tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905515.post9011495927817200001..comments2024-03-14T11:09:32.759-05:00Comments on Falkenblog: Bhide's EntrepreneursEric Falkensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07243687157322033496noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905515.post-78152272877930511842009-02-27T01:09:00.000-06:002009-02-27T01:09:00.000-06:00Also he's repeating many points that Peter Drucker...Also he's repeating many points that Peter Drucker was fond of making about the value of incremental improvements relative to "big ideas."Michael F. Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15279501532684851571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7905515.post-71293104015144542392009-02-27T01:06:00.000-06:002009-02-27T01:06:00.000-06:00Sounds like a good perspective, but I'm not sure i...Sounds like a good perspective, but I'm not sure it's mutually exclusive with Schumpeter or that it suggests that we need more MBAs and less engineers.<BR/><BR/>If I understand it right, he's basically explaining the organizational conditions necessary to a firm's achievement of compounded growth. Those conditions may be necessary but not sufficient. Perhaps it takes both a pioneering product or service idea (Schumpter) and the steady discipline he's describing to see the big gains. If so, it would be a mistake to discount either.<BR/><BR/>I see affinities between the view he seems to be presenting and the view of lean design and manufacturing theory. The emphasis in lean is on feedback loops that lead to development of human capital, with particular products or services being a proximate rather than ultimate goal for the organization.<BR/><BR/>The challenge for folks like Bhide is to identify useful metrics that managers can use to track these sorts of things. Otherwise the capabilities disappear with the managers who have an instinct for them.Michael F. Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15279501532684851571noreply@blogger.com