Chris is an expert on making innovation happen in large organizations.
He broke into the forefront of executive consciousness with the blockbuster article that led the May 2005 Harvard Business Review, “Building Breakthrough Businesses Within Established Organizations.” The article is adapted from Chris’s book Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators – from Idea to Execution (Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 2005) with Vijay Govindarajan, named a “top 10 read” in the Wall Street Journal.
Chris is a frequent speaker on the topic of innovation. He has delivered keynote addresses at major conferences and has also worked with dozens of private clients — including GE, IBM, Microsoft, Fidelity, and the New York Times Company — in roundtable discussions and executive education programs.
Chris is on the faculty at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and is a senior fellow at Katzenbach Partners LLC.
Building
Breakthrough Businesses Within Established Organizations
By Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble Harvard Business Review, May 01, 2005
Strategic experiments are crucial to long-term
growth—but exactly what does it take to get promising ideas out of the
incubator and up and running as sustainable new businesses? (Designated a ‘most popular’ HBR reprint)
Strategic Innovation and the Science of
Learning MIT
Sloan Management Review, Winter 2004
Theory-focused planning helps executives pursue ventures so cutting-edge that no road maps exist. The key is learning from strategic experiments.
