New Business Models:

Opportunity-driven Growth

Pursuing Business Opportunities

Overcoming Resistance to Change, Starting Experimentations and Moving Forward – Fast!

18 Leadership Lessons from Colin Powell

• Once the information is in the 40 to 70 range, go with your gut. Don't wait until you have enough facts to be 100% sure, because by then it is almost always too late.... More

SWOT Analysis – a Balanced Perspective

Strengths – Weaknesses – Opportunities – Threats (SWOT) analysis helps you balance idealism and pragmatism, and obtain a balanced perspective of your internal strengths and weaknesses and external opportunities and threats to develop an effective strategy... More

Organize the Projects

There are different approaches to organizing opportunity projects: creating an in-company venture, establishing a spin-out, turning the activity over to a line function, or having the CEO as its champion. Once the opportunity/project has reached a certain size, you can organize the project under a business unit/division, with some kind of bottom-line responsibility. In any case, it is of "fundamental importance to have those people who identified the opportunity, and are thus very committed to it, given a role in the start-up."¹

Managing Innovation vs.

Managing Operations

Innovation is a learning process, the product of which is new applied knowledge. Operations is an established process driven by existing knowledge.

The primary difference between operations and innovation is uncertainty. It eludes planning, prediction and containment... More

The Art of Innovation: 9 Truths

By: Guy Kawasaki

• “Let a hundred flowers blossom.” I stole this from Chairman Mao. Innovators need to be flexible about how people use their products.

  Avon created Skin So Soft to soften skin, but when parents used it as an insect repellant, Avon went with the flow. Apple thought it created a spreadsheet/database/wordprocessing computer; but, come to find out, customers used it as a desktop publishing machine. The lesson is: Don't be proud. Let a hundred flowers blossom... More

Act To Create More Opportunities

Consider all opportunities. Make the right choice. Focus on it, and take action. When you follow up on the opportunities you take responsibility and you free yourself to create more positive situations for you. Things start to happen faster when you follow up on opportunities.⁴

New Technology Development: Dealing With Ambiguity of the Fuzzy Front End...

Timing Is Everything...

Overcome Resistance to Change...

Energize Employees...

Energizing Employees: Suggestion Box...

Cultivate the Culture of Speed...

Taking Action...

Rapid Experimentation...

Freedom To Fail...

Dynamic Strategy...