Disruption is on Decline
I think it's because of org structure and approval processes. Implications for marketing organizations abound.
Topic
Innovation
A collection of 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.