Vringo Requests Court to Increase Royalty Rate to Be Paid by Google, AOL | Fox Business: “Vringo Requests Court to Increase Royalty “ Ouch. The royalty rates on AdWords by Google & ads by AOL could really get expensive. Google has kept a competitive advantage because of their bid-to-ad technology. That’s where they have historically made most of their money. The computation formula would be based on 20.9% of Googles adword revenue as the base….
Apple-Samsung Case Muddies Future of Innovation – NYTimes.com: Oh boy, this is gonna get ugly. Especially if you are in the habit of ripping off other companies technology. Samsung, just got smacked down hard. A $1B verdict is just the beginning. Apple will of course, try to get treble damages for “willful” infringement of Apple’s technology. But the $1B is only the beginning. On September 20, the hearing (resumes) related to an injunction of the…
A closer look at the PTAB’s new post-issuance review procedures – Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) – Maximising IP Value for Business: Once a patent has been issued, there are Big, BIG changes as to the review process. Here is the most comprehensive take on these changes you will find anywhere. It is rather readable. It is rather detailed. And it is a critical-to-know follow on to anyone involved in the patent pipeline. Now the question,…
