CEO / Managing Partner - Spark Partners
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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the USA is increasingly an urban country. Every election we are reminded that while most the people live in cities, the electoral map is by state
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Yahoo! got itself into this problem by management trying to Lock-in on a Success Formula and then Defend & Extend it in a dynamic marketplace.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Businesses cannot survive for long depending on heroic leaders and yet the business press constantly celebrates them.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Blockbuster’s actions won’t work over the long-term because they aren’t addressing the challenge.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Netflix, the leading online DVD rental business, just announced a price cut in an attempt to double the size of its business (a bad move, but that’s another story…).
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
"Rupert Murdoch to remove News Corp's content from Google in months" is the London Telegraph headline.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The “marginal revenue”, is that last 10%. What the company achieves “on the margin.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The U.S. is confirmed to be headed into a recession (if not already there [article here].) But beyond the U.S., the economies of the developed economies in 2009 is expected to grow .6% -the weakest since 1982.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The marketplace has been shifting dramatically since 2001. In everything from manufacturing to financial services to commodities.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Donald Trump has been leading his candidate competitors not because he was wildly successful
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Tattoos, once overlooked, are becoming a popular and cost-effective choice in mainstream advertising, challenging traditional graphic norms.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The common viewpoint is that Republicans are good for business, which is good for the economy.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Most companies fail to grow because they focus on sustaining existing products rather than investing in disruptive innovation, as seen with Kodak and Microsoft.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Success Formulas are very powerful. And successful entrepreneurs often have them so locked-in that there’s no other consideration.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The signs of this shift are everywhere. From the complete collapse of Circuit City and Sharper Image to the flat sales, reduced number of U.S. outlets and falling per-store numbers at Wal-Mart.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The company’s Success Formula has become obsolete and they are struggling financially
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Instead of just thinking about this situation as a couple of bad apples who broke the rules, we would invite Belo to take a hard look at their business.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Apple became much more as it succeeded with the iPod, iTunes and iPhone. But many analysts, business news pundits and investors wanted all the credit to go to CEO Steve Jobs.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Newspapers are not a growing business. But that doesn’t mean the local scribner is going to be allowed an eloquent and profitable decline.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
The article talks about the dramatically shifting marketplace (love that language!), and how these two hardware oriented companies are trying to avoid the Sun Microsystems finality by getting into services.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Jeff Bezos' purchase of The Washington Post could revitalize the struggling newspaper industry through innovation and transformation, similar to his success with Amazon.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
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