In North America, the fall season can only mean two things: the time of year when kids head back to school and my Badgers & Green Bay Packers are ready to go. Traditionally, there are two big cycles of energy release in the workplace: in January when the new year arrives and the days begin […]
Note: This is the fifth of a 6-part series, How to Harness the Power of Change Waves to Accelerate Growth. In this post, I continue my focus on understanding what your organization can do internally to capitalize on external change cycles. It is essential to know your organization’s exact position in its internal change cycle. […]
This is the third in a series of posts about using change waves to accelerate growth (here’s the first, and the second). Mapping in Real-time I’ve been using historical examples to make the case that change waves start with discoveries decades before they break as large-scale business disruptors. In most cases, it is possible to […]
Note: This is the second of a 6-part series on How to Harness the Power of Change Waves to Accelerate Growth (here’s the first). I invite you to add this series of posts to your reading list. (better yet, subscribe at right to have all future posts sent to your inbox). A note of thanks to Venkatesh […]
Note: This is the first of a 6-part series on How to Harness the Power of Change Waves to Accelerate Growth. Disruption is the new norm. There’s no doubt that technological and economic disruptions are coming faster than ever before in human history. Robert Safian once wrote in Fast Company that “the pace of […]
In my ebook, the Growth Zone, I detail the four major strategic directions available to companies that are seeking growth. Quadrant 1: the Optimization Zone – This is where a company improves effectiveness and efficiency of its core offerings. In other words, the existing uses of your product by existing customers. Quadrant 2: the Growth Zone – […]
One of the great things about the technology business is that you invent your company’s assets by harnessing the global brain power of your enterprise. A few years back, Strategy+Business published their annual survey of the 1000 companies in the world that spent the most on R&D. What they found has important implications for innovators […]
As a young product manager in the mid-90’s, I was sipping champagne and enjoying company cafeteria cake in Finland with the executive team of a multinational cell phone company. We were celebrating their new cell phone, whose battery life was measured in weeks, not days. But as I sipped my champagne from a plastic cup, […]
