Strategy Elegantly downselling: Apple and the MacBook Neo Yesterday, Apple announced the MacBook Neo, and most analysts commented on its
Culture The Ford EV debacle is all about how strategy is always downstream to culture Ford just wrote down $19.5 billion, killed their new flagship F-150 Lightning after only three years of production, and is now spending another $7 billion to scrap their whole EV strategy. If it's not the most expensive industrial pivot failure in recent automotive history, we're close enough.
Newsletter 🟢 Our digital framework is now interactive This is going to be a short edition of the newsletter, but there's been quite a lot of work to give you an interactive version of one of our key frameworks. Hope you'll enjoy it!
Hot Takes Is AI destroying tech jobs? Not really. Today, you will hear about Block and how its CEO (Jack Dorsey)
Newsletter 🟢 Salesforce is going nowhere There's been quite a commotion among legacy software companies like Salesforce and Oracle, with huge market-cap drops last week after some resounding announcements of new AI capabilities. Mostly, this is overblown. Here's why...
Strategy How to reboot your corporate incubator In 2023, for TechSummit Amsterdam, I was presenting a keynote about proper strategies for rebooting your typical corporate incubator. Everything I presented is still, I believe, pretty much on the table.
Newsletter 🟢 Big corps can't innovate? Think again. This week, I'm getting a bit tired of hearing that innovation centers in big corps are useless. Let me push back on this a bit.
Hot Takes How to know if your innovation method, tool, workshop, framework, or book works? When using it or applying it to a real innovation project, it
Newsletter 🟢 The AI bubble eats incumbent software giants While we were waiting for an AI bubble burst, in two brutal sessions, the market ended up punishing the old digital economy for a different fear: that AI was about to replace parts of its business model sooner than expected.