...forthcoming blog

Sustainable developers (a.k.a. MBA290T.4 Classmates)...

In the spirit of my last class email, I am creating a blog as I will post my thoughts and supplementary references. I am choosing to host my discussion on Blogger because it will include items for my independent study on design in business, the new product development process, as well as reactions to other classes (notably Henry Chesbrough's Managing Innovation and Creativity and Jon Pittman's Design as Competitive Advantage) - so a convenient repository it is!

I do have thoughts on our latest Porter reading which I will have to share with you sometime after class (since I am running to an event). But for those of you who did not find the Richard Florida interview from my last email, note how his notion of "spikiness" relates to Porter's assertion that clusters can reflect a concentration of human talent and innovation.

For those of you not in Chesbrough's class, there is also a good article on disruptive technologies that relates to how technological discontinuities are the strongest external threat to a cluster. I cannot repost it here (it's a Harvard Business Review article)... but I'd love to chat or expound if y'all are interested.

Until class...
-Stan (Ryan's other name at Haas)