Chief Technology Officer Sophie Vandebroek tells how Xerox now helps other firms along a journey of innovation and renewal similar to the path it has been on for 15 years.… Read More
The plunge in oil prices provides an object lesson in strategy under uncertainty—exposing a divide between energy producers with sound strategies and those who built their business on a faulty assumption.… Read More
How much does your company need to invest in innovation? It seems like a simple enough question, but answering it with a degree of rigor often highlights a gap that’s bigger than you think between your future financial targets and your current investments in growth. Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger […]… Read More
Five steps that will prove skeptics wrong and start your efforts off on the right track.… Read More
Doug McMillon, the CEO and president of Wal-Mart stores, joined us at our recent CEO Summit. We spoke with him about his strategic vision.… Read More
In this Economic Times piece, Scott Anthony shares lessons on how to manage innovation and bring new ideas to life.… Read More
When investing in new growth businesses, corporate leaders are commonly advised to behave more like venture capitalists. VCs, they’re told, take more of a long-term approach, have a greater degree of risk tolerance, and parcel out their funds in stages to mitigate risk. All of this is right, as far as it goes. But having […]… Read More
“It is simple math,” the strategist said in a tone that sounded suspiciously similar to how I explain things to my six-year-old daughter. “Decreasing churn by a percent — a single percent! — creates tens of millions of dollars of value. A point of market share creates five times that amount. Our growth investments are […]… Read More
One of the first, and most lasting, pieces of career advice I received came from Linda Bush, my first project manager when I was a wee pup working at McKinsey & Company. “Ask a lot of questions,” Linda advised me. “You might think you are being annoying, but it’s the only way you learn. And […]… Read More
Readers in industries where the pace of change has slowed and ambiguity has decreased, please stop reading. This post isn’t for you. Everyone still here? Thought so. An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment […]… Read More