Sep 4, 2019 | Leadership, Strategy
Over a long career, I have seen many successes, and just as many, if not more, failures. In both cases, there are a small number of common factors. The successes all have most, if not all, of the factors below, and the failures are typified by their absence. Be...
Nov 7, 2018 | Management, Strategy
Zombies are the fictional ‘living dead’. A zombie business model is one that might still be alive, but may as well be dead, unless there is radical surgery undertaken. Blockbuster was a zombie model, happily making money while Netflix emerged from...
Jan 11, 2018 | Change, Governance, Strategy
Our world is being broken into bits, powered by algorithms, few things appear to be immune to the pervasive intrusion. One that has been largely immune is strategy development, a subjective hold-out in a world of programmatic automation. Einstein told us that...
Dec 11, 2017 | Change, Governance, Management
The November 2017 issue of the magazine of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) contains a very insightful and useful article by Phil Ruthven dealing with the industry cycles that IBIS research has been cataloguing for 40 years. Ruthven makes the...
