Create Marketplace Disruption: How to Stay Ahead of the Competition by Adam Hartung: It’s no secret that few companies survive major changes to their markets, and fewer figure out how to make change happen and then ride that change to excel in a new form. This book helps you figure out when making a disruptive change can work in your favor.

NetworkWorld’s Top tech books for the new year

Galen Gruman | December 29, 2009

Even Mighty Mad Murdoch will lose out to Google

Marcus Timson | December 10, 2009

“Rupert Murdoch to remove News Corp’s content from Google in months.” This is the London Telegraph headline. claiming that Google gets a ‘free ride’ on the newspaper content, the News Corp. Chairman claims he can block Google from referring his content — and that the conclusion will be bad for Google because it will hurt the search engine’s ability to add value.

Innovation at the Core and beyond the core

Peter Vander Auwera | November 21, 2009

The fundamental premise of this blog post is that organizations need a two-speed strategy for innovation. One for innovation in the core, which is more about creating efficiencies in the core. And one for innovation beyond the core, where you basically look for the next xxx Million EUR/USD new business stream.

Sopheon’s inKNOWvations Newsletter

November 17, 2009

This monthly e-newsletter provides you with the latest information on business trends, benchmark data, events, and other resources to help you improve your organization’s return on its investments in product innovation.

Consumer Goods Technology Magazine

Alliston Ackerman | November 2009

Special Report: Marketplace Disruption — a sneak peak inside author Adam Hartung’s book. Page 11.

Chicago Marrow

November 18, 2009

Adam Hartung writes about value creating CEO ’ Steve Jobs, innovation and Apple.

Game-Changer: Must read innovation stories of the week

Jorge Barba | November 14, 2009

Today’s business leaders and organizations are not trained to be innovative argues Adam Hartung, they’re trained to be effective and efficient and that’s why there’s a high failure rate of innovation initiatives.

Alltop: Why pursuing innovation fails

Guy Kawasaki | November 10, 2009

Adam Hartung provided a great analysis of why the pursuit of innovation usually fails inside established companies. If you work for a company that has made innovation a priority, I’m sure you can relate to thoughts like these.

Psychology Today: The Myth of Management Efficiency

Ray Williams | October 18, 2009

In a great article by Adam Hartung in Forbes, titled The Myth of Efficiency, he outlines how leaders have mistakenly used efficiency to drive business results, often with disastrous results.

Health Care We Want to Pay For

David Morf | October 1, 2009

This post responds to a question posed by Adam Hartung of the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. He asked, “Shouldn’t we involve marketplace input to health care reform?” My reply — “We want health care we want to pay for.”

Anticipation des conséquences : livre Create Marketplace Disruption — Adam Hartung

September 30, 2009

Le livre Create Marketplace Disruption de Adam Hartung est remarquable en ce qu'il identifie dans une première partie ce qui, dans le comportement des entreprises, les conduit au déclin. Il propose ensuite des pistes pour l'éviter. Le livre est très accessible du fait d'une démarche très progressive, pédagogique, et des très nombreux exemples venant supporter les explications.

May the best panacea win

Bob Lewis | September 29, 2009

This seems to be the year for business panaceas. Not a few recent books have presented the formula for business success. Adam Hartung’s Create Marketplace Disruption insists that sustainable success can only come from “white spaces” where you create or redefine marketplaces rather than competing in existing ones.

Kaiser Health News: Today’s Opinions And Editorials

September 19, 2009

American business is jeopardized by ever-escalating health care costs. In other countries businesses don’t carry those costs on their books. They’re carried by government, paid for out of taxes (Adam Hartung, 8/18).

Is Tide Basic an Innovation?

Hutch Carpenter | August 29, 2009

Adam Hartung, Managing Partner of Spark Partners, a strategy and transformation consultancy, asked this question on LinkedIn: “Do you think ‘Tide Basic,’ a less-good formulation, is an innovation? Isn’t innovation about making things better and cheaper, not just cheaper?”

Harvard Business School: Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?

Jim Heskett | August 7, 2009

Does U.S. health care need more pull or push? There are clear symptoms that something is wrong with U.S. health care. In Edward Hare’s words, “It’s making us uncompetitive and turning us against each other.”

Murdoch might leave Kindle for Sony, McGraw Hill Textbooks

switch11 | August 6, 2009

Adam Hartung has a post on Kindle and Sony Readers that’s really good. He points out that (courtesy a Forrester survey) 57% of people have never even seen an eReader. A further 36% have seen but not used it. What Adam Hartung has pointed out is pretty important i.e. only 6.5% of people in the Forrester study have ever owned or used an eReader. People might not all read books — However, they all read.