Innovation2 min read
Ahh..the Power of White Space
Virgin is like Apple in this regard as well. From a recording company Virgin is now an airline, a retailer, and a cell phone company.
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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Strategy4 min read
Afghanistan’s Fall Was Foreseeable
The only way you can remain vital is to constantly grow. You have to keep up with economic growth (3%/yr) and overall inflation (3%/year) just to remain even – without any return to shareholders.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Technology4 min read
Adopt Market Shifts – Television, Telephone, Apple’s New Products
Apple is bringing out products that align with the direction the market is now heading.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation5 min read
Admit Shift Happened – Then Invest in the Future, Not the Past
Phoenix Principle investors focus on future value and company positioning, not market averages or short-term trends.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation2 min read
Addressing Challenges
Walgreens, despite market changes and fierce competition, has avoided a growth stall by embracing White Space projects like in-store clinics and digital services
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership1 min read
Adam Hartung in Businessweek
Adam wrote to BusinessWeek in an effort to overcome this traditional, but wrong interpretation.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Investment1 min read
Adam Hartung Quoted in Investor’s Business Daily
Steve Ellis divulged from a recent Bain study that 24% more firms rose from the bottom to the top of their industries during the 2001 receission than the following sunnier economic period.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
Act to Meet Challenges, Not Defend the Past – Microsoft
The Vista launch was a disaster. A joke. Techies resoundingly ignored the product – as did their employers. Because Vista was so weak, Microsoft is looking to launch yet another operating system – just 2 years after Vista was launched.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation1 min read
Acquiring Right
Viola – in a master stroke the new Chairman of the 200 year old exchange has acted to revitalize the NYSE by buying Archipelago.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation2 min read
A Tale of Two Turnarounds
Last January (2004) Motorola undertook a pattern interrupt and launched a host of new white space initiatives.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Technology2 min read
A Tale of 2 Charts – Aol and Apple
Apple has only about 2% market share in mobile phones. On the one hand, this could appear nearly immaterial. But if we look at usage, we see a very different story
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation2 min read
A Stumbling Giant
Lots of companies do what Microsoft is doing. During the heyday, high growth environment for PCs, from the 1980s through the 1990s, Microsoft developed a Success Formula
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Innovation6 min read
A Salute to Immigrants, America’s Unsung National Treasure
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
A Problem of Riches – Apple
the biggest issue at Apple is what to do with all its cash!
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
A Place to Grow
the globe is no longer dominated by an industrial economy. Fewer and fewer people are employed in industrial production.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership2 min read
A New Life for Napster?
One of the basic tenets of the Phoenix Principle is “be distinct or be extinct,” and Napster is not yet distinct.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership4 min read
A Gale Force Wind
the only person who created an airline that made money was an attorney, Herb Kelleher, by founding Southwest.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Investment6 min read
A Federal Reserve Primer and Why You Don’t Need to Worry About Interest Rates Today
The Fed was originally created barely 100 years ago (1913) to try to create a more stable monetary system. But this didn’t work too well in the beginning, which led to the Great Depression.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
A Drunk Can Spoil the Party
Media is now losing money, and forced to make debt payments, while its primary competitors (the Murdoch-controlled Sky and British Telecom) are in far healthier financial shape.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Future7 min read
A Christmas Carole 2015 – the Ebenezer 1% and Cratchit Middle Class
Mr. Scrooge’s former partner, Mr. Jakob Marley, visits Mr. Scrooge in a dream and reminds him that, in fact, there was a lot more to his life, and wealth creation, than just Ebenezer’s toils.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership6 min read
A Call to Action for Better Board Governance of Strategy
The report pulls no punches in its strong recommendations for changing the Board’s involvement in strategy
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Leadership3 min read
A Blog and Book to Consider
The book is a great read as well. Not pompous (although the author has a mountain of experience to draw upon), very matter-of-fact, and incisive when cutting into multiple myths that detract from performance of functional groups as well as the corporation overall.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Technology6 min read
A Bitcoin is Worth $4,000–why You Probably Should Not Own One
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
Future6 min read
A Bitcoin Is Worth $4,000--Why You Probably Should Not Own One
Bitcoins are a crypto-currency. That means they can be used like a currency, but don't physically exist like dollar bills.
Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025
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