Mid-Atlantic Innovation Blog
Liberating Consumer Health Information
November 20, 2009
Visit the RAZCODE Blog, our sister blog, to learn about the RAZCODE Gateway and our mission to liberate consumer health information.
The Internal Franchise Business Model
March 9, 2009
April marks the 10 year anniversary of the publication of my book – Act Like an Owner: Building an Ownership Culture. As I was thinking about the experience of writing the book over the weekend, I started to consider whether the central tenants of the book still made sense 10 years later, especially given the [...]
Innovation in Baltimore
February 23, 2009
Tomorrow February 24, 2009 marks the inaugural meeting of the Baltimore Angels investment group at the Emerging Technology Center (in which I am participating). The Baltimore Angels puts angel investors in touch with entrepreneurs via bimonthly meetings and other events. It is exciting to see the energy around this new group that is hoping to [...]
The Innovators Prescription for IT – Part 2
February 17, 2009
Part 2 of my post on the new book by Clayton Christensen called: The Innovators Prescription . Part 1 can be found here: (The Innovators Prescription for IT). A key theme of the book is that the general hospital is not a viable business model because it is focused on trying to do everything for everybody. [...]
The Innovators Prescription for IT
February 16, 2009
Over the weekend I finished reading The Innovators Prescription written by Clayton Christensen, a professor at Harvard Business School, along with Jason Hwang M.D. and the late Jerome Grossman M.D. Christensen intoduced the concept of disruptive innovation back in 1997 in The Innovators Dilemma. As I read this book, which is about applying the principles of disruptive [...]