Why (smart companies) do dumb things : lessons learned from innovation blunders : avoiding eight common mistakes in new product development / Calvin L. Hodock.
The innovation challenge -- Avoiding marketing misjudgment -- Antidotes to poisoned positioning -- The perils of dead-on-arrival products -- Competitive delusion -- Fatality in frugality -- The evil of timetable tyranny -- Defective marketing intelligence -- Marketing dishonesty -- What's it all about? -- Rules of engagement: shareholders -- Rules of engagement: corporations and MBA programs -- A few final thoughts.