I was recently in a meeting with an innovation manager at a large company who told me about all the projects he was overseeing. When I asked who was actually working on these efforts, he mentioned there were some part-time internal people and some external contractors. I told him politely that it was highly unlikely […]… Read More
Today’s corporate watchword word is transformation, and for good reason. One study suggests that 75% of the S&P 500 will turn over in the next 15 years. Another says that one in three companies will delist in the next five years. A third shows that the “topple rate” of industry leaders falling from their perch […]… Read More
Innosight forecasts half of S&P 500 companies to be replaced over the next 10 years.… Read More
Clay Christensen describes how the thinking on disruptive innovation has evolved and discusses the utility of the theory.… Read More
Detecting marketplace “fault lines” is the key to building the case for preemptive change. Read the full Harvard Business Review article.… Read More
Innosight’s seventh senior executive summit drew leaders of companies ranging from Aetna, Boeing, and Procter & Gamble to MetLife, Wal-Mart and Xerox. Held in our Business Design Lab in August 2015, the discussion focused on tackling three critical questions around overcoming the human dynamics that persistently stand in the way of innovation and change at… Read More
One of the world’s foremost health care leaders joined us for our CEO Summit. We asked him four questions about how he manages organizational change. … Read More
Leaders ascend to their positions by mastering today’s (or even yesterday’s) business. Almost by definition, they don’t have first-hand experience with a disruptive shift in their market when they encounter it. A lack of intuition around the new and different can at best slow progress and at worst lead to serious strategic missteps. What should […]… Read More
What should leaders do to boost their organization’s ability to innovate? There’s a seemingly endless list of options to consider. Set up a new-growth group. Launch an idea contest. Change the reward systems. Run an action-learning program to develop the top leadership team’s ability to confront ambiguity. Form a venture investment fund. Take a road […]… Read More
From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. The hardest part is connecting long-term goals to near-term actions — especially when those new actions […]… Read More