Innovation2 min read
The Devil We Know
One reason is that innovation requires venturing into the unknown, what we call “white space.”
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
CEO / Managing Partner - Spark Partners
Adam Hartung
I currently serve as the CEO of three companies: Content Laboratory (a content services company,) Spark Partners (a growth strategy firm offering assessments, strategy consulting and on-line self-administered revenue growth tools,) and Soparfilm Energy (an oil & gas exploration & production investment company.) Over the last thirty years, I have served on multiple boards, including Audit Chair for a NASDAQ traded company, and advised boards of directors on managing for disruptions and promoting innovation into corporate management.
My passion is public speaking on the importance of growth, innovation and strategy to succeed. As a keynote speaker I have been invited to over 1,000 leadership events, both multi-company and single company. My portfolio includes speeches, presentations, workshops and executive coaching on how to achieve faster growth from higher levels of innovation driven by trends.
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Strategy8 min read
The Decline and Fall of Chicago and Illinois
The state was still considerably dependent on old-line agriculture/food giants, those businesses were crumbling and unlikely to recover as the economy shifted.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Culture8 min read
The Decline And Fall Of Chicago And Illinois
Chicago is the worst residential real estate market of any large city in America.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership6 min read
The Day Tv Died – Winners and Losers (Comcast, Disney, Cbs)
Losers, and winners, will be varied – and not entirely obvious. Firstly, a look at those trying to maintain the status quo, and likely to lose the most.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
The Cost of Lock-in
In Philadelphia Wal-Mart’s Success Formula cost the company $62.3million, on top of a previous award of $78.5million, as a judge ordered the company to pay workers for its labor practices
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
The Cost of Defend & Extend – Microsoft, Apple, Google, Ibm, Cisco, Dell, Hp
The breakthrough is done, and the investments on variations, derivatives and enhancements are "engineering" as opposed to "science" so the development is supposedly more easily planned, the costs better understood and the returns more predictable.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Practice6 min read
The Case for Trian's Nelson Peltz Joining P&G's Board
P&G is dead set against adding Peltz, saying he would disrupt the board, and the company, in negative ways.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation5 min read
The Case for Buying Netflix. Really.
Netflix’s shift from DVDs to streaming is crucial for long-term success, despite poor communication and stock drops, making it a potential buy for long-term investors.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership7 min read
The Big Shift – Gm, Chrysler, Ford
The reorganizing of Ford, and bankruptcy of Chrysler will be remembered, but not likely with the impact of GM filing bankruptcy.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation6 min read
The 9 Reasons Why Amazon Buying Whole Foods is a Good Idea
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership6 min read
The 5 Ways Chairman Lampert Destroyed Sears’ Value
The brand is now so tarnished that Sears Holdings is writing down the value of the Sears name by another $200million – reducing intangible value from the $4B at origination in 2004 to under $2B.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation7 min read
The 5 Stocks You Should Buy This Week
Stocks are starting 2016 horribly. To put it mildly.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation2 min read
The 5 Mph Bullet
In 1980 Chairman Roger Smith of GM saw that GM’s future was in jeapardy.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership4 min read
The 4 Reasons Verizon Should Buy Yahoo
The current CEO Mayer and her team, after months of accomplishing nothing to improve Yahoo’s competitiveness and growth prospects, is now out of ideas.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership5 min read
The 10 Telltale Signs of Future Troubles for Walmart
In March, 2008 WalMart sued a brain damaged employee. The employee was brain damaged by a truck accident.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation4 min read
The #1 Real Estate Stock to Own is Built on Trends – Alexandria Real Estate Equities
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership5 min read
That Great Big Sucking Sound
The amazing thing was that anyone ever believed this acqisition was going to be good for anyone.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Investment3 min read
Thanksgiving Travel- Airlines Struggle to Profit
United was on the brink of failure last summer as jet fuel prices skyrocketed.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation6 min read
Tesla is Smarter Than Other Auto Companies
Tesla is poised to succeed by capitalizing on trends that favor direct-to-consumer sales and challenging outdated dealer regulations, much like how Apple transformed retail with its own stores.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership4 min read
Tesla Model 3 – This is What a “game Changer” Looks Like
Tesla has historically been selling much more expensive cars, the Model S being its big seller in 2015
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership1 min read
Telltales of Trouble
Management often gives the most glaring signs of a telltale problem
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
Take the Money and Run
Wrigley is well known for its chewing gum – a no growth business at best. In 2005 Wrigley acquired the candy business from Kraft, including Altoids and Lifesavers.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership14 min read
Take Time to Read ‘time Talent Energy,’ by Mankins and Garton
The CFO is frequently the second most powerful individual, behind only the CEO.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership7 min read
Take Time to Read 'Time Talent Energy,' By Mankins and Garton
Adam Hartung: Do businesses need to lessen the CFO role, and heighten the CHRO role?
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
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