Five Trends of the Future Consumer
Last week I had the pleasure of attending Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies’ Summer University, “The Future Consumer and Marketplace[1].” CIFS is an international, apolitical, and not-for-profit...
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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...
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How Understanding Disruption Helps Strategists
Through the past 15 years my colleagues and I have wrestled with disruption in many contexts. That’s no surprise, since Clayton Christensen co-founded our company in 2000, five years after his Harvard...
View ArticleChanging the Story of Innovation: How to Create Happier Outcomes for New...
The workshop at a large global consumer products company ended in an unfortunate place. After an engaged discussion and the review of the first three years of a product launch, the group concluded that...
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What Do You Really Mean by Business “Transformation”?
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...
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Where Zombie Projects Come From – And Why Killing Them Needs to Be Systematized
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...
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How CFOs Can Take the Long-Term View in a Short-Term Economy
Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price. This, in turn, is triggering a shift in the...
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When Innovators Fail: Frustration, Wishful Thinking, and the Building of an...
If an athletic department at a large university made a decision to develop a world class rowing program, but the university administrators banned all water sports as too risky, we could hardly expect...
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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology
A generation ago, a “Kodak moment” meant something that was worth saving and savoring. Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and...
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4 Assumptions About Risk You Shouldn’t Be Making
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” The line is instantly recognizable as the conclusion of “The Road Not Taken” by Robert...
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