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Corporate Incubators: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

September 7, 2017

Innovate! Innovate! Innovate! This mantra of Silicon Valley is…

Back to Day One

August 1, 2017

After one year of exciting and challenging work, Laurence is…

GPDF17 – A Lifetime Opportunity for Entrepreneurs

July 20, 2017

This is our contribution to the Global Peter Drucker Form (GPDF).…

Infinitely Scale Your Business

July 4, 2017

Have you ever wondered how some companies succeed in growing…

The Future of Businesses – Marketplaces of Shared Capabilities

June 22, 2017

Some days ago, we read about Amazon's latest acquisition, Whole…

Why Businesses Need to Master Crossover Innovation – NOW

June 16, 2017

Most businesses today base their operations on the exploitation…

The Quest for Organizational Agility in a Dynamic World

June 7, 2017

Companies in all markets begin to feel the pressures of a dynamic…

Book Announcement Future Legends

Book Announcement: Future Legends – Business in Hyper-Dynamic Markets

May 8, 2017

We are proud to announce our upcoming book Future Legends –…

Announcing co-shift – Building connected business

January 25, 2017

"The best way to predict the future is to build it" (Abraham…

Dancing with PlatformsNovember 30, 2021 - 9:59 am
Digital platforms and their ecosystems are outgrowing all other businesses, usurping their market position, commoditizing their products, slowly squeezing them out of negotiating power and hijacking their profits. Or not? Is there a way to escape their grasp? Some kind of strategy for long-term success? How about this: Stop dancing around them. Dance with them instead.
Making Management Great AgainNovember 30, 2020 - 11:43 am
Management, as taught at business schools, is on the way to irrelevance. Today it no longer solves problems. It creates them. So-called “best practices” of management have caused a multitude of problems that only became apparent with a delay of decades, but now they are making themselves felt with force. They fall short in dynamic market environments. They stifle innovation with bureaucracy and rigid processes.
Digital Transformation Bootcamps statt BeratungJanuary 31, 2020 - 12:22 pm
Viele Firmen schieben die Digitale Transformation auf, weil sich die Unternehmensführung in dem neuen Thema unsicher ist. Je stärker sie sich damit auseinandersetzt, desto größer wird das Unbehagen: Eine Flut an Publikationen, Tools, Methoden, immer neuen technologischen Schlagwörtern und Beratern wetteifert um Aufmerksamkeit und Geld. Da gerät die fachliche Kompetenz schnell an die Grenze, die Geduld zur vertieften Auseinandersetzung aber noch eher.
Kein Wunder also, dass viele Firmen sich der Digitalen Transformation gerne mit extern zugekaufter Kompetenz nähern. Sei es durch die Anstellung eines Digitalen Experten oder durch das temporäre Engagement von Beratern. Wenn das Thema dann an diese delegiert ist, kann sich die Unternehmensführung wieder auf ihr normales Geschäft konzentrieren.
Mit dieser Haltung wird jedoch eine große Chance vertan. Digitale Transformation betrifft den Kern des Geschäfts und kann nicht erfolgreich delegiert werden. Sie erfordert die volle Aufmerksamkeit der Führung. Digitale Transformation heißt, auf allen Ebenen im Unternehmen zu lernen, wie man sein Geschäft erfolgreich verändert. Klassische Beratungsansätze helfen dabei wenig. Eine neuartige Alternative sind Bootcamps. Warum sind Bootcamps wirkungsvoller?
Digitalization or Transformation?December 23, 2019 - 1:35 pm
There is a world of difference between increasing efficiency in existing business and developing the company for future business. And yet these approaches are mixed up in the discussions surrounding digitalization and digital transformation. As a result, ideas and expectations diverge accordingly. And there is correspondingly great uncertainty about the extent and significance for one’s own company. This article provides a very pragmatic distinction between digitalization and digital transformation and uses examples to show how implementation can be successful.