Disruption is on Decline
I think it's because of org structure and approval processes. Implications for marketing organizations abound.
Innovation
15 Posts
The Trouble With Innovation
Several years and one company ago, I found myself in a mid-project meeting with a group of clients from a large hospitality company. We were sat in an innovation room that could have been plucked directly from the d.School – every single furnishing came from their catalog. Sitting at the
Amazon & Achievement
Using Amazon as a way to understand what works, what doesn’t, and what’s got to change.
21 Rules for Lab Development
Innovation Labs need rules. Here are 21 that I documented in 2014 during my work inside and alongside four different such labs. They work!
Five Strategy Things N° 5
Chick-Fil-A; The Agency Problem; NFL broadcasters; The Unsexy Side of Responsiveness; Amazon Fulfillment Centers
Five Strategy Things N° 4
Super Bowl spending; Robots; Defining Strategy; Loyalty Cards r Bad; Disruption & Airbnb; How to win championships.
Complex Good
Build discoverable complexity (otherwise known as interestingness) into your business and brand.
Forty Business Tips
These are all really two tips: focus on service and execution; if it’s not working, get out.
Objection Criteria & Strategy Reviews
Along with a few other folks in the UC “Management” crew, I spent Monday and Tuesday learning about Holacracy. It’s an interesting organizing idea that deserves a much longer set of posts, but the five-second version is that it’s a explicitly structured, distributed-authority, adaptive decision-making system that aims
Aviation: Not Easy
From the chronicles of “Easier Said Than Done, Airline Edition”: five lessons on innovation and the future of organizing.
The Awesome Science of Cheetos
Lots of interesting stuff lately on the internet about food. The first is from the trailing end of a meandering piece on The Awl about a “McWorld” in Times Square. The author is suggesting the eponymous fast-food giant build a Disneyland/Mecca for Big Mac lovers in NYC, with a
Five Strategy Things N° 3
Guess the source of this slide; Empathy; Seinfeld on Jokecraft; Flight Manual for the U2; Interestingness defined.