Why?
Why?

Life’s not a journey!

Why do we think that life is a journey with some great destination? Our views are distorted by an upbringing that deprived us of a …

Built to Thrive, one step closer to publication…

At the very onset of the book, I am met with my biggest challenge – teaching a concept that demands an untutored state of mind. …

Do you know how your innovation initiatives will impact your business?

Can improvement initiatives be classified as innovation opportunities? Where does your six sigma projects fit into your overall change program? I found that most organizations …

Why do we find it difficult to develop new ideas to fruition?

New ideas are tough to implement in an environment where people believe that their current business model (with their resulting operating model) is economically sound. …

What is the value of the individual in a socially integrated world?

Humans play an interesting role in this technology enabled socially integrated world. Making sense of how to leverage this enablement is paramount in building the …

The revolutionaries that do not care about the growth plans and commercial strategies of the incumbents…

How do you compete against revolutionaries? Figure out what to disrupt first, then create the operating model; figure the business model out as you go. …

Do we really understand the mega-waves of change?

History is never objectively recorded. It’s interpreted, contextual, perceptive, and generally subjective. The future is never reasoned about objectively. We make extrapolations, projections, and form …

“Built to Thrive” the book…

Built to Thrive has been a long project. We are in the final phase of getting to publication. So, I will over the next 30 …

Looking ahead into 2011 where do we see ourselves?

I have dedicated much of my thinking to what I perceive is happening in the landscape around me. Ideas of innovation seem to meet me …

From risk to uncertainty and the pace of innovation

Thomas Homer-Dixon wrote a piece on the 19th of March 2008 called “From Risk to Uncertainty”. He reasons that the current problems in the world …