The Future of Technology Management and the Business Environment: Lessons on Innovation, Disruption, and Strategy Execution

Acknowledgments

I would like to acknowledge my colleagues and my students. At the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management, I have learned about innovation from Andrew Van de Ven; about strategy from Aks Zaheer, Myles Shaver, Mary Benner, Aseem Kaul, and Anne Cohen; about entrepreneurship from Shaker Zahra, Harry Sapienza, and Dan Forbes; about the environment of business from Iain Maitland, Sri Zaheer, Joel Waldfogel, Paul Vaaler, Gurneeta Singh, Jiao Luo, Russel Funk, and Sunasair Dutta; and about timing from Stu Albert. My sincere hope is that the timing of this book is right.

At the Technological Leadership Institute, which is part of College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota, I have learned from the director, ...