It is more than 50 years now since Peter Drucker wrote: ”The customer rarely buys what the company thinks it is selling him”, but I still meet companies that need to be reminded of this fact. Customers don’t buy products; they buy solutions to their problems. It is not the product in itself, but the… Continue reading What are your values?
Category: Innovation Management
Welcome to the Go-go land
Last week I spent a few days in Dublin, which has become the European capital of IT and social media companies with Google’s European head quarter and Facebook just around the corner from each other. One of the high points of the trip was to experience the famous Google culture and see what the fuzz… Continue reading Welcome to the Go-go land
How might we
Ever wonder why you get stuck trying to come up with new creative ideas? Perhaps it is time you focus your communication on three very important words: How Might We. The more common words to use when trying to come up with new ideas or new ways of doing thing, such as “How can we… Continue reading How might we
Innovation-in-action: Hop-on Hop-off buses
Examples of how industries, companies and organisations are using innovation to compete. I’ve recently made several weekend trips in Europe and have for the first time in years been using sightseeing buses. It has been both a surprising and pleasant experience, leading me to reflect on the changes/ innovations this industry has introduced over the… Continue reading Innovation-in-action: Hop-on Hop-off buses
The Innovators Dilemma
It is not the strongest of the species that survive nor the most intelligent but the one most responsive to change. – Clarence Darrow Now in the 21st century we live in hyper competitive markets. This means that whatever product or service your company can come up with and bring to the market, someone else… Continue reading The Innovators Dilemma
Delivering Happiness
About a year ago I read Tony Hsieh’s book Delivering Happiness, A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose. For those of you who don’t know who Tony Hsieh is he was the founder of LinkExchange, which he sold to Microsoft for $265 million at the age of 24, and then turned Zappos.com, an online shoe… Continue reading Delivering Happiness
Do you know your customers’ needs?
In a world of hyper competition and commoditization, it is necessary for companies to find their “sweet spot” i.e. where your company meet customers’ needs in a way in which your competitors cannot. But how do you know what your customers need? Most companies realize that they can not just “push” out their products to… Continue reading Do you know your customers’ needs?
The History of the Internet
AVG is an online security company from the Netherlands, providing software and services to secure devices, data and people. Recently they published an infograph that covers the history of the internet, including all of the most important milestones since 1969: from the first virus to the birth of Google and 2.4 billion Internet users. Below… Continue reading The History of the Internet
Some reflections from Harry´s Bar in Venice
I visited Venice in March 2011. The visit was while we in Bearing were working on the Place Management book, masterly authored by Christer Asplund and edited by Jacob Ikkala, and during the visit my thoughts were occupied with feedback on the important topics of the manuscript. I included some of the thoughts in this blog… Continue reading Some reflections from Harry´s Bar in Venice
Hyper Competition and the Speed of Change
Yesterday, in the weekend issue Friday – Sunday July 22-22, 2012, Wall Street Journal published a two page article about the decline and fall of Nokia. The title was “Nokia loses Mobile Lead Amid Bad Call on Phones”, with the sub title “Corporate Culture Lavished Funds on R&D but Squandered Chances to Bring Innovations to… Continue reading Hyper Competition and the Speed of Change