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May 14, 2019

Finding your arena – a new book and new toolkit

I was delighted to read Steve Blank’s great post featuring the work of my friend and colleague Marc Gruber.  Marc and I have been colleagues since my days in the entrepreneurship program at Wharton and… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Opportunities, Thought Sparks, Tools

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

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

February 6, 2015

Why the failure of Google Glass Might be a Boon to Google

It’s official. The nerdy glasses with augmented reality and all kinds of image capturing technologies have been pulled from the market. Already, the pundits are dissecting what went wrong. It is indeed a juicy story,… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Innovation Flops, Opportunities

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

April 3, 2012

Ron Adner’s response to my “Better Place” question

As promised, I asked Ron what he thought about A Better Place, a company that I'm very struck with that has the potential to transform our relationship with energy.  Turns out he'd given them a… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation, Opportunities, Strategy Execution

February 21, 2012

Square Enix and Business Model Disruption – Event tonight at Columbia!

This evening, I will be a discussant at an event sponsored by the Columbia Center on Japanese Economy and Business.  Entitled Video Games and the Shaping of Industrial Transformation, the event will feature a keynote… Read more »

Filed Under: Event Announcements, Innovation, Opportunities

June 13, 2011

Interesting application of options idea to “Green” Energy programs

A colleague of mine drew to my attention an NPR story about the Federal government's plans to develop green technologies.  In many ways, the approach echoes options reasoning:   Many small bets Substantial upside if… Read more »

Filed Under: Growth Options / Real Options, Opportunities

April 5, 2011

Prioritization – never an easy thing

Scott Anthony of Innosight wrote a great blog post:  3 ways to prioritize a long list of ideas which provides some good insight into how to start.   I'll add to that::  I also try to… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation, Opportunities, Strategy Execution

July 24, 2010

Uncertainty and risk in discovery driven planning

I was recently fortunate enough to be teaching in a very interesting program for strategy consultants at IBM.  One of their senior leaders, an ex-BCG guy, pointed out to me that I really could use… Read more »

Filed Under: Discovery Driven Planning, Growth Options / Real Options, Innovation, Opportunities

July 24, 2010

Idea generation is seldom the problem

So, you've decided that its time to get out from under that black cloud your business has been in for the last  two years and start thinking about growth again.  If you're a senior leader… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation, Opportunities, Profitable Organic Growth

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