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June 24, 2019

Building a Proficiency for Game Changing Innovation and Growth: Mastering the Opportunity Portfolio

When you ask why large companies have a problem building an innovation proficiency, you get back all the usual suspects: “We have silos.” “It’s nobody’s job.” “We’re afraid of failure.” “It’s unpredictable.” And what do all… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Innovation, Opportunities, Thought Sparks

March 18, 2019

How Inflection Points in the Hotel Business Change Where You Lay Your Head

In 1977, James Eyster, then a Ph.D. student at Cornell, published a book that would completely change the nature of the hotel business worldwide. His idea could not sound more boring—unless you saw the impact… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Thought Sparks

February 9, 2019

When Hierarchy Is Not an Option: A New Organizational Model for Fast-Moving Contexts

Earlier this month, I spoke at the Human Resources Directors Conference in the United Kingdom. At the conference, I shared some material excerpted from my forthcoming book, Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Insights and ideas, Thought Sparks

January 22, 2019

How to Lead an Organization Through an Inflection Point

I was recently at a conference with Curt Carlson, a brilliant leader of innovation who for many years ran SRI, the research organization responsible for the invention of Apple’s Siri and many other multi-billion dollar… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Insights and ideas, Thought Sparks

January 8, 2019

Decoding why digital is so disruptive

My colleague, Ryan P. McManus, is at CES this week and is much in demand for his perspective on why digital is so disruptive.  He traces the evolution of digital from its 4G impact on… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Digital, Innovation, Transient Advantage

July 6, 2017

One reason Tesla Lost $10 Billion in Market Capitalization in a Breathtakingly short period of time

Understanding investor psychology can be baffling and frustrating for the managers of publicly traded corporations.  For instance, despite what many would regard as a stellar track record of proven performance, CEO Mark Fields was fired… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Growth Options / Real Options, Innovation, Profitable Organic Growth, Thought Sparks

May 2, 2017

This month’s newsletter-All about what’s going on in the #grocery store

It’s ironic – Whole Foods did a great job of teaching all of us that natural and organic are desirable. And for about 30 years, that created a strong, high-margin position for them in the… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Strategy Dynamics, Thought Sparks, Transient Advantage

October 13, 2016

Innovation and Jobs-to-be-Done discussed in my latest newsletter

My latest newsletter offers observations and ideas that were discussed at two CEO Summits sponsored by Innosight and featuring keynotes by Clayton Christensen and myself.   We discussed Clay’s terrific new book, Competing Against Luck, some… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Growth Options / Real Options, Innovation, Opportunities, Profitable Organic Growth, Thought Sparks, Uncategorized

October 11, 2016

‘If you can’t do it, we’ll find somebody who can’ can be disastrous

Recent corporate scandals and mishaps should remind us that what can feel like the creation of a pragmatic sense of urgency in the “C-Suite” can translate into deeply dysfunctional behavior farther down the organization. Just… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Strategy Execution

August 27, 2016

Why managing an opportunity portfolio leads to surprising investment decisions

There is no shortage of interesting strategic activity going on in the intertwining worlds of content creation, telecommunications and other forms of distribution.  The recent sales of AOL and Yahoo! to Verizon are representative of… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Growth Options / Real Options, Profitable Organic Growth, Thought Sparks

August 16, 2016

Insight into unintended consequences-anticipating the effects of low oil prices

Over the years, I’ve cited and used some of the work done by the Futures Strategy Group principals in their development of very robust tools that help organizations anticipate (not predict) what might happen in… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Complexity, Insights and ideas

March 10, 2016

Staring down a disengagement decision at Yahoo!

Yahoo and its CEO of three years, Marissa Mayer, have been in the news a lot lately. While Yahoo’s checkered history and frequent changes in leadership have not done the company’s reputation any favors, it still… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Transient Advantage

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