links for 2008-07-26

July 26, 2008 in Links

• Why Innovation Is Overrated – Scott Berkun
  Making good things people love is the true spine of these companies successes, and it’s a stronger framework for managers to use when trying to learn from their examples.
  (tags: innovation business)
• Saving Strategy From the Strategists – Umair Haque
  What happened in finance? Everyone confused arbitrage with strategy.But arbitrage is simply about capturing value at the expense of counterparties: no new value is created by arbitrageurs…Strategy must be concerned with value creation in the first place
  (tags: strategy business innovation finance)