Innovation Killers

In this seminal article, innovation experts Clayton M. Christensen, Stephen P. Kaufman, and Willy C. Shih explore the key reasons why companies struggle to innovate. The authors uncover common mistakes companies make — from focusing on the wrong customers to choosing the wrong products to develop — that can derail innovation efforts, and offer a better way forward for management teams who want to avoid these obstacles and get innovation right.

• Misapplying Discounted Cash Flow and Net Present Value
• Using Fixed and Sunk Costs Unwisely
• Focusing Myopically on Earnings Per Share
• Processes that Support (or Sabotage) Innovation
• Stage-gate Innovation
• Discovery-driven Planning

This is a short article, but pretty decent anyway. Worth reading if you're into innovation, and it manages to be interestinh.