Intellectual Property Law

Big Ideas in Business and Law

By Harry Boadwee

Here are some of the big ideas in business over the past 100 years, according to a short feature in BusinessWeek.  Many were fads, but most — even the early ones — have had staying power:

• Open Innovation - 2000
• Reengineering - 19990
• Outsourcing - 1989
• Six Sigma - 1987
• 360-Degree Performance Reviews - 1973
• Scenario Planning - 1967
• Lean Manufacturing - 1950’s
• Skunk Works - 1943
• Brand Management - 1931
• Market Segmentation - 1920
• The Assembly Line - 1910

I haven’t found a comparable list of ideas in Law, but I’m intrigued by a book, The Little Book of Big Ideas: Law by Robert Hockett, forthcoming this spring.

Full post as published by AS-IS Blog on March 17, 2009 (boomark / email).