In this interactive webcast, Scott Anthony shares lessons on how the right leadership and tools can help boost your company’s strategic agility and increase your odds of success. Learn how to accelerate ideas in innovation’s “first mile” – and avoid the most common pitfalls; Build a corporate culture of experimentation and learning and increase your company’s curiosity quotient; Use tools to successfully manage strategic uncertainty; Develop leadership and secure the right talent by organizing and building new skills around innovation.… Read More
Three ways the Internet of Things is changing the game for industrial companies.… Read More
What the media industry can teach us about digital business models.… Read More
Contrary to popular belief, Thomas Edison did not invent the lightbulb. Twenty or so inventors and labs had already come up with similar designs when he patented his in 1879. What Edison really invented was affordable and accessible electric light. Edison’s breakthrough was guided by a fundamental insight: any given product is only as powerful […]… 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
Corporate leaders generally view the emergence of disruptive technologies with dread. After all, disruption has led to the downfall of many a great company ranging from Kodak to Nokia, and even the most sophisticated companies struggle to respond to disruption. For those that have survived industry disruption, such as IBM and Intel, the experience has […]… 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
Don’t let the simplicity and affordability of launching innovations lure you into skipping over the strategic thinking beforehand.… Read More
Sometimes, knowledge is a bad thing, and it can be especially harmful when you’re trying to grow in a new region or open a new market. A case in point happened when my colleague Chris and I were part of a small team working to design and launch a venture in the medical tourism space. […]… Read More
Five steps that will prove skeptics wrong and start your efforts off on the right track.… Read More