Today’s winning capabilities are tomorrow’s table stakes. Organizations must identify what capabilities world-class competitors will possess in the future and begin to invest now. These competencies are the foundation on…
Business Leaders need to make critical decisions that will set their organization up for success many years into the future.With limited and imperfect information, business leaders must pack and plan…
The stark tale of gain and loss underscores a new operating reality confronting companies everywhere: Drivers of earnings, definitions of risk, underlying risk interdependencies, and ways to manage them have…
Why should you enter into a joint venture? Why should you try something you’ve never tried before and risk failure? Why should you take time from your core business to…
Data is set to become a big “currency” for businesses, with value to buy, sell or lose. Beyond the disruptions we have seen caused by next generation technology, new processes,…
Almost every company shifts into overdrive to create ‘smart’ products, to turn a product business into a service business, to create new business models or to reach out beyond their…
3M Corporation. 3M was awarded the US government’s highest award for innovation, the National Medal of Technology. Over a 20-year period, 3M’s gross margin averaged 51% and the company’s return…
Different size organizations across all industries are actively adopting and implementing DevOps practices to gain and maintain a lasting business advantage over their competitors. Making the transition to a DevOps…
Innovation and efficiency sometimes clash, especially when innovative moves spark big changes and uncertainty. There are several tips for leaders to find the perfect balance between efficiency and innovation: Top-down…
Big enterprises are acutely aware of the need to avoid mission-critical risks when working with smaller startups that can move more quickly and have a lot less to lose. Learning,…
Innovation is so vital for survival that it must be a regular topic item on the agenda of company board meetings. If you have not had a fundamental conversation about…
When disruption does affect a company, it’s frequently because the enterprise was already vulnerable in some fundamental way; moreover, many incumbent companies accelerate their decline through their efforts to…
IDC released a forecast in the third quarter of 2016 that showed that the big data and analytics market hitting double digit year-on-year growth rates. If this is true, then…
The IT business is drastically different from 20 years ago, yet it seems to be plagued New technology and practices such as cloud computing, DevOps, and data analytics are…
Do successful startups share a common formula for reaching the top? If innovation is so tough to replicate, why do companies like AirBnB, Lyft and Amazon seem to follow a…
Unless your business strategy is to be a fast-follower (an increasingly risky and dangerous strategy), you invariably have markets or market segments in which your objective is to be the…
A group of major banks; UBS, Deutsche Bank, Santander and BNY Mellon, Barclays, Credit Suisse, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, HSBC, MUFG and State Street, have teamed up to develop…
Ambitious Fintech startups had the vision to democratize finance and break the power of banks. In recent years, the disruptive stance gave way to a collaborative one. Banking is no…
European Union’s Revised Payment Service Directive (PSD2) will come into force within six months. This directive would enable what those in the fintech world call “open banking”, by giving third…
Pre-2008, everyone trusted that banks would protect their interests and maintain transparency, but the financial crisis changed it all. As trust in banks was shattered, new technologies emerged from the…