Swim At Your Own Risk
This is a story about navigating dangerous waters in a changing world. Survivors test the waters. Swim at your own risk.
growth agenda
Aspire Higher
Want market leading growth? You don’t need a benevolent dictator at the helm. You don’t need a Silicon Valley address. You don’t need high technology, and you don’t need magic. What you need is discipline. Follow these eight steps to embed robust innovation into your growth strategy.
Plan for And
How does your company plan for the future? Rather than just conventional business strategy, add an integrated innovation strategy. Your best growth is balanced growth.
Ask The Right Question
My client posed a hard question. I answered it correctly. And in doing so, I failed miserably.
Hypocrites could have spared me my hypocrisy: First Do No Harm.
Lead Innovation Top Down and Outside-In
Stop putting out fires. Start innovating from the top-down, and outside-in.
Win the war for the future
All successful growth models share these seven essential characteristics.
Whose job is innovation, anyway?
How should your organization lead innovation? The answer isn’t black and white.
Lesson 8. Platforms place smart bets
Smart investors optimize returns by balancing risk. Spread your growth investments across a portfolio of possibilities. Consider this mix, across three horizons of risk & return.
Just don’t look down
Growth platforms support multiple innovations. Why just create a new solution when you can build the foundation for many?
Roger Mader 