Just in time for the World Cup in Brazil, I’m delighted to be able to say that the Portuguese-language edition of The End of Competitive Advantage is now available for purchase. You can get to… Read more »
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Breakfast session June 4th with WOBI on Innovation
I’m very much looking forward to a breakfast session next week that I’ll be running as part of a partnership between Columbia Business School and WOBI in New York. We’ll be talking about how you can… Read more »
Sustainable advantage, Transient Advantage and Organizational Change
In an insightful blog that is part of a series HBR is running on the intersection between Strategy and Innovation, editor Sarah Cliffe interviews colleague Don Sull, who argues that you can think of the… Read more »
What do The Weather Channel, Apple’s iPod and future banking services all have in common?
These players often created entire categories of new consumption – from just-in-time and on demand weather updates, to a transformative way to listen to your own content whenever you felt like it to new kinds… Read more »
Postponed – CBS Sunday Morning Show March 23 9am with Rita
CBS Correspondent Martha Teichner and I had a stimulating conversation about disruption that will be part of CBS “Sunday Morning’s” annual Money program. We chatted about businesses that have become vulnerable to disruption and why it… Read more »
Davos CEO Session: Organizational Agility and Learning in a Complex World
The World Economic Forum has introduced a well-received innovation in their program lineup, what they call the CEO Series. These feature CEO’s as panelists and the audience consists of only CEO’s and similarly high-level folks… Read more »
Davos session: Future of International e-tailing
While in Davos, a panel on the future of international e-retailing was convened with representative CEO’s from major international logistics, supply chain and retail providers. The panel opened with the question of why international e-retailing… Read more »
Is your firm ready for a world of transient advantage? Please contribute to a new benchmark devised by Rita McGrath
I’ve been working with Richard Chaplin, Founder of the Managing Partners’ Forum, on an MPF survey that measures the extent to which different sectors are ready for a world of transient competitive advantage. The survey… Read more »
MarketDrivenGrowth: Driving Organic Growth and Innovation
Bob Cooper, Academic Director and Senior Fellow at the Kellogg School of Management reviews The End of Competitive Advantage (“fabulous book”) and discusses the five internal barriers that leads to growth stagnation here.
Inc.: Is It Easy for Your Customers to Leave You?
You’ve heard of barriers to entry, but it’s barriers to exit that determine the strength of your business model, according to Rita Gunther McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School. What’s an exit barrier? Simply put,… Read more »
Heading to the World Economic Forum Meeting in Davos
Next week, the World Economic Forum will be having its annual meeting in snowy Davos, Switzerland. I’m honored to be one of the subject matter experts they have invited to moderate sessions, offer challenges and… Read more »
Talk about industries competing with industries: PC’s versus weddings
Heard an interesting story on the radio the other day. An author (wish I wrote down his name) was being interviewed about a project he’s working on that involves understanding the financial lives of Americans. … Read more »