Nurturing and scaling a purposeful innovation culture while building effective leadership.
When discussing innovation (changing the market), it's often overlooked that your brand will hold you back, sometimes drastically. A brand embodies your market's tacit and explicit expectations about what you deliver. If in doubt about it, or even if you don't know how much...
In January 2009, Tim Cook, at the time Acting Apple CEO, was laying off his doctrine during Apple's first Earnings Call of the year: We believe that we’re on the face of the Earth to make great products, and that’s not changing. We’re constantly focusing...
I've been discussing seasonal businesses with a few customers recently. Whether there are B2C or B2B, dealing with a peak and a low season completely changes how you can approach innovation. There are many reasons for that, but one that always strikes me as spectacularly missed: managers of...
It's no secret we focus as much on culture as strategy when working with customers. The reason is quite simply that if you don't factor in the type of business culture you deal with, you have zero chance to deploy an innovation strategy that will take...
Today, we're talking about the rise and fall of film technology and how one company, Fujifilm, managed to pivot and adapt to new businesses. Fujifilm was established in 1934 as a subsidiary of Daicel with the aim of producing photographic films. For decades, Fujifilm dominated the camera film...
If you think The Godfather II would be the worst possible source to find the proper inspiration for strategy and innovation, I'd be with you. That being said, the movie has an interesting line of dialogue between Michael Corleone and Tom Hagen, his half-brother of sorts and family...