What Can Businesses Learn From Buglers?
What does summer mean to you? It might mean beach books, lazy afternoons spent poolside, fun-filled camp days (memories of yours or sending your kids off to theirs), cook-outs and vacations. With a bit...
View ArticleMaking Innovation a Core Capability
As innovation has gone from buzzword to must-have at companies of all types and sizes, I find that many leaders remain mystified as to how to make it work within their own organizations. Drawing on...
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5 Tips for Avoiding Communication Breakdown
If you haven’t heard the audio of AOL chief Tim Armstrong firing an employee during an all-hands meeting that was ostensibly meant to reassure nervous workers after the company announced its plans for...
View Article#justaddinnovation
Great innovations come not only from inventing something truly new, but also from combining two or more things that already exist today in interesting new ways to create something the world hasn’t seen...
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Agility: Why Digital Demands a New Way to Work
Digital Transformation is a popular boardroom topic and the subject of report after report after study after report. But what does it really take to turn so much talk into purposeful walk? My...
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Disruption: Hack Yourself or Get Cut Down
Last week, my friend and ace digital thinker Ian Patterson shared his story about introducing agility into his business. Today, he’s back to tell another firsthand tale, and this one is all about what...
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50 Questions to Spark Strategic Innovation
I believe that strategy is change and I know that change can be hard — but getting started shouldn’t be. You just need to be willing to ask the right kinds of questions, the answers to which will...
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Five Times to Say ‘No’ to Strategy – and One Time to Say ‘Yes.’
Today, Ian Patterson continues is Five Days Delivering Digital Transformation series with a topic near and dear to my heart. A topic that transcends digital and gets at the core of business. Day 4 is...
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The Great Content Caper
Where does the time go? It’s been a full two months since we last checked in with Ian Patterson, wrapping up the fourth day in his Five Days Delivering Digital Transformation series of guest posts....
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Beyond Knowledge: Toward a Connections Economy (2008)
As part of my A Decade in Digital series, I’ll be reposting some older articles from my original blog — articles that date back as far as 2006 but contain ideas that to some extent (and to me, at...
View ArticleThe Future Is Not Now
The future is, by definition, in the future. Sounds obvious enough, so why did I think it would be worth pointing this out? I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard or read proclamations that “the...
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Love Your Haters Redux (2007)
Every now and then, I stumble upon a timeless concept that remains relevant for years after I first blogged about it. The idea of loving your haters is one of those concepts. So with Valentine’s Day...
View ArticleCan Mass Media Companies Become Micro-Mavens?
A recent Nieman Journalism Lab post by industry analyst and Newsonomics author Ken Doctor inspired GigaOM contributor Matthew Ingram to posit that the future of mass media depends on the ability of...
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Will Holoportation Revolutionize the Way We Work?
My love affair with the virtual office began more than a decade ago, but truly blossomed in 2007 when I became a partner at the marketing consultancy, crayon — a company (perhaps) most famous for...
View ArticleMy Telia Connect2Business Digital Transformation Talk (Full Video)
Last week I had the opportunity to deliver the closing keynote at Telia’s Connect2Business customer conference in Stockholm. Telia streamed the entire event live and you can watch every session...
View ArticleWhat Can Businesses Learn From Buglers?
What does summer mean to you? It might mean beach books, lazy afternoons spent poolside, fun-filled camp days (memories of yours or sending your kids off to theirs), cook-outs and vacations. With a bit...
View ArticleMaking Innovation a Core Capability
As innovation has gone from buzzword to must-have at companies of all types and sizes, I find that many leaders remain mystified as to how to make it work within their own organizations. Drawing on...
View ArticleThe Future Is Not Now
The future is, by definition, in the future. Sounds obvious enough, so why did I think it would be worth pointing this out? I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard or read proclamations that “the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
50 Questions to Spark Strategic Innovation
I believe that strategy is change and I know that change can be hard — but getting started shouldn’t be. You just need to be willing to ask the right kinds of questions, the answers to which will...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Beyond Knowledge: Toward a Connections Economy (2008)
As part of my A Decade in Digital series, I’ll be reposting some older articles from my original blog — articles that date back as far as 2006 but contain ideas that to some extent (and to me, at...
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