The Paradigm Shift That Caught Us By Surprise

Your biggest risk isn’t failure; it’s sustained mediocrity (Wroblewski, 2017). This quote applies today more than ever as disruption is front and center for many businesses. Here are some examples of the paradigm shift, which caught most of us by surprise. Uber –...

Change and Innovation: Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone

  In 1975, a researcher named Steven Sasson, working for Eastman Kodak built the first digital camera. He saw the potential for this new device and told executives it would compete with film in the next 15-20 years. Eastman Kodak then developed the first...

6 Degrees of Separation

  Forty five years ago Stanley Milgram mailed out parcels to one hundred people in Omaha, NE working on his “six degrees of separation”. His whimsical method gave him the theory but not the proof. That changed in 2011 when the scale of Facebook proved that he was...

Modernize Your Culture to Improve Business Strategy

  “Culture beats strategy, so much that culture is strategy”  – Seth Godin Culture defines a company – what it does, how it adds value, and how it grows a customer base. A culture that has the ability to deliver change and add value as a best...

Developing Advanced Insights in a Complex Environment

Never assume your brand. Recently 3G Capital/Kraft Heinz made news with a $15B write down, drop in stock price of 27% . This is another example of not keeping an ear to the market, solely focusing on cost cutting via zero based budgeting, and missing key signals in...