In the heady days of coming up with what you think is a breakthrough idea, it’s easy to get carried away by assumptions. Forcing yourself to create a deliverables specification can create powerful discipline. Entrepreneurs… Read more »
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You asked, We Answered: Questions on Innovation
Drop in on the Q&A portion of a recent innovation conference, sponsored by my colleagues at Visagio. I gave the keynote speech about Seeing Around Corners and the criticality of innovation. Here is an excerpt… Read more »
The Fast Changing, But Fickle, Competition in Consumer Packaged Goods
Digital has made a whole new kind of business model possible—and incumbents are reeling. Born-Digital Companies Are Going Direct They’re new, they’re nimble, and they’re communicating with your customers right under your nose, causing decades-long… Read more »
Seeing Around Corners: Workshop at Columbia’s BRITE conference
I’m just putting the finishing touches on the deck and interactive materials I’m going to be using for my workshop at the BRITE conference. I’m going to present for about 30 minutes on how you… Read more »
Preparing for Time Zero Events in Banking
We cannot predict the future, but we can prepare in advance. So how do you develop early warning signs that things are about to change in an industry? One technique for identifying leading indicators is… Read more »
Hello Tokyo!
I’m looking forward to visiting Japan next week with @Fujitsu_Global! In the meantime, here is an article about coming trends in autonomous vehicles that might be of interest to my Japanese friends.
Fear of self-cannibalization, Facebook early warning
In this insightful article, Kara Swisher notes that one big reason that Instagram’s co-founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, decided to leave was that the popular site was pulling users away from the “big blue” platform that is… Read more »
How Digital is Changing the Business of Getting Stuff from A to B
There are trillions up for grabs in the business of delivering things right to you, no matter where you are. A sector reeling from the cumulative effects of digitization is the global logistics business. In… Read more »
Privacy and Property Rights – an emerging inflection point in the use of personal information?
Dear Colleagues, When I was young, the go-to source for important information was a reference book, like the Encyclopedia Brittanica. It kept its secrets about who I was, what I read, which sections got attention,… Read more »
Discovery Driven Growth: An Idea Whose Time Has Come! Free Webinar Tomorrow
In this 30-minute FREE webinar, which includes a live Q&A, you’ll learn: • Why the techniques you use to run business as usual can be fatal to your growth efforts, and what approaches to use… Read more »
BREAKING UP THE DEGREE STRANGLEHOLD | Disruption in Higher Ed – Credentials by skills learned not degrees
By now, education was supposed to have been thoroughly disrupted. While digital platforms are great for disseminating knowledge, they are terrible at demonstrating what knowledge you have to others. For that, a credential from a… Read more »
Advertising vs. ad-blocking – who knew it would become an arms race?
In the heady early days of the World Wide Web, before the dot-coms and even before most organizations realized that having a web page was not going to be optional, far-seeing pundits observed that information… Read more »