FUTURE RACE

Oct 03, 2016 | Anthony Mills

Each year businesses spend an aggregate of $40B on market research.   This is largely in an effort to mine new insights about customers' unmet needs, or to test out new ideas to see if a large enough segment of their customers (or of the general population) will react positively to them.

Businesses have begun to realize however that ...

Jun 05, 2016 | Anthony Mills

I have been a student of innovation for more years now than I care to count.   One of the things that has always made innovation so enjoyable to me is the fact that every business discipline seems to believe they "own" innovation, a premise from which they have ...

Feb 20, 2016 | Erika Jacobi

In today's volatile business environment, companies need be able to react quickly to unforeseen circumstances and to turn challenges into innovative opportunities.   Mid–sized and larger organizations often struggle immensely with finding an organization design that allows them to grow and stay agile at the same time. ...

Jan 18, 2016 | Anthony Mills

In our work with business leaders around the world, we spend a lot of time talking about the organizational philosophies and cultures needed to guide and nurture innovation in their business.   One of the key questions we are often asked is, "how can we drive engagement and ownership within and across our business for these new things we are trying to do?" ...

Nov 28, 2015 | Erika Jacobi

Deep organizational transformation is a combination of changed processes, procedures and behavior.   While changing procedures may be relatively easy, transforming processes often stalls at missing consequential behavioral change.

A Different Dance ...

Nov 15, 2015 | Anthony Mills

Many words have been penned, and many pages written, about that elusive piece of the business enterprise we call "culture".   Culture is to a business what the persona and soul are to an individual.   It defines who it is, how it thinks, what it does, and what are and are not the right ways for it to move into the future.   When strategies sputter and fail ...