🟢 The global alignment trap: why managerial transformation stalls
This week, I wanted to share a recent article that one of
Innovation Culture
Nurturing and scaling a purposeful innovation culture while building effective leadership.
🟢 Why nothing gets delivered after your Strategyzer workshop
Oh boy, here we go...
🟢 'Thinking in Bets': a handbook for innovation portfolio decisions
Bad timing on my part; this is a book I should have recommended as a summer read. Now we are all back at our desks, but hey, it reads just as well on a Tuesday evening in September!
🟢 Why classic innovation frameworks fail in our current chaotic markets
Most industrial innovation units still operate with ideas and tools from the
Tim Cook and Operational Innovation
It's difficult not to address Tim Cook's semi-
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.
The value of design
I'm not going to lie, it's been the
You're not building an innovation pipeline; you're sealing yourself in a tunnel out of options.
When you build an innovation pipeline, you’re often confusing linear efficiency
Brompton: chaos-proofing with a steady premium strategy
A steady, small giant
Brompton is a UK-based bike company. Its
Innovation groundhog day: Why corporations keep forgetting what they learn
Too many corporations treat innovation like a Groundhog Day loop—rotating junior teams every two years, erasing hard-earned insights, and wondering why nothing sticks. Unlike finance or R&D, innovation is rarely given the strategic continuity it needs to deliver real impact.
A talk about Kodak...
Yesterday, I was interviewed by André, a Master’s student in Lisbon, about Kodak vs. Fujifilm as a lens to explore why some companies survive strategic shifts while others don’t. His sharp questions led to a focused discussion. Here’s a condensed transcript of the key points.
How many times can you say 'mistake' to your board?
A powerful statement from Warren Buffett, writing Berkshire Hathaway's annual