Thinking strategically
Today, more often than not, strategy has become a linear process where ‘secret’ plans, goals and targets are established by an elite group of senior …
Disruption
Service vs Buy vs Build
Future orientated organisations are getting thinner and more agile with an increasing focus on technology efficiency and core business differentiatio…
The city of tomorrow, from dream to reality
What do people dream of today? The philosopher Walter Benjamin used to say that a society assesses its living conditions in its dreams, meaning the dis…
Abundance – The alternative aesthetic
The UN acknowledges that more than 1.4 billion people are destitute. In other words, they live in poverty so extreme they can barely survive. This calc…
An office working revolution?
The world as we know it has changed and we have but no choice to change with it. There are various reports that institutions are not going to let more …
You Never Can Tell!
The COVID-19 pandemic is inviting us to reconfigure and reframe the relationships we have - not only with each other, but also with nature, as the spec…
How Long O Lord Will You Forget Me?
Young people play a critical role in the transition to a healthier, more prosperous, future. The various protests, activism, and civil disobedience we …
The Wisdom of Generations
We are reaching a tipping point when transformation to a healthier, more prosperous, but less toxic world, will be possible. It is dependent not on too…
Returning to Business-as-Usual
There are always valuable lessons to be learned from how we deal with any situation involving large numbers of people - particularly those events that …
Can large companies disrupt?And indeed, should they even try?
What does it take for an organisation to become a game changer? Finding the new product or service might be easier than ticking all of the boxes in ter…
How to reduce the risk of disruption (destruction)
Are you a long-established player in a highly competitive industry that has been operating the way it has for a number of years? Are you a candidate fo…
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). Aggressiv…
Telcos Second Chance
5G will deliver a new paradigm shift and encourage totally disruptive business models. Telcos own this infrastructure and should be ideally positioned …
The Innovator’s PURPOSE
What is the PURPOSE of innovation? Are we just innovating to create more profit for our organisations, higher margins, or to increase efficiency or pro…
Tomorrow thinking for CEOs
Why does it seem that most large organisations are too paralyzed to move fast enough in times when corporate agility is the only response that will hel…
Using ‘innovation’ as a catch all word is dangerous
Innovation is not a magic pill that will cure all ills. Using it as a catch all word is dangerous as this will impact expectations, actions and most im…
