Employee skill decluttering
All of us need to declutter our drawers. Consider you are using a screwdriver to fix something on the dressing table and once the mission is completed …
Business Model
Prepare for meetings like a surgeon
Imagine. You are going in for surgery. Before you get put under by the anesthesiologist, you ask if the surgeon and team are good to go. The anesthesio…
Why the ‘streaming wars’ aren’t anything of the sort…
As a number of recent articles have noted, Blockbuster went bust by itself, with a little help from Viacom (saddling it with $905m in debt). Aggressi…
Telcos Second Chance
The dawn of a new technological revolution is upon us. 5G will impact our lives in more ways than we think. Unlike its predecessors though, 5G is a tec…
Business Model Innovation – Democratizing Innovation at Scale
What makes business model innovation so important is that it captures how your business creates value and helps differentiate from your competitors. T…
The wheel inbetween
Get innovation rolling: discover your Wheel Inbetween In brief… The problem Everyone knows that innovation is vital, and there is lots of great publ…
The Brexit Breakthrough: How to Apply Relentless Reinvention in Uncertain Times
While the very mention of Brexit sends tempers flaring and many stomachs churning with absolute chaos, one thing is certain: change is coming to the UK…
Business Model Innovation: Creating Pathways to Relevance
The innovation conversation is happening every day , no matter your industry, function or location. It is an omnipresent scenario. Unfortunately, the d…
Four questions you need to ask about your business model – And how to answer them.
Despite all that has been said and written on business models, there is still much confusion around this poorly understood concept - up to a point wher…
Ten Ways To Evaluate If Your Organization Has An Innovation Mentality
“If you can dream it, you can do it.” If there were a top ten quotes that capture the essence of what innovation is about – the human spirit pushing b…
Network Operating Model: How To Design, Build & Embed An Agile Operating Platform Geared For Mounting Complexity & Rapid Change…
Setting The Scene Perched in Starbucks, I was humming away reading a John Kotter book called XLR8. The thrust of the book focused on the creation of a…
Long live the pioneers, rebels and mutineers, go forth and have no fear.
What is the link between singer-songwriter David Bowie, and Marillion the neo-progressive rock band of the 1980s? How does this relate to The Future Sh…
From the Rock Market to the Stock Market
Those from a certain generation will know the backstory to the title. ‘From the rock market to the stock market’ was the ad slogan of a famous televisi…
Next-Generation Hi-Level TOM Design
Try as I may, I'll never be able to recreate my wife’s secret sauce. It turns even the plainest dish into a masterpiece. It's a science - a tried and t…
Californication and the radical technologies
Across a new series of thought pieces, I’ll investigate the influence of California on our new ‘radical’ technologies such as Automation, Artificial In…