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CDOs Value to Business Growth and Transformation
Why do companies with Chief Digital Officers underperform similar organizations without CDOs? Often the role (and a department under the CDO) are established to 'transform the business' by leading innovation projects, [...]
Deliver Customer Value to Build Loyalty
Increasing global competition, ubiquitous access to a plethora of choices, personalized marketing and new consumer buying habits are making customer loyalty more critical and difficult for all organizations. The key to [...]
Stop Talking Start Innovating
Stop talking, start innovating Achieving Success Silicon Valley Style Talk about innovation is everywhere – in board rooms, conferences, employee meetings and university classes. In 2019, it is estimated that billions [...]
Decide, move, innovate Silicon Valley Style
Corporate innovation initiatives are top of mind for executives – but often slowed due to long decision processes and planning. Innovation is about trying something and being willing to suffer the [...]
Where are the unicorns?
There are 309 private companies around the world valued at $1B+ as of 1/18/2019. Collectively these companies are worth as much as $1,085B and have raised a combined total of nearly $261B. Last year, 111 [...]
Innovation Requires Foresight – Skate to Where Puck is Going
Innovation is all about anticipating future needs then designing, piloting and scaling new solutions to address the tomorrow’s challenges. Successful business leaders and entrepreneurs require foresight into the minds, concerns and [...]
Embrace Change for Success in 2109
New year is time to embrace change. Todays rapid growth in AI, compute power, ubiquity of IOT combined with changing customer behavior will disrupt all traditional businesses. Now is the time [...]
Innovation Lessons from Cirque du Soliel
Successful innovation requires agility to address changing customer needs and competitive threats; Creativity to design new solutions to future problems and empowerment of team members – to adapt, fail and take [...]
Are you ready to be a Super Hero in 2019?
Super Hero’s are engaged, empowered and ready to make an impact this year. However, recent studies show that over 70% of people feel - little or no involvement or engagement in [...]
Digitalization: The Path to Employee Engagement
The Robots are Here: Good news - for employees? While robots which vacuum the carpet, mow the lawn or deliver lunch are cute time savers, their possible entry into the workplace [...]
Humans vs Machines: Role of People in Digital World
Rapid advances in AI, machine learning, robotics have proven to create greater […]
Success in Changing World
Climate change, political unrest, and corporate disruption are today’s reality. […]