I was chatting the other day with a good client who are located way too far away (but that’s another story). We talked generally about how his company was doing (very well) and what he… Read more »
Thought Sparks
What trends fuel the disruption list for 2014?
It was really fun to be part of CNBC’s advisory panel to choose the most disruptive 50 companies of the year. The full list for 2014 can be found at this link. Some of the… Read more »
How do we get our middle managers back into a growth mindset?
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 »
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 »