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May 10, 2022

Bright Promise and Dashed Hopes – The AT&T Media Strategy Saga

Big, expensive unions of large and unwieldy companies almost never work out well. The sudden termination of CNN+ is but the latest casualty in a long history of things that began with a lot of… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Strategy, Growth, Innovation, Insights and ideas, Leadership, Opportunities, Thought Sparks

May 3, 2022

You can’t avoid the digital dimension of your business, even if you wanted to!

Asking what your digital strategy is today is a lot like asking what your electricity strategy was at the turn of the last century. Seems absurd. Yet both questions reflect how a shift in an… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Strategy, Digital, Growth, Innovation, Thought Sparks

April 6, 2022

Thought Sparks Wrap Up – March 2022

Dear colleagues: The first quarter of 2022 was as momentous as any I have ever experienced. It was emotional to join my colleagues from the LvBS Business School, the Business School of the Catholic University… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Innovation, Insights and ideas, Leadership, Thought Sparks

April 5, 2022

When terrible things happen to good innovation projects…

OK, we have finally realized that innovation and transformation are not optional for the long run well-being of a large enterprise. But that is a far cry from having the capability to do something with… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Growth, Innovation

March 29, 2022

Knowing when to pull the plug – Part 2

With any corporate venturing program, one of the most important factors that will determine financial returns is the ability to stop investing in projects that simply won’t work out at all, or will be inconsequential… Read more »

Filed Under: Growth, Innovation

March 22, 2022

Knowing when to pull the plug – Part 1

With any corporate venturing program, one of the most important factors that will determine financial returns is the ability to stop investing in projects that simply won’t work out at all, or will be inconsequential… Read more »

Filed Under: Growth, Innovation

March 3, 2022

Thought Sparks Wrap Up – February 2022

Dear colleagues: Just when we begin to see glimmers of the emergence of whatever comes next, we are seemingly plunged into massive uncertainty once again, with geopolitical tensions and armed conflict that seemed unthinkable.  The Washington… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Innovation, Insights and ideas, Leadership, Thought Sparks

February 15, 2022

Crazy, Unloved but Potentially Transformational – What’s in your Loonshot nursery?

Author Safi Bahcall introduced the term “loonshots” to describe ventures with game-changing potential that nobody thought would work and whose champions were ridiculed. Which raises the question of how you keep the crazy ideas alive… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Innovation, Seeing Around Corners, Technology

February 3, 2022

Thought Sparks Wrap Up – January 2022

Dear colleagues: I just got used to the idea of not saying “Happy new year” and here it is, February.  It’s been fun so far – I returned to teaching in person on campus in… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Strategy, Innovation, Insights and ideas, Leadership

February 1, 2022

It worked great, until it didn’t: The surprising, but perhaps foreseeable, shutdown of Drinkworks

Two companies needed a new growth vector. One was great at branding alcoholic beverages. The other was great at making home appliances that customers could use to create self-serve beverages. A match made in heaven!… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Innovation, Seeing Around Corners

January 11, 2022

Happy 2022 – Building New Skills for the New Year!

Grateful to you in ‘22! It was a joy to be able to spend time virtually – and in precious rare cases – in real life – with you over the past year. I appreciate… Read more »

Filed Under: Friday Fireside Chat, Growth, Innovation, Seeing Around Corners

January 4, 2022

Uncertain about the future? A well-defined strategy can help

The word “strategy” has come to mean anything in an organization that is important. But great strategies drive real purpose and decision-making. Define one that is meaningful, and you can guide real-time choice-making across your… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Competition, Growth, Innovation, Seeing Around Corners

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