Nov 7, 2018 | Management, Strategy
Zombies are the fictional ‘living dead’. A zombie business model is one that might still be alive, but may as well be dead, unless there is radical surgery undertaken. Blockbuster was a zombie model, happily making money while Netflix emerged from...
Jan 11, 2018 | Change, Governance, Strategy
Our world is being broken into bits, powered by algorithms, few things appear to be immune to the pervasive intrusion. One that has been largely immune is strategy development, a subjective hold-out in a world of programmatic automation. Einstein told us that...
Dec 11, 2017 | Change, Governance, Management
The November 2017 issue of the magazine of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) contains a very insightful and useful article by Phil Ruthven dealing with the industry cycles that IBIS research has been cataloguing for 40 years. Ruthven makes the...
Sep 26, 2017 | Governance, Management, Strategy
For the last 22 years since leaving corporate life, I have worked at the intersection of Revenue generation, Operations and Performance improvement of medium sized manufacturing businesses. My entry point is almost always sales and marketing. Businesses are...
Jun 13, 2017 | Change, Governance, Marketing
Creating a successful marketing program is like putting together a 10,000 piece jigsaw, with two significant differences. A jigsaw only goes together one way, every piece fits into its neighbours in a unique way, whereas a marketing program has an infinite number of...
