Innovation2 min read
Be Flexible, and Forward Thinking – Office Depot, Apple
Flexibility now trumps static plans. Firms like Accenture and Apple lead with adaptive strategies.
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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Leadership4 min read
Be Careful About Listening to Your Customers – Gm, Ford, Merrill Lynch, Harley, Etc.
The #1 selling vehicle in the USA for several years was the Ford F Series pick-up, a gas user. For all 3 manufacturers their large SUVs were not only big sellers, but huge profit producers.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation3 min read
Be Adaptive or Go the Way of Mr. Wagoner at Gm
Management must adapt to disruptions. GM's failure shows execution alone isn't enough; innovation is key.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership6 min read
Ballmer Resigning – Next?
The market started going mobile 10 years ago. As Apple and Google promoted increased mobility, Microsoft tried to defend & extend its PC stronghold.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Investment3 min read
Bah Humbug Investors in Retail: as Goes Sears, So Will Go Most Traditional Retailers
Sears recently announced it is closing another big batch of stores.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation6 min read
Baffle ’em With Bulls**t – Forget Kraft
Kraft’s CEO Irene Rosenfeld is splitting the company after years of acquisitions failed to drive real growth or innovation.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Strategy1 min read
Avoiding a Crash – Boeing, Embraer, Bombardier
The reason to really be wary of Boeing isn't just this one plane.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership7 min read
Avoid the 3 Card Monte – Sell Abbott
The pharmaceutical company, (gee, I thought that's what Abbott was?) yet to be named, will spin out on its own
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership6 min read
Avoid Value Traps – Sell Dell and Hewlett Packard
The argument is as simple as both companies were once growing, but growth slowed and now they are more mature companies migrating from products into services.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership5 min read
Avoid Succumbing to Conventional Wisdom – Target & Pershing Square
The worst thing Target could do is try to be Wal-Mart. Nobody can beat WalMart at being WalMart. And WalMart has its own troubles, including saturation of its stores as well as declining customer interest in its low-cost format.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Investment4 min read
Avoid Gladiator Wars – Invest in David, Make Money Like Apple
In 2000, Apple could have chosen to keep pouring money into the Mac.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership5 min read
Attacking Culture to Address Problems – British Petroleum
That scenario is a death sentence. We haven't yet seen what new regulations, taxes and restrictions – nor the eventual cost of 20 years of dead seas charged to BP and its industry brethren – will cost.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation9 min read
As Immelt Leaves Ge, Investors and Employees Have Little to Cheer
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Technology4 min read
As Goes Apple So Goes the Nation – the Rise of the Digital Service Economy
Tesla has done something everyone thought impossible.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation1 min read
Are you adaptable like facebook?
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation4 min read
Are the Cloud and Iot Making Pcs, Laptops and Tablets Irrelevant?
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Future4 min read
Are the Cloud and IoT Making PCs, Laptops and Tablets Irrelevant?
The adjustments offer a fix to IDC's historical underestimates of PC and tablet sales declines, while simultaneously underestimating sales growth in smartphones.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership1 min read
Are You the Retiring Type?
The pension Challenge affects us as individuals. It requires we as individuals find some White Space to rethink our retirement plans.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation4 min read
Are You a Player, or a Spectator? – Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Intel
Tech is shifting from PCs to mobile and cloud. Adapting early is key to staying competitive and innovating.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation4 min read
Are You Relevant? – Xerox, United, Airlines
Companies lose relevance without growth. Focus on future markets and innovation to stay competitive.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership5 min read
Are You More Like Rupert Murdoch Than You Think?
Investors should take note; three bankruptcies killed 2 of the organizations the ex-cons led and investors were wiped out at Sun Times which barely remains in business.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation5 min read
Are You Enchanting? Guy Kawasaki Tells How to Be Like Apple
Success comes from enchanting customers with likability and trust, as Guy Kawasaki's "Enchantment" suggests.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership6 min read
Are Markets Efficient? To Survive Forget That Myth.
The good professor's point of view was that he observed a lot of companies that were efficient which didn't survive, and several not all that efficient that did survive.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Culture3 min read
Are American’s Abusing Social Security Disability?
The number of Americans collecting disability is rising at an unprecedented and alarming rate.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
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