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Profitable Organic Growth

January 10, 2023

If your organization operates as a multi-layer bureaucracy, it’s headed for extinction

Image credit:  https://elearningindustry.com/reasons-why-talent-development-is-important Happy New Year!  Ram Charan and I co-authored an article just out in this month’s Harvard Business Review about how technology is creating the conditions for what we call the “permissionless” corporation…. Read more »

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

July 20, 2021

The Lesson of the Direct to Consumer Revolution: Strategy 101 still matters

Every so often a new business model, often enabled by technology, takes the world by storm, attracts a lot of hype, eventually proves unable to live up to the headlines and disappears or becomes a… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Competition, Customer insight, Growth, Profitable Organic Growth, Strategy Dynamics, 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 6, 2017

An #Innovation Maturity Scale – Where does your organization stand?

One of the projects I’ve been working on is to create a set of metrics that organizations can use to measure their level of innovation maturity.  We’re piloting it with my Leading Strategic Growth and… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation, Innovation Maturity Scale, Profitable Organic Growth

December 14, 2016

Forum for Dynamic Innovation at Columbia Event January 10

The last few years have seen a resurgence of what Steve Blank and other startups folks call ‘innovation theater‘.  On January 10, I’ll be chatting with Steve and transformative CEO of HarperCollins, Brian Murray, about what… Read more »

Filed Under: Business School, Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Event Announcements, Innovation, Profitable Organic Growth

October 29, 2016

Growth insights in a 45 minute Facebook live session!

No Powerpoints, no notes, just the team at Harvard Business Review, terrific and astute questions from viewers and a white board.  Check out this free Facebook Live session that has already garnered over 132,000 views. In more news –… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Discovery Driven Planning, Event Announcements, Executive Education, Innovation, Profitable Organic Growth

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

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

October 28, 2015

Now in development: Mastering Corporate Entrepreneurship On-Line

What if you could take teams of people or individual contributors with an innovation mandate and have them go through a state of the art, hands-on and very applied journey through the essence of innovation… Read more »

Filed Under: Business School, Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Executive Education, Profitable Organic Growth, Uncategorized

June 1, 2015

Looking forward to the mach49 Mothership Blitz on Friday

As someone who has spent much of my life watching organizations fall victim to what I call the ‘transient advantage‘ economy, I’ve always been puzzled that despite its obvious importance, large organizations do a lot more… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation, Innovation Flops, Profitable Organic Growth, Transient Advantage

June 19, 2014

How do we get our middle managers back into a growth mindset?

It’s been five or more years since the Great recession walloped economies all over the world, with the result that for many companies it has been a time of doing not very much but cost-cutting,… Read more »

Filed Under: Discovery Driven Planning, Innovation, Profitable Organic Growth, Transient Advantage, Uncategorized

February 21, 2012

Recording of Webinar “How the Growth Outliers Do It” now available

Last month, Columbia Executive Education sponsored a webinar based on my Harvard Business Review article about growth outliers.  A webinar based on that article has been recorded.  If you missed the original, feel free to… Read more »

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