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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

October 1, 2016

Preparing for the 8th Annual Drucker Forum

A few years ago, I started attending the Global Peter Drucker Forum, which has become a real who’s who of management conferences.  It takes place each November in Vienna and features luminaries and thought leaders… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Insights and ideas

January 24, 2016

What a startup can learn about customer needs from a medieval practice

In a recent article over at Fortune, I explore what Transferwise, a fast-growing new startup has rediscovered:  an enduring customer need that is currently featuring in the migrant crisis, Hawala.  The practice of Hawala originated centuries… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Case Studies and Applications, Innovation, Thought Sparks

September 27, 2015

Implications of the Unicorn Economy

In my most recent newsletter, I suggested that businesses would do well to anticipate the consequences of a valuation bubble bursting in Silicon Valley with so many private companies valued at more than a billion… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation, Opportunities, Thought Sparks, Transient Advantage

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

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

August 14, 2014

Don’t listen to what your customers say, watch how they behave

I am often asked by companies with whom I work whether focus groups, surveys or customer panels are useful in learning what customers want and more importantly, what they will pay for.  Sure, these techniques… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation, Insights and ideas, Uncategorized

June 20, 2014

What trends fuel the disruption list for 2014?

It was really fun to be part of CNBC’s advisory panel to choose the most disruptive 50 companies of the year.  The full list for 2014 can be found at this link. Some of the… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation, Opportunities

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