Monthly Archives: July 2013
Papers and referencing
I’ve been using the Mac version of a program called Papers2 (also available on Windows). I am slowly getting converted to the program, if you are looking for a better way to organise your academic reading I recommend you give it … Continue reading
Future of the UK automobile industry?
I am rarely this timely with my blog posts but was alerted to this announcement by my colleague Andrew Graves: The government and automotive industry are investing £500 million each over the next ten years in an Advanced Propulsion Centre … Continue reading
Christensen #3 – Building a Theory
In perhaps the most interesting (and certainly the most novel) lecture, Clay gave a meta-explanation of the Innovator’s Dilemma, using it to illustrate the process of building a theory.
Christensen #2 – Disruptive Innovation and the Panda’s Thumb
Much of this lecture came from ‘The Innovator’s Solution‘ – a well judged (and marketed) follow up to Christensen’s seminal ‘Innovator’s Dilemma‘ book. The phrase Panda’s Thumb, btw, comes from Stephen Jay Gould, a brilliant evolutionary biologist who used the … Continue reading
Christensen #1 – Disruptive Innovation and the economy
After recapping the theory of disruptive innovation, Clay turned his attention to the macroeconomic implications of this theory. Incidentally, if you haven’t heard the famous steel mill example, its a cracking good yarn (the better for being true). You can … Continue reading
Taking note of disruption
<a href=”https://twitter.com/stevecayzer” data-widget-id=”351722150291451908″>Tweets by @stevecayzer</a> <script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?’http’:’https’;if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+”://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,”script”,”twitter-wjs”);</script> When I was working for Hewlett Packard, I was largely involved in artificial intelligence research. I had little time for management theory, except when it affected me. That happened 3 times. The first … Continue reading
Steve Cayzer 