Answering cold calls with confidence
I remember getting a cold call from Dropbox one day. They had done an analysis of accounts that used our corporate email address as a primary login for…
I remember getting a cold call from Dropbox one day. They had done an analysis of accounts that used our corporate email address as a primary login for…
Are culture and strategy interdependent, interrelated, or intertwined? Does anyone really know? I often envision culture and strategy sitting in the m…
Robotic Process Automation is the new star in the digitalization sky. Forrester predicts that the RPA industry will increase 10 times in the next five …
Being a woman in today’s world can be a challenge in itself; we are wives, mothers, nurturers, bosses, subordinates, friends, nurturers and instigators…
Nowhere is prioritization as important a skill as for the people at the very top of an organization. Most good executives are very conscious of how the…
What will tomorrow bring? I am a fan of Peter Hinssen. His “The network always wins” is brilliant. The key message from that book is clock speed. In h…
Getting the best out of your idea management system (IMS) requires some planning and know-how, and a well thought through approach will definitely yiel…
Innovation seems to be one of those few evergreen words. It has never gone out of fashion as it is so intertwined with humankind’s development. So in t…
Sometimes even the most bizarre ideas can turn out great. Think of AirBnb and Uber, classic examples of successful business ideas that people were scep…
When I was first considering to become an entrepreneur some six years ago, I had lots of different business ideas. However, none of them just felt righ…
Some meetings go better than others, as we all know. Some time ago, I was presenting the results of a research project for a client, and was talking ab…
During the last few decades we have lost touch with what exactly is the kind of game that we are playing, when we go to work. It is time to understand…
Get innovation rolling: discover your Wheel Inbetween In brief… The problem Everyone knows that innovation is vital, and there is lots of great publ…
In this current global market, large corporate companies have seen first-hand their industries disrupted by innovative startups. Startups that bring ne…
Sustainable competitive advantage? Seriously? In our time? Most business leaders I talk to agree that the days of sustainable competitive advantage ar…
Digitalisation is a mega trend that will influence the building of future society. As a mega trend, digitalisation has the ability to find ways to bypa…
This article is based on a talk I gave at Bristech in December 2018: ‘Talking Tech: the Art and Science of Communicating Complex Ideas’. By all accoun…
If you hang out with dreamers and innovators for any length of time, you hear about Edison’s 1000 failures. There are countless anecdotes about the yea…
We really do have this compelling need to have a new cycle of innovation design. A more integrated solution that takes our understanding of innovation …
No-one will be surprised to learn that start-ups and small businesses in the United Kingdom play a crucial role in growing the domestic economy. In fa…