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Business Strategy

April 8, 2011

Analysts or business designers in today’s strategy work?

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 »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Profitable Organic Growth

February 7, 2011

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 »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Strategy Execution

January 7, 2011

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 »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Innovation, Profitable Organic Growth

January 7, 2011

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 »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Innovation, Profitable Organic Growth

January 5, 2011

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 »

Filed Under: Business Strategy

December 21, 2010

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 »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Innovation Flops, News Archives

December 3, 2010

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. 

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Innovation, News Archives

August 13, 2010

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 »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Innovation, Profitable Organic Growth

July 30, 2010

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 »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Innovation, Profitable Organic Growth

July 21, 2010

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 »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy

July 15, 2010

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 »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Innovation, Strategy Execution

July 13, 2010

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 »

Filed Under: Business Strategy

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