Transformation—whether at a corporation, a small company, a startup, a university, or a nonprofit—requires a swing between bursts of inspiration and spadework. Here’s a guide to the best way to do powerful sprints (with bursts of inspiration) in parallel with the...
For years, in devising growth strategies for our organizations, we’ve been shifting our focus from a siloed perspective to an interconnected ecosystem approach. And, today, we’re positioned to evolve from the initial waves of ecosystems—organized around profit and...
Lip Service Kills Innovation. Here’s how to spot it and what to do about it. It had been 18 months since we began the digital transformation initiative and the move to get everyone in the company onto the same page had gone swimmingly. The initial design stage yielded...
It was the culmination of a great, year-long experience. Teams from all over the world from inside a large technology company had submitted winning initiatives to create great customer experiences, address grand challenges, and take our technology to the next level....
We must resist the temptation to settle.Let’s take business strategy to a new level of impact. At a time when we’ve just weathered a multi-year pandemic, in an economic environment that signals challenges ahead, and at a moment when employees’ lives have been in a...