A LinkedIn Question went like this: Is business strategy as we teach it in Harvard Case Studies Obsolete? Do we need to develop business designers and not strategic planners? Traditioal strategic planning takes a… Read more »
Business Strategy
Expanding role for Finance Chiefs – utterly predictable
The Wall Street Journal last week published an article on the expanding role of CFO's and financial people generally in corporations. Well, it's a trend I've been watching for a while, and it isn't going to… Read more »
Profit from the Core - A growth theory is put to something of an empirical test and OUCH!
One of the more popular books on growth in recent years has been Profit From the Core, a book that suggests firms should focus their efforts on core and adjacent markets to find growth opportunities. … Read more »
Profit from the Core – A growth theory is put to something of an empirical test and OUCH!
One of the more popular books on growth in recent years has been Profit From the Core, a book that suggests firms should focus their efforts on core and adjacent markets to find growth opportunities. … Read more »
Free Download of Interview in Harvard Business Review for the first 100 subscribers
This month's Harvard Business Review features the partial transcript of an interview that I did with Sarah Cliffe on how one can tell if your business model is in trouble. The Review has offered free digital… Read more »
When life hands you lemons…AOL Style
What can you say about a 25-year-old web portal that has lost its grip on the public imagination? I refer of course to AOL, which for many of us was our first introduction to the… Read more »
New Podcast about Business Models
In this podcast, I discuss issues regarding business models, with examples ranging from firms such as Kodak, CEMEX and Bose. Have a listen! Feedback always welcome.
Sagantia Innovation Boot Camp - Kick Starting Innovation
Sagantia is a UK based technology and product development company that I've been studying as part of the research for a new project. Among the many interesting things they do is run an innovation boot… Read more »
Eroding advantage at Motorola
My colleague Alex van Putten was kind enough to forward along this interesting image from a report written by the Silicon Alley Insider. It visually depicts the fast erosion of Motorola's competitiveness in the phone… Read more »
Top Ten Reasons Not to go Public
A reporter recently asked me about the downsides of a firm going public – why might it not be the best course of action for them? Here are my "top ten": It is a… Read more »
While we’re on the subject of wrong ends of competitive waves…
It must be my week for seeing bad news in many places. I just love reading Scott Anthony's blog over at the HBR web site, where I also am a regular blogger. Scott is part… Read more »
Is BlackBerry on the wrong end of a competitive wave?
We've often talked about a "wave" of competitive advantage, in which insights form the basis for the launch of an offering, a company gets to exploit it for a while, and then inevitable erosion sets… Read more »