Why Businesses Don’t Experiment

Several years ago, I was involved in developing a video on demand business in hospitality industry in China. After months of research, simulation and deliberation, we came up with the business strategy and a set of business models. While we were excited about the future of the business based upon the business plan that we had developed, we wanted to validate our ideas and tested in three hotels. Only after the ideas proved to be effective, we set out to raise investment fund and spin the unit off from its parent company. Many companies, however, don’t experiment. The article published at Harvard Business Review describes an failed case of experiment and discusses about the reasons that some companies avoid experiment…


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Innovation and Air Sandwich

Chances are, you're already familiar with the concept of the Air Sandwich, if not the term itself. An Air Sandwich is what happens when the leadership within an organization issues orders from 80,000 feet and lobs them down to the folks at 20,000 feet. A former Autodesk employee talks about how air sandwich prevented vision from being realized…


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