So the annual meeting in Davos is currently taking place. Those of us who are peering through the barbed wire trying to understand and pick up on current thinking by many of our global leaders are scratching our heads, wondering We hope we can deepen our understanding of these trends, wanting Global leaders to turn … Continue reading “When to Act? Davos is Back!”
Organizations have been focused for far too long on the importance of financial capital but forget it is the sum of all their capitals that really counts. The combined capitals determine and drive organizations’ destinies. We are caught in a constant focus upon our achieving a return on our (financial) capital as our measuring criteria. … Continue reading “Struggling with the sums of our capital”
How do we engage within our own internal organizational communities to shifting attitudes and think in different, more responsible ways? How do we communicate our sense of purpose to the outside world? How do we integrate all the activities we are (or should be) undertaking as responsible leaders? Are we working towards understanding the material … Continue reading “Shifting attitudes, think responsibly.”
Don’t let anyone tell you it is easy to run your own business, it is far from that. I thought I’d write about what and where it has meaning for me in this “finding our true purpose”. Here are some of my thoughts, some a little raw, others well-baked, even some half-baked!. Running your own … Continue reading “Finding our true purpose”
So we all know a standard company balance sheet has three parts: assets, liabilities and ownership equity. The accounting equation states assets and liabilities are known as equity or net worth and this net worth must equal assets minus liabilities. The balance sheet summarises the present position or last audited position. Well in the Business … Continue reading “The Understated Back-End of the Business Model Canvas.”
Business models both in new designs and it management have become centre stage in many of our existing organizations’ thinking. The need is not just too simply find new growth through new business models but to ‘react and adapt’ those existing business model designs that are in place, to catch-all the emerging possibilities that are … Continue reading “The (Re)birth of the Architect for the Business Model Design”
Continuing in the series on knowledge exchanges and education for innovation. Part two – what needs to improve in innovation? I asked in the first part of this series of blogs –How do we advance the learning needed for innovation? So first, do we (all) agree that we do need to improve the education around … Continue reading “The real value of knowledge exchange”
We can often be asked “what is the ROI on this particular innovation or alternatively, on our innovating activity?” This questioning increases particularly when there grows even more uncertainties in marketplaces, when you are forced into making tougher investment decisions, in allocating resources, in adjusting a strategy to meet changing circumstances. Then you get the … Continue reading “What is the missing cost of not innovating?”
Sometimes you would be amazed at the underlying tensions that occur when you get into those discussions around the board table on what and where innovation contributes to strategic direction. Even managing the present portfolio of innovation initiatives gets caught up in these underlying tensions as it becomes another opportunity to open up the old … Continue reading “Lingering dogma, fixed mindsets, tensions and conflicting needs”
This is one of those rants occasionally I feel a real need to express. Forgive me, normal service will be resumed after this ‘break’. Coffee in hand, soapbox set up, let me begin. Today, we are all struggling to transform ourselves in our businesses, even just within ourselves, to adjust to the current economic difficulties … Continue reading “Are we all upside down?”
