Futurist Roy Amara stated, “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” This captures the hype when new tech is played out in the press, followed by disillusionment when it’s not...
Is your business moving the needle, experimenting with new ideas/technologies or just playing it safe for another year? Many companies are tied to old practices that are comfortable, for example, a company can get better at closing the books every period, tying up...
Never assume your brand. Recently 3G Capital/Kraft Heinz made news with a $15B write down, drop in stock price of 27% . This is another example of not keeping an ear to the market, solely focusing on cost cutting via zero based budgeting, and missing key signals in...
“Culture beats strategy, so much that culture is strategy” – Seth Godin Culture defines a company – what it does, how it adds value, and how it grows a customer base. A culture that has the ability to deliver change and add value as a best...
Forty five years ago Stanley Milgram mailed out parcels to one hundred people in Omaha, NE working on his “six degrees of separation”. His whimsical method gave him the theory but not the proof. That changed in 2011 when the scale of Facebook proved that he was...
