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January 18, 2016

Secrets of the Superbosses – catch up on Syd Finkelstein’s latest book

Lorne Michaels. Ralph Lauren. Alice Waters. George Lucas. Larry Ellison. Miles Davis. And a dozen others. Business leaders and creative icons with tremendous track records who all have something else in common: they helped develop… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Careers, Individuals

June 9, 2015

Ideas for a new business model for F. A. O. Schwarz

Well, no sooner had the digital ink dried on my piece about F. A. O. Schwarz closing their famous Fifth Avenue shop, when I received a communication from the company saying that I had it… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Innovation, Opportunities

February 6, 2015

Why the failure of Google Glass Might be a Boon to Google

It’s official. The nerdy glasses with augmented reality and all kinds of image capturing technologies have been pulled from the market. Already, the pundits are dissecting what went wrong. It is indeed a juicy story,… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Innovation Flops, Opportunities

March 21, 2014

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 »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Transient Advantage

March 19, 2014

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 »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Strategy Dynamics, Strategy Execution, Thought Sparks

February 5, 2014

CVS and the decision to drop tobacco sales – savvy strategic repositioning?

CVS’s decision to stop offering tobacco products is an example of a company shifting its resources from cash-flow-generating, but declining businesses into higher growth markets.  Tobacco, although a cash cow for many retailers (and a… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Thought Sparks

March 26, 2013

An interview with Rita by Thinkers50’s Des Dearlove

A while back, I was in London and took some time to catch up with the folks behind the Thinkers50 management awards.  We did a wide-ranging video in which we talk about the nature of competition… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Strategy, Innovation

July 31, 2012

Disruption visits law firms

Be a doctor or a lawyer – that was once the route to a guaranteed good life.  Both professions are seeing an erosion of that premise, with legal work being the most dramatic victim.  … Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Strategy Dynamics, Strategy Execution

January 19, 2012

What are we to use to replace industry analysis in strategy?

In my blog over at the Harvard business review web site, I noted that industry boundaries are blurring and that this can lead to serious strategy miscalculations.  Several people wrote in to say that they… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Strategy Dynamics

January 5, 2012

Lessons from the Growth Outliers – HBR Article available for download

This is an article about an exceptional group of companies – publicly traded, with market cap as of 2009 of over $1 Billion USD – who were able to grow their net incomes by at… Read more »

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

September 30, 2011

So much for “Keep the Change”

In 2005, Bank of America did something very unusual – they introduced an innovation in financial services that customers actually liked!  Called Keep the Change, the program targeted young women who were terrified of running… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Case Studies and Applications, News Archives

August 24, 2011

Growth ambitions, yes. Growth capability? Still working on that…

My colleagues over at the growth practice at consultancy Accenture surveyed some of their largest clients about their growth prospects.  The results are in my blog, “ready for growth, but  not prepared” over at the… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Profitable Organic Growth

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