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
If you believe the rumors, Amazon.com is going to enter the mobile phone business this week, with most pundits guessing that a mysterious video suggest that it will release a phone with novel 3-D viewing capabilities. There are obvious reasons for Amazon to be eying the category. The mobile phone industry is massive, with close […]… Read More
It’s easy to get lost in the fog and never make any decision at all. In this Fast Company article, Scott Anthony shares how to break through and get the most out of your ideas.… Read More
After an unprecedented decade of growth, analysts wrote off 2013 as a year to forget for Apple. Most pundits agreed on what was wrong — a lack of breakthrough innovation since the passing of founder Steve Jobs. But in our view, Apple faces a deeper problem: the industries most susceptible to its unique disruptive formula are […]… Read More
This is it. You’ve aligned calendars and will have all the right decision-makers in the room. It’s the moment when they either decide to give you resources to begin to turn your innovative idea into reality, or send you back to the drawing board. How will you make your most persuasive case? Inside most companies, […]… 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
Most healthcare leaders know in their gut that the industry has to make a fundamental shift in the way care is paid for and delivered. But they worry – What’s will our business be like in the new future? How do we get there? What’s the path forward? By creating a unique collaborative approach to […]… 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
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
In this Bloomberg Businessweek piece, Rebecca Waber discusses the growing opportunity in consumer-centered health care.… Read More