A Better Way to Think About Your Business Model
The business model canvas — as opposed to the traditional, intricate business plan — helps organizations conduct structured, tangible, and strategic conversations around new businesses or existing ones. Leading global companies like GE, P&G, and Nestlé use the canvas to manage strategy or create new growth engines, while start-ups use it in their search for [...]
Free Yourself from Conventional Thinking
Groundbreaking ideas are no longer a luxury when success is contingent upon an organization’s ability to adapt, innovative, and improve. We need look no further than Kodak, Sears, or Sony for validation that status-quo thinking is the fast-track to failure. How, then, can organizations break free of conventional thinking to spark creativity? Similar Products Business [...]
The Ripple Effects You Create as a Manager
Each one of us holds a set of beliefs and attitudes — a mindset — that determines how we interpret and respond to situations. That mindset shapes how we interact with others, and therefore it also affects the people we work with — in ways both subtle and profound. A person with a distrustful mindset, [...]
Mpesa
In April 2007, following a student software development project from kenya, Safaricom launched a new mobile phone based payment and money transfer service, known as M-Pesa.
Social Media as Modern Sorcery
Those who feel wronged by corporations have increasingly taken to social media to get their revenge. For business, this represents a threat — and an opportunity — that obviously can’t be ignored. A 2012 Nielsen survey found that people value advice from online peers on both what to buy as well as what to avoid. [...]
Entrepreneur Profile: Julia Levy ’11, Culture Craver
Culture Craver, co-founded by Julia Levy ’11, is a tech startup aiming to transform the way people discover culture. Levy, together with her business partner, constantly work to think of ways to improve Culture Craver’s interactive platform. “We work to make people smarter and savvier about culture,” said Levy “and help them to enjoy more [...]
Cloud Analytics Playbook
An enormous amount of valuable information is out there, waiting to be transformed into differentiating services. Booz Allen Hamilton uses its Cloud Analytics Reference Architecture to build technology infrastructures that can withstand the weight of massive datasets–and deliver the deep insights organizations need to drive innovation. Go to Source Similar Products Enterprise Cloud Computing: Technology, [...]
Do You Really Need to Innovate?
Not all problems call for an innovation. Perhaps what you’re already doing is fine and still works for the situation you will face in the foreseeable future. In that case, you don’t need creative strategy. But those cases are rare. The business world changes fast, so if you think your current strategy needs no changes [...]
From Intuition to Creation
What is creative strategy? It’s a classic case of “theory to practice.” My previous book, Strategic Intuition , laid out the theory. It explained the science of how creative ideas happen in the human mind and documented how successful innovators actually came up with their innovations. This new book, Creative Strategy , is the practice: [...]
The World Economy: What Now?
February 13, 2013 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. This special symposium will size up growth prospects and risk factors in major economies and explore creative thinking on the rising demand for new governance in global financial institutions. With new leadership installed in several major countries, the panel will offer predictions — and warnings — for what [...]
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