Innovation3 min read
When You Gotta Go -:) P&g Toilet Database
P&G's toilet finder app is clever but lacks impact. True innovation would address global needs and sustainability.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
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Leadership4 min read
When Things Change, Look at New Competitors – Sears, Walgreen, Best Buy
the value of having friends hosting TV shows was clear. Sears went from $30 to nearly $200/share on the strength of Cramer's chronic recommendation.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership1 min read
When They Do What You Can’t
The more adaptable Wendy’s has demonstrated its ability to one-up McDonald’s for years.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Strategy5 min read
When Should You Collaborate and When Should You Compete?
The philosopher Martin Heidegger argued that technological advancement is a process of revealing and building. Scientists reveal new phenomena through exploration and experiment and then later engineers figure out how to channel these phenomena to some specific use
Greg Satell · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
When Should Steve Ballmer Be Fired? – Microsoft
The XBox has been a yawn, far from breaking even on the massive investments.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
When Less is More?
Instead of putting money into more stores, management would start buying back shares in order to reduce the size of the equity pool
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
When Less is More.2
The longer out the timeline, the more bearish I am. Strategy sees its results long-term rather than short-term, so given more time the impact becomes more evident
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
When Headlines Say It All
The demand for travel and cars hasn’t declined – but you’d think so if you listened to executives from United and GM.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
When Giants Start Clubbing
the world’s biggest retailer has the world’s biggest Lock-in, and they will do anything they can think of to keep their Success Formula unchanged.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation3 min read
When Disruptive Innovation Gets Disrupted
A strong technical foundation and effective knowledge management are essential for successfully executing disruptive innovations.
Anthony Mills · 29 April 2025
Innovation3 min read
When D&e Works
Defend & Extend (D&E) management thrives in growing markets, but without innovation, stalls when shifts occur.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership5 min read
When D&e Doesn’t Work
The airline leaders aren’t stupid (even though it may appear that way to us travelers sometimes). Instead they are Locked-in to the point they have limited their options for solutions to a very few – which may not save them.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Culture4 min read
When Belief is Not Enough
The FCA sums this up in their TCF guidelines which state that “Treating customers fairly (TCF) remains central to our expectations of firms’ conduct, that firms put the well-being of customers at the heart of how they run their businesses.
Cris Beswick · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
What’s the Future for Chrysler? Fiat?
the new CEO appears to have stepped in and made significant changes in the organization structure, as well as the product line-up at Chrysler.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Strategy4 min read
What’s the Focus of Your Strategy Conversations?
Strategic conversations should revolve around three questions:
Marc Sniukas · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
What’s in a Name?
the best newspapers, who have the best news bureaus, would be leaders in taking news to the web.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Strategy11 min read
What’s Wrong with Strategy?
The criticism as regards the process of current strategy practice revolves around two main themes
Marc Sniukas · 29 April 2025
Leadership5 min read
What’s Wrong at the U.s. Postal Service – Market Shift
The Post Office understands what it must do, and does it extremely efficiently.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership4 min read
What’s Wrong With Bailouts – B of a, Citibank, Wells Fargo,
The bail out probably saved America, and the world, from an economic calamity that would have pushed millions more into unemployment and exacerbated falling asset values.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership5 min read
What’s Really Happening With United’s Board?
United Continental Holdings is the most recent public company to come under attack by hedge funds
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Strategy1 min read
WhatsApp: Are the days of SMSing numbered?
Gabor George Burt · 29 April 2025
Innovation4 min read
What's Your Organization's Innovation Effort Look Like?
Teresa Spangler · 29 April 2025
Culture10 min read
What's In Your Sandbox?
In the one camp, we have the Lean Startup model, which directs us to learn fast by failing fast via a Minimum Viable Product, or MVP.
Anthony Mills · 29 April 2025
Leadership5 min read
What to Do With Gm and Ford?
The reality is that both companies are on the brink of failure – and no one believes they can survive without some sort of government bailout.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025