The true purpose of a business

Rod Collins·28 January 2020·Strategy & Innovation

...One of the hottest trends in the food industry is the increasing popularity of plant-based products that replicate the taste of their meat counterparts. If you attend a baseball game at Minute Maid Park in Houston, change planes at the LAX Airport, or stop by your local Burger King, you… Read More...

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Resilience – Communication

Karen Ferris·27 January 2020·People & Change

...In this series, I am introducing you to the twenty superpowers that leaders need to possess to create an environment for resilience. This is an environment in which individuals and teams are resilient in the face of constant change. Individual resilience is critical when the world around us is… Read More...

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Why we fail to plan for the future

Greg Satell·27 January 2020·People & Change

...I was recently reading Michiu Kaku’s wonderful book, The Future of Humanity, about colonizing space and was amazed at how detailed some of the plans are. Plans for a Mars colony, for example, are already fairly advanced. In other cases, scientists are actively thinking about technologies that… Read More...

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Are you ready to transform?

Jens Jahn, Manuel Luiz, Reinhard Messenböck and Robert Werner·27 January 2020·People & Change

...When a company launches a large-scale transformation, leaders can feel as though they’re flying blind. Are their teams ready for a transformation? Are the right elements for success in place? How should they define change readiness, and what specific actions will deliver the greatest business value? Understanding an organization’s readiness… Read More...

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Insights for a 2020 Vision

Mel Ross·23 January 2020·People & Change

...We profile and support the development of digital age leadership across the globe, working with enterprise, government and disruptive businesses. This exposure to the maturity level, ambitions, fears and competency of leaders means we have a unique insight into the state of leadership mindset & behaviour as well… Read More...

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The leading country for innovation for 2020 is…

Braden Kelley·23 January 2020·Strategy & Innovation

...The latest Bloomberg Innovation Index is out (2020 edition), and Germany has risen to first place, breaking South Korea’s six-year winning streak, while the U.S. fell one notch to No. 9. “Innovation is a critical driver of growth and prosperity. China’s move up the rankings, and… Read More...

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Innovation Building Block #3: Discovery, exploration and novelty

Jeffrey Phillips·23 January 2020·Strategy & Innovation

...I’m writing a series of posts about what I consider to be the fundamental building blocks of innovation.  The building blocks I’m writing about are core to doing innovation well over a period of time. The first building block I wrote about was creating a bias for innovation in… Read More...

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23 insightful IT due diligence red flags

Hutton Henry·22 January 2020·Delivery

...I’ve managed through numerous DD projects this month, and they prompted me to provide some information on the typical “red flags” that we often observe. This is a long post that I will continue to contribute to. Please reach out if you have any additional ideas. To put this article… Read More...

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Retail Rundown – Retail’s Big Show Special

Tony D'Onofrio·21 January 2020·Customer Engagement

...January 20, 2020 – NRF 2020: Retail’s Big Show Special: We hear from Tony D’Onofrio, Ricardo Belmar, Paul Lewis and Doug Stephens about their key takeaways from this year’s Big Show. No time for news? We’ve got you covered. Welcome to the Retail Rundown, your go-to weekly podcast where RETHINK… Read More...

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Do constructive damage to the status quo: how to execute digital innovation

Paul Taffinder·21 January 2020·Strategy & Innovation

...Iconoclastic Leaders. It is an error frequently made by executives in trying to change their organizations, that they overfocus on setting out and pursue new directions, new organizational structures or ways of working, new processes and so on. Nothing wrong in this per se, but if executives strive only for… Read More...

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Resilience – Leadership

Karen Ferris·20 January 2020·People & Change

...Last week I introduced you to the twenty superpowers that leaders need to possess to create an environment for resilience. This is an environment in which individuals and teams are resilient in the face of constant change. Individual resilience is critical when the world around us is volatile, uncertain,… Read More...

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Modernizing the Enterprise Monolith

Mark Hewitt·20 January 2020·Strategy & Innovation

...Green Paper versus White Paper. The term white paper originated with the British government, and many point to the Churchill White Paper of 1922 as the earliest well-known example under this name. White papers are a way the government can present policy preferences before it introduces legislation. Publishing a white… Read More...

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