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August 24, 2021

The Discipline that Turns Vision into Reality

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 »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Discovery Driven Planning, Growth Options / Real Options, Innovation, Seeing Around Corners, Tools, Uncategorized

August 10, 2021

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 »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Innovation, Innovation Maturity Scale, Uncategorized

October 8, 2019

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 »

Filed Under: Insights and ideas, Thought Sparks, Uncategorized

March 1, 2019

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 »

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November 29, 2018

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 »

Filed Under: Thought Sparks, Uncategorized

October 16, 2018

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.  

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September 30, 2018

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 »

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September 20, 2018

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 »

Filed Under: Thought Sparks, Uncategorized

July 10, 2018

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 »

Filed Under: Digital, Thought Sparks, Uncategorized

June 12, 2018

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 »

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June 11, 2018

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 »

Filed Under: Thought Sparks, Uncategorized

June 6, 2018

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 »

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