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Moneyball (the movie) was all about understanding portfolio strategies...

Moneyball (the movie) was all about understanding portfolio strategies...

For me, one of the always best scenes of Moneyball scene is when Oakland A's General Manager Billy Beane (played by Brad Pitt) gets lectured by an unknown assistant Peter Brand (played by Jonah Hill). Peter doesn't care about conventional baseball wisdom where picking athletes as

Juicero, the symptom of solutions without problems

Juicero, the symptom of solutions without problems

Juicero was a startup that launched an expensive, Wi-Fi-connected juicing machine that cost $400 at launch and was later reduced to $200. The idea was to be a Nespresso-like business only with proprietary juice packs that users inserted into a beautiful machine to produce fresh juice. The company wasn'

The crisis has now fully erupted for automakers (and others), and that’s a good thing.

The crisis has now fully erupted for automakers (and others), and that’s a good thing.

Barring a few visionary companies that consistently navigate the innovator’s dilemma and pursue transformative innovation, most organizations achieve radical breakthroughs only when teetering on the edge of catastrophe. Crisis remains the most potent driver of innovation—not pleasant or comfortable, but it forces a reckoning and compels strategic questions

Nobody gets fired for following an innovation pipeline

Nobody gets fired for following an innovation pipeline

In the world of corporate innovation, there’s a parallel that rings with the same fatalistic undertone as “Nobody gets fired for buying IBM.” You're not going to be fired for running an innovation pipeline. It sounds harmless, but underneath, we have the same play-safe logic from most

If you name it, you're not doing it.

If you name it, you're not doing it.

I'm a firm believer in "If you name it, you're not doing it." If you specifically name innovation, design, or social inclusion when communicating or marketing your company, it mostly means you know it's an issue for your business. You're