Leading a Digital Transformation? Learn to Code

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 to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

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

Reflections on Transformation

Last Wednesday we held a Webinar on corporate transformation. It drew on the Harvard Business Review article “Two Routes to Resilience” (in which Gilbert detailed his first-hand experience driving transformation as CEO of Deseret News) and Innosight’s field experience guiding corporate clients around transformation. The Webinar had three main messages: Transformation involves two components, not… Read More

Webcast: A Dual Approach to Transformation

Sooner or later, most companies will need to transform themselves in response to disruptive market shifts. It may not be today or tomorrow — but it will happen. Are you ready? Is your enterprise-ready?… Read More

Transforming a Company Is Daunting, But You Can Prepare for It

There’s no harder job for a corporate leader than transformation. One key to success is recognizing that transforming a business involves three activities: Transforming the core business to maximize its resilience (“Transformation A”) Creating a disruptive growth engine (“Transformation B”) Building a mechanism to share capabilities between the two (“Capabilities Exchange”) Those three activities (detailed […]… Read More

Two Routes to Resilience

Sooner or later, most companies will need to reinvent themselves in response to disruptive market shifts, technologies, or start-ups. But can a new business model quickly replace all the revenue an incumbent has lost to market upheaval? Only in rare instances, say the authors.… Read More