It’s been five or more years since the Great recession walloped economies all over the world, with the result that for many companies it has been a time of doing not very much but cost-cutting,… Read more »
Thought Sparks
End of Competitive Advantage Goes Global & Input please!
The English-speaking version of The End of Competitive Advantage has been doing very well, even reaching the business best-seller list! We’re now on to versions in other languages. So far the Portuguese, Turkish and Russian… Read more »
Portuguese edition of End of Competitive Advantage now available
Just in time for the World Cup in Brazil, I’m delighted to be able to say that the Portuguese-language edition of The End of Competitive Advantage is now available for purchase. You can get to… Read more »
Breakfast session June 4th with WOBI on Innovation
I’m very much looking forward to a breakfast session next week that I’ll be running as part of a partnership between Columbia Business School and WOBI in New York. We’ll be talking about how you can… Read more »
Sustainable advantage, Transient Advantage and Organizational Change
In an insightful blog that is part of a series HBR is running on the intersection between Strategy and Innovation, editor Sarah Cliffe interviews colleague Don Sull, who argues that you can think of the… Read more »
Continuous reconfiguration – commended paper by Emerald Insight
Emerald Insight commended the research behind a recent paper, Continuous Reconfiguration in the Transient Advantage Economy. In a nutshell, what I found was that firms that were capable of delivering consistent performance over a relatively… Read more »
What do The Weather Channel, Apple’s iPod and future banking services all have in common?
These players often created entire categories of new consumption – from just-in-time and on demand weather updates, to a transformative way to listen to your own content whenever you felt like it to new kinds… Read more »
Say it isn’t so…my beloved iPod has gone into erosion
In my book The End of Competitive Advantage, I point out that even extremely potent advantages are subject to erosion. Even when they were once hugely popular, transformative and much loved, like the Apple iPod… Read more »
Postponed – CBS Sunday Morning Show March 23 9am with Rita
CBS Correspondent Martha Teichner and I had a stimulating conversation about disruption that will be part of CBS “Sunday Morning’s” annual Money program. We chatted about businesses that have become vulnerable to disruption and why it… Read more »
Organizational agility: The CEO’s top concern?
Last week at the Managing Partners’ Forum held on March 12 in London, Caspar de Bono of the Financial Times opened this high-level conference for leaders of professional services firms with an observation about the… Read more »
Davos CEO Session: Organizational Agility and Learning in a Complex World
The World Economic Forum has introduced a well-received innovation in their program lineup, what they call the CEO Series. These feature CEO’s as panelists and the audience consists of only CEO’s and similarly high-level folks… Read more »
Davos session: Future of International e-tailing
While in Davos, a panel on the future of international e-retailing was convened with representative CEO’s from major international logistics, supply chain and retail providers. The panel opened with the question of why international e-retailing… Read more »