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August 2, 2022

How LEGO used Agile Principles to Accelerate Innovation

Source:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCXMx7RcZ5I   Agile methods – in which work is done in parallel by cross-functionally staffed teams – has been the subject of a lot of hype. How refreshing, then, to discover examples of firms… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Growth, Growth Options / Real Options, Leadership, Opportunities, Seeing Around Corners

July 26, 2022

Flywheels vs. Relationships – Why your business architecture matters to your initial marketing plan

In developing an initial marketing plan, it is crucial not to be confused about what kind of business architecture you are building in order to establish your initial metrics for success. Geoffrey Moore has a great… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Strategy, Growth, Innovation, Insights and ideas, Leadership, Opportunities, Seeing Around Corners

July 19, 2022

From Funnels to Flywheels

Traditional sales organizations used the concept of a sales “funnel” to describe the process through which potential customers move, ending up with sales at the end. Winners today have abandoned that way of thinking in… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Case Studies and Applications, Seeing Around Corners

July 11, 2022

Boris Johnson, How the Powerful Escape Consequences and Jeff Pfeffer’s Fantastic Book

One of Pfeffer’s 7 rules of power is that “Success Excuses (almost) Everything:  Why This is the Most Important Rule of All.  Which perhaps explains why Britain’s Boris Johnson was able to hang onto power… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Leadership, News Archives, Thought Sparks

June 22, 2022

Eyes glaze over when we talk about inflation? You’re not alone. But what you don’t know can hurt you.

Chart credit:  https://www.macrotrends.net/2497/historical-inflation-rate-by-year   For anybody born after about 1985, meaning most folks under 40, all this talk about inflation seems kind of old-timey.  Indeed, as Public Radio host Kai Ryssdal (citing a story in… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Careers, Customer insight, Individuals, Seeing Around Corners, Thought Sparks

May 17, 2022

Startups in distress – we’ve seen this movie before

Wired magazine offered an article on the state of things in startup-land and discovered, astonishingly, that “The Bad times are Coming for Startups.” But not every startup, of course, mainly the ones that blithely ignore entrepreneurship… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Growth, Growth Options / Real Options, Innovation, Technology

May 10, 2022

Bright Promise and Dashed Hopes – The AT&T Media Strategy Saga

Big, expensive unions of large and unwieldy companies almost never work out well. The sudden termination of CNN+ is but the latest casualty in a long history of things that began with a lot of… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Strategy, Growth, Innovation, Insights and ideas, Leadership, Opportunities, Thought Sparks

May 3, 2022

You can’t avoid the digital dimension of your business, even if you wanted to!

Asking what your digital strategy is today is a lot like asking what your electricity strategy was at the turn of the last century. Seems absurd. Yet both questions reflect how a shift in an… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Strategy, Digital, Growth, Innovation, Thought Sparks

April 26, 2022

Say what???? The optimistic launch and ignominious end of CNN+

The announcement that after an expenditure of something like $300 million, CNN was going to pull its CNN+ streaming service after just a month in operation sent shock waves through the media and entertainment ecosystem…. Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Strategy, Case Studies and Applications, Competition, Digital, Innovation Flops, News Archives, Opportunities, Thought Sparks

November 16, 2021

Can Agile Make Wherever You Work a Better Place?

The Great Resignation continues to gather steam as people in their millions re-evaluate their relationship with work. But not everyone has the luxury or the bandwidth to quit, at least not right now. And there is no guarantee… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Seeing Around Corners

November 2, 2021

10 Questions to Ask Before You Believe in a Business Model

Some business models are inherently more attractive than others, yet investors and other stakeholders often don’t ask the obvious questions. Here’s a checklist that makes sure you are not one of them. People like to make… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Innovation, Seeing Around Corners

April 5, 2021

Think you Know Who Your Competition Is? Think Again!

In a world where we’re going from industries to arenas, how you define the competitive playing field can either give you an edge or set you back.  If you believe the strategy textbooks, you would… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy

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